Religion in the early Nazi milieu : towards a greater understanding of 'racist culture'

Detailed study of the views on religion in one of the major antisemitic groups in the 1920s, the German Socialist Party, which had a number of significant connections to the NSDAP. It demonstrates that views on religion in the early Nazi milieu were extremely diverse, but commonly adhered to notions of race and a racial spirituality that amounted to a kind of 'ethnotheism'. It argues that concepts of religion in völkisch groups at the time, including the NSDAP, have to principally understood as part of a particular and extreme 'racist culture'.