Nazi totalitarian ideology demanded logical consistency, not idealistic commitment.

Evidence

The Nazi author Andreas Pfenning explicitly rejects the notion that the SA were fighting for an “ideal” or were prompted by and “idealistic experience.” Their “basic experience came into existance in the course of the struggle.” “Gemeinschaft und Staatswissenschaft,” in Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft, Band 96. Translation quoted from Ernst Fraenkel, The Dual State, New York and London, 1941. p. 192. From the extensive literature issued in pamphlet form by the main indoctrination center (Hauptamt-Schulungsamt) of the SS, it is quite evident that the word “idealism” has been studiously avoided. Not idealism was demanded of SS members, but “utter logical consistency in all question of ideology and the ruthless pursuit of the political struggle” (Werner Best, Die deutsche Polizei, 1941, p. 99). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2547

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the toolkit concept of ideology as a self-consistent system of assumptions; also echoes the reader’s standing interest in how movements discipline members via consistency rather than belief. — connects to: Fervently held supremacist demands remain logically consistent with the ruling ideology
• DEFINE: Distinguishes totalitarian ideological commitment from ‘idealism’ — commitment to logical consistency of the ideology itself, not to ideals.