Daily remember that the third Reich was NOT meant as a continuation of the first and the second Reiche. NatSoc rejected the old pre-1918 aristocratic ideals and championed a revolution, a new (or rather an older, more primordial), more balanced aristocratic ideal for Germany.

"It& #39;s is the general prevailing view that the pagan Germanic nobility slowly evolved overtime into the Christian German nobility (...) This view overlooks a fundamental fact: That the nobility of the Germanic pagans and the nobility of the Germanic peoples converted to ...

... Christianity no longer had anything to do with one another in regards to the essence of their views on nobility, being essentially opposed."

R. Walther Darré, Neuadel aus Blut und Boden, 1930