German race-thinking arose as a substitute for missing political nationhood

Evidence

Hitler frequently commented on the relationship between state and party, and always emphasized that not the state, but the race, or the “united folk community,” was of primary importance (cf. the afore-quoted speech, reprinted as annex to the Tischgespräche). In his speech at the Nuremberg Parteitag of 1935, he gave this theory its most succinct expression: “It is not the state that commands us, but we who command the state.” It is self-evident that, in practice, such powers of command are possible only if the institutions of the party remain independent from those of the state. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2780 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race-thinking preceded and differs from racism as a full ideology; German race-thinking arose to unite people against foreign domination, unlike French class weapon; German and French race-thinking served opposite political purposes (+4 more)

Related

• Nazi ideology subordinated the state to the racial folk community (similarity 0.90)
• Pan-German ideology replaced universal humanity with tribal solidarity (similarity 0.90)
• German race-thinking arose to unite people against foreign domination, unlike French class weapon (similarity 0.86)
• German race-thinking emerged to unify and resist foreign rule, not to split the nation. (similarity 0.85)
• Nazism exploited a breakdown of state worship, not excessive state-worship. (similarity 0.83)
• Early German race-thinking was so entangled with nationalism that the two become nearly indistinguishable. (similarity 0.83)
• Nazism inverted the Prussian ideal by prioritizing party membership over state office (similarity 0.83)
• Racism was pan-European public opinion before it was German state doctrine (similarity 0.80)
• Race-thinking preceded and differs from racism as a full ideology (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• German and French race-thinking served opposite political purposes #expands (0.85)
• Peoples without states fell back on language and ethnicity as national identity #corroborates (0.85)
• Nazi ideology subordinated the state to the racial folk community #qualifies (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2780