In practice Nazism was dominated by the urge for power of its elite
and their commitment to xenophobia, racism and nationalism. The
urge to right the perceived wrong of the Versailles settlement of 1919
and strong nationalist feelings (shared by many Germans) was
elaborated into a nightmare doctrine. The right of an ’Aryan’ master
race to ‘living space’ to the East and to cleanse itself of ‘alien’
elements such as Gypsies and Iews as well as to eliminate any
mentally or physically defective specimens of their own race was
asserted. The attempt to implement a state based on these doctrines
resulted in the deaths of millions across the whole planet (the
Holocaust).