Nazism exploited a breakdown of state worship, not excessive state-worship.

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nazism inverted the Prussian ideal by prioritizing party membership over state office; Nazi ideology subordinated the state to the racial folk community — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2780; Nazism made the movement, not the state, the spiritual centre of totalitarianism — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1127

Related

• Nazism inverted the Prussian ideal by prioritizing party membership over state office (similarity 0.95)
• Nazi ideology subordinated the state to the racial folk community (similarity 0.92)
• Pan-German ideology replaced universal humanity with tribal solidarity (similarity 0.85)
• Nazism made the movement, not the state, the spiritual centre of totalitarianism (similarity 0.84)
• German race-thinking arose as a substitute for missing political nationhood (similarity 0.83)
• The Nazi state distributed the sovereign power to kill across all citizens (similarity 0.82)
• Nazi power structures overlapped deliberately, letting subordinates challenge rival fiefdoms. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Nazi ideology subordinated the state to the racial folk community #expands (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2780