interests of the German ’Volk’ (people) more completely than any
democratic process could do. It was also, in rhetoric at least, anti-
ca-pitalist — with capitalism seen as a Jewish conspiracy to rob the Volk of its birthright. The state was seen as the embodiment of the public good and clearly had the responsibility to organise the economy, the educational system and the whole of social and cultural life. A major emphasis of the movement was on the mobilisation of the German people through a single party using the modern technology of mass communication.