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Mittelstand
Germany's broad middle class of small business owners, farmers, and salaried professionals, a social group whose economic anxiety and fear of communism proved significant in Nazi electoral support.
Volksgemeinschaft
The Nazi concept of a racially pure "people's community" that transcended class divisions. It was used to promote national unity and justify the exclusion and persecution of Jews, Roma, and other "non-Aryans."