After the Nazis came to power, this concept gradually lost its importance and gave way to a general contempt for the German people (which the Nazis had always harbored but could not very well show publicly before) on one hand,fn52 and a great eagerness, on the other, to enlarge their own ranks from ‘Aryans’ of other nations, an idea which had played only a small role in the prepower stage of Nazi propaganda.fn53 The Volksgemeinschaft was merely the propagandistic preparation for an ‘Aryan’ racial society which in the end would have doomed all peoples, including the Germans.
