Nazi Party
Third Reich rulers
The Nazi Party was the German political movement led by Adolf Hitler that controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Its full name was the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei).
The party promoted fascism, extreme nationalism, antisemitism, and racial ideology that culminated in the Holocaust.
The Nazi Party rose to power during the economic chaos of the Weimar Republic.
Today, Nazi Party often appears in historical discussions of totalitarianism and genocide.
Ultranationalist dictatorial political system
- antisemitismBigotry toward Jewish people
- racial purityIdeology of ethnic exclusivity
- LebensraumFascist territorial expansion doctrine
- eugenicsControlled human reproduction theory
nationalism · Mein Kampf · swastika · propaganda · master race · blood and soil · social Darwinism · scapegoating
Nazi Germany's totalitarian leader
- GoebbelsThird Reich propaganda minister
- inner circleExclusive group of confidants
- high commandSenior military leadership
- war criminalsViolators of armed conflict
Hitler's totalitarian German state
- WehrmachtNazi Germany's armed forces
- LuftwaffeGerman military aviation
- SudetenlandCzech border territory, 1938
- Munich Agreement1938 Czechoslovakia partition treaty
Operation Barbarossa · Kristallnacht · Eastern Front · Afrika Korps · Battle of Britain · Normandy · Stalingrad · D-Day
Unchecked single-ruler government
- FührerSupreme leader title
- GestapoNazi secret police
- secret policeClandestine state security apparatus
- censorshipOfficial content restriction
surveillance · Goebbels · one-party state · suppression · terror · concentration camps · political prisoners · informants
Systematic annihilation of a people
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
- death campsSites for systematic murder
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- gas chambersSealed execution spaces using poison
deportation · ghetto · yellow star · Treblinka · victims · survivors · memorial · Anne Frank
fascism
Ultranationalist dictatorial political system
- antisemitismBigotry toward Jewish people
- racial purityIdeology of ethnic exclusivity
- LebensraumFascist territorial expansion doctrine
eugenics · nationalism · Mein Kampf · swastika · propaganda · master race · blood and soil · social Darwinism · scapegoating · book burning
Hitler
Nazi Germany's totalitarian leader
- GoebbelsThird Reich propaganda minister
- inner circleExclusive group of confidants
- high commandSenior military leadership
Eichmann · war criminals · trials · bunker · suicide · downfall
Third Reich
Hitler's totalitarian German state
- WehrmachtNazi Germany's armed forces
- LuftwaffeGerman military aviation
- SudetenlandCzech border territory, 1938
Munich Agreement · Operation Barbarossa · Kristallnacht · Eastern Front · Afrika Korps · Battle of Britain · Normandy · Stalingrad · D-Day · surrender
dictatorship
Unchecked single-ruler government
- FührerSupreme leader title
- GestapoNazi secret police
- secret policeClandestine state security apparatus
censorship · surveillance · Goebbels · one-party state · suppression · terror · concentration camps · political prisoners · informants · loyalty oaths
genocide
Systematic annihilation of a people
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
- death campsSites for systematic murder
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
gas chambers · deportation · ghetto · yellow star · Treblinka · victims · survivors · memorial · Anne Frank · Elie Wiesel
- Political PartiesRepublican Party, Democratic Party, Labour Party, Conservative Party, Green Party
- Interwar InstitutionsLeague of Nations, Comintern, Weimar Republic, Bauhaus, NKVD
- wartime organizationsWar Department, USO, civil defense, Home Guard, Selective Service
- WWII GermanyThird Reich, Wehrmacht, Hitler, Gestapo, Hitler Youth
- German HistoryPrussia, Saxony, Reichstag, Napoleonic Wars, Weimar Republic
- German PoliticsBundesrat, CSU, Greens, federal republic, chancellor
Nazi Partyliberal democracy
Rights-based elected governance
social democracy · Communist Party · democratic socialism · socialist parties · Labour Party
Nazi PartyFrench Resistance
WWII underground liberation movement
anti-Nazi resistance · White Rose · liberators · freedom fighters · Oskar Schindler
Nazi Partycivil rights movement
Organized effort against discrimination
anti-apartheid movement · racial equality · multiculturalism · integration · inclusivism
neo-Nazism, Nazi, Nazis, Nazism, Naziism, Nazification, neo-Nazis, anti-Nazi