Nazism grew out of the idea that the state was an organism functioning according to biological "laws." The most basic idea structuring the Nazi movement was the "law of the immune system," the bio-chemically based system operative within each organism acting automatically to reject or destroy entities identified as foreign or "not self."

The Final Solution enacted an immunological fantasy. According to this Nazi fantasy, genocide represented the "automatic" response of the German body politic to a "law of nature:" the national organism reacting to reject or destroy alien cells (e. g., Jewish bacteria) that had entered its bloodstream.

1. Hitler in Mein Kampf: "Could anyone believe that Germany alone was not subject to the same laws as all other human organisms?"
2. Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche in The Permission to Destroy Life Unworthy of Life (1920) described the state as an "organism with its own laws and rights, much like one self-contained human organism" which "in the interest of the welfare of the whole—as we doctors know—abandons and rejects parts or particles that have become worthless or dangerous."
3.  Gottfried Neese: "The people form a true organism--a being which leads its own life and follows its own laws."
4. Rudolph Ramm, 1934: "Nationalism Socialism is nothing but applied biology (Lifton, p. 31). Dr. Johann S. "We (the Nazis) wanted to put into effect the laws of life, which are biological laws."