The Nazi PartyDuring the 1930s, the Nazi regime attempted to build what it believed to be a utopian society. The Nazis' rise to power can be seen as a modern revolution, in which their goal of creating an ideal Nazi Volksgemeinschaft (community of people) was achieved by carefully regulating all areas of German life. From arts and literature to sexual activity and race relations, the Nazi Party implemented legislation that limited what the German public could see, hear, read, do, and even think! The Nazis managed to maintain control over the masses through propaganda, codified and unwritten values ​​and destructive actions (The Night of Broken Glass) which effectively determined the conditions in which individuals had to live. The Nazi Party ensured its strength and continuity not only through legal measures (such as the elimination of other parties), but also by shaping a society that excluded certain groups from political influence, particularly women and Jews. Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Third Reich, gives two speeches that exemplify the Nazis' efforts to separate and even remove women and Jews from public life and discourage them from political participation. In his first speech, given on 8 September 1934, Hitler addressed the National Socialist women's section and expressed the Nazi opinion that the fundamental role of women was domestic and that their place was in the home. On January 30, 1937, Hitler gave a speech in Berlin on the importance of racial purity and, ultimately, the exclusion of Jews from German life. While these two discourses are in many ways explicitly different, they share a number of intriguing similarities. I will argue that these similarities are not simply coincidental… middle of the paper… legitimacy of separation based on racial disparities. Thus, gender shifts from a term that signals the two sexes, male and female, to a complex standard that indicates that a line needs to be drawn between groups of individuals if one of these groups is perceived as different and potentially disruptive. After years of oppression and racial cleansing, Nazism was finally destroyed by forces perhaps not determined by nature but certainly governed by humanity. Works Cited "Hitler's Speech to the National Socialist Women's Section" in Laws and Orders: Humanities and the Regulator of Society. Boston, Massachusetts: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2002. p. 276-277. “Racial Purity: Hitler Returns to the Overarching Theme of the National Socialist Program” in Laws and Orders: Humanities and the Regulator of Society. Boston, Massachusetts: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2002. p. 274-275.