Nazi ideology subordinated the state to the racial folk community

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the Nazi ideological primacy of race/folk over state — a load-bearing conceptual distinction for understanding totalitarian legal nihilism.
• XREF: Feeds the hegemony/common-sense toolkit: party-over-state inversion shows how authority is relocated away from formal legal-rational institutions. — connects to: German race-thinking arose as a substitute for missing political nationhood; Pan-German ideology replaced universal humanity with tribal solidarity; Nazism inverted the Prussian ideal by prioritizing party membership over state office (+6 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2780