National Socialism, most commonly in English referred to as Nazism and occasionally known as

Hitlerism or

German Fascism, is a

totalitarian

ethno-ultranationalist

third positionist ideology. He believes that the

state and as an extension society should be directly tied to the

Volksgemeinschaft (tr. 'folk, people's community'), a 'national community' of sorts based on a shared blood, culture, and ancestry among a group of people.