[Hawkeye90]

I have been reading into the ideal that was so strongly promoted by National

Socialist Germany. Volksgemeinschaft, a unified German people fighting

under a banner of nationalism and class struggle, the attempt to unify the raw

German people into a finished product of National Socialism. A people fighting

to ensure they would never face shame like that of November 1918 again.

Volksgemeinschaft was held in importance by the average German soldier, it

was something that they had been indoctrinated with since The Nazi Party

took power in 1932. Even in the most desperate of times these ideals

remained a crucial motivation to the German soldier, many of them dying for

"The New Germany".


My question is, was the political and ideological motivation part of what made the German

Military so effective? It takes more the just training to create an effective

soldier. Was the idea of Volksgemeinschaft what made the average German solider

so committed and disciplined?

Would like to hear your comments.