The Nazi PartyDuring the 1930s, the Nazi regime attempted to build what it believed to be a utopian society. The Nazi 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 strictly 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 (Night of Broken Glass) that actually determined the conditions in which individuals had to live. The Nazi Party ensured its own strength and continued existence 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 the Jews. Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Third Reich, delivers two speeches that illustrate the Nazis' efforts to separate and even exclude women and Jews from public life and discourage them from participating politically. In the first speech, delivered on September 8, 1934, Hitler addressed the National Socialist women's section and expressed the Nazi view that a woman's most fundamental role is domestic and her place is in her 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. Although these two discourses are explicitly different in many ways, they share a number of intriguing similarities. I will argue that these similarities are not simply a coincidence...... middle of paper...... justification for separation based on racial disparities. Thus, gender shifts from a term denoting the two sexes, male and female, to a complex norm indicating that a line should be drawn between groups of individuals if one of those 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. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2002. p. 276-277. “Racial Purity: Hitler Returns to the Dominant Theme of the National Socialist Program” in Laws and Orders: Humanities and the Regulation of Society. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2002.p. 274-275.