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Nazi Racial Policy and Anti-semitism The Nazis believed in the concept of race. All Germanic peoples were part of the Aryan race, tied together by their common language, culture, traditions and blood. The Nazis attempted to weld this group together into one community or Volk. The main ideal of the party was a classless society where everone was Aryan. In this way Hitler combined nationalism of a rascist kind and socialism. Racialism was neither new nor exclusively German. Anti-semitism was traditionally Christian. Pan-German groups had expounded similar ideas in the nineteenth century. According to these views, humanity was divided into races. Aryans, inferior races eg slavs and negoes and sub humans (Jews). When Hittler came to power on the 30th January 1933, they immediately took action against the Jews. Action included: April 1, 1933: A boycott of Jewish shops and businesses by the Nazis. April 7, 1933: