Hitler conceived of the German nation is an enormous body; a gigantic organism. All else followed from this fantasy of Germany as an actual body. The goal of Nazism was to maintain the health of the German body--so it could live forever.
Hitler: “This body formed by the people must secure in the future the maintenance of this body which is the people.”
The problem was that the German body contained forces within working toward disintegration. The Jew, Hitler said, was a "ferment of decomposition" among people--and "in the broader sense a dissolver of human culture."
In Hitler's imagination, the Jew was causing the German body politic to decompose. Hitler's objective was to "build up" the body politic by bringing the German people together into a single "block of steel." In the future, no one would be able to "shatter" the German Reich; to "tear it asunder."
The Nazi movement was a struggle of "life against death." This was a struggle of the "national creative will" against "international disintegration;" a question of the "restoration to health of peoples."
To create a cohesive body politic, Hitler declared, the entire German nation had to be brought to a unity of spirit and will. Bringing men nearer to one another, they had to be thrown into the great melting pot, the nation, so that they could be "purified and welded one to another."
Hitler projected the force of disintegration within the body politic into the Jew. Jews symbolized disbelief in the immortality of the Reich; belief that all bodies die.
Hitler imagined that the human body and the body politic were fused into one. The Jew symbolized a force working toward separation and separateness: tearing apart self and nation.
Hitler projected his own body into the nation and internalized the nation into his body. The identification of his own body with the national body meant that the Jew was experienced by Hitler as if within his own body; as a destructive force within his body,
To maintain the life of the body politic (to maintain Hitler's life) required that Jews--the principle of death--be killed.
Hitler aspired to "weld" the German people "one to another." The mass rallies would create a people so closely bound together that separation would be impossible.
“Our movement alone," Hitler declared, "was capable of creating a national organism,” The Jew, on the other hand, was described Jew as he "demon of the disintegration of peoples;" symbol of the "unceasing destruction of their lives."
Hitler's mission was to save Germany from death: “We may be inhumane, but if we rescue Germany we have achieved the greatest deed in the world.”
The dream of oneness was dream of the nation as a single "substance"--with each individual constituting part of this substance. The Jews were conceived as bacteria because they were within the national organism, but could not fuse with it. Jews were foreign bodies within the body politic.
Hitler declared to his German youth: “You are flesh of our flesh, blood of our blood. You are all one, belonging to me.” Hitler imagined that he and the German people constituted a single body.
The mass-rallies, for Hitler, substantiated the existence of an actual German body politic; the moment of its creation. This gigantic "living organism" that came into being at Nuremberg acted in accord with the will of Hitler. Hitler was "dictated" the movements of this body.
Hitler's will arose out of the will of the people. In submitting to Hitler, the people were submitting to their own will contained within Hitler's will.
Hitler's fantasy--the Nazi dream--was that of Germany as real organism; a "substance of flesh and blood." Nazism meant the union of all Germans into a "mystical body"--with Hitler as head.