No nazismo, temos um fenômeno difícil de submeter à análise racional. Sob um líder que falava em tom apocalíptico de poder ou destruição mundiais, e um regime fundado numa ideologia absolutamente repulsiva de ódio racial, um dos países mais cultural e economicamente avançados da Europa planejou a guerra e lançou uma conflagração mundial que matou mais de 50 milhões de pessoas".

KERSHAW, Ian, 1993, p.3-4, apud HOBSBAWM, Eric. A era dos extremos.

São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1993, p.113.

Em linhas gerais, podemos caracterizar a ideologia nazista como:

a) marxista e pacifista.

b) nacionalista e anticomunista.

c) racista e internacionalista.

d) estadista e anticapitalista.

e) nacionalista e pluripartidarista.

The nazi ideology can be best described as being nationalist, for the nation Germany and its Third Reich was considered by Hitler as the one and only true nation that was destined to control the world.

It was also anticommunist because communism was the opposite of German nationalism, because the former bared the universal and international character of world revolution that communists were planning. We shouldn´t forget that, especially in the beginning, the Russian communist revolution was international orientated. With other words, the Russian communists were exactly the opposite of Hitler´s Germany: The communist believed in the international revolution that by change happened to have chosen Russia as its first country; Hitler´s ideology was the German nation and its people.