Visions of community in Nazi Germany : social engineering and private lives When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933 they promised to create a new harmonious society under the leadership of the Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. The concept of volksgemeinschaft the peoples community enshrined the Nazis vision of society; a society based on racist social Darwinist anti democratic and nationalist thought. This book scrutinizes volksgemeinschaft as the Nazis central vision of community