161. What characterized the National Socialist (Nazi) state? A policy of …

Answer options

1. of state racism
2. of freedom of expression
3. of general freedom of religion
4. of the development of democracy

Explanation

The Nazi state was a totalitarian Führer regime whose core was state-organized racial policy (Nuremberg Laws, so-called Aryan paragraph, compulsory sterilization law) implemented through administrative coercion, police terror, and genocidal violence. Freedom of expression and religion were effectively abolished by the Reichstag Fire Decree, the Gleichschaltung of all institutions, and preventive detention; pluralist democracy was destroyed by the 1933 Enabling Act and the dismantling of parliament and federalism. The Basic Law deliberately counters this legacy with militant democracy, the inviolability of human dignity (Art. 1(1) GG), the anti-discrimination clause (Art. 3(3) GG), and the eternity clause (Art. 79(3) GG).