Nazi Party

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Nazi Party

“Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiterpartei” A right-wing, authoritarian, and nationalist German party founded in 1919 and led from 1921 by Hitler. It took power when Hitler was offered the post of chancellor in 1933 and dominated German life until its collapse at the end of World War II.
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Noun1.Nazi Party - the political party founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power by Hitler in 1933
party, political party - an organization to gain political power; "in 1992 Perot tried to organize a third party at the national level"
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The national populism - the volkisch ideology - expounded by the Nazis (the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or National Socialist German Workers' Party) - gained traction by playing on the fears of ordinary people who felt they'd been abandoned in the disastrous economic aftermath of the First World War, and were looking for someone to blame.
By what name were members of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei known?
It is much less known that Adolf Hitler himself was never in full support of this expression even tough it proved quite effective both before and after the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) takeover.

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