In Leviathan (1651), Hobbes stated that the way to create a Commonwealth is to “unite the multitude in one and the same person.” The image below (left) conveys Hobbes’ idea. The bodies of the King's subjects are united within the body of the King--creating one gigantic human being.

The Nuremberg rallies (see below right) constituted the fulfillment of Hobbes' fantasy of national unity: union of "the multitude in one and the same person." Hitler proclaimed to his youth: “You are flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood. You are all one, belonging to me.”

Hitler stated that his movement conceived of Germany as a "corporate body, as a single organism." There could not be a "single cell" that was not responsible for the health of this "organic being."

At Nuremberg, Hitler fulfilled his dream: Hobbes' fantasy. It was as if each man gathered together in the stadium was the cell of a gigantic organism.

Hitler was never happier than when at a Nuremberg rally. He imagined that each and every human being gathered in the space was bound to his own body. Each human being was part of his body. 

Hitler was head of this body. The members of this body--cells of the national organism--abandoned their own wills to internalize the will of Hitler: do with us what you will.

The frontispiece of Leviathan depicts a man whose torso and arms are composed of tiny individual persons crowded closely together.

A massive rally at Nuremberg (1937) composed of tens-of-thousands of men crowded closely together.