![]() The Nazis did not originally refer to themselves as "Nazis," and instead used the official term, Nationalsozialisten ("National Socialists"). The term Nazi is derived from the first two syllables, as pronounced in German, of the official name of the German Nazi Party, the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. It consists of a loose collection of ideas and positions: extreme nationalism, racism, eugenics, totalitarianism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-communism, and limits to freedom of religion. Nazism is not a precise, theoretically grounded ideology. Hitler joined the party in September 1919, and became propaganda boss, renaming the party April 1, 1920, and becoming party leader July 29, 1921. On January 5, 1919, the party was founded as the German Workers' Party (German: Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) by Anton Drexler. ![]() It also refers to the policies adopted by the NSDAP government of Germany (1933–1945), a period in German history known as Nazi Germany (German: Nazizeit, literally "Nazi time") or the Third Reich (German: Drittes Reich). ![]() Nazism or Naziism, officially called National Socialism ( German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the ideology of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( National Socialist German Workers Party, or NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. ![]() Nazi political parties and movements outside Germany ![]()
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