Rise and Effects Ot Nazism

Nazism, or National Socialism refers primarily to the totalitarian ideology and practices of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAPunder Adolf Hitler. It also refers to the policies adopted by the government of Germany from 1933 to 1945, a period in German history known as Nazi Germany or the "Third Reich".

On January 5, 1919, the party was founded as the German Workers' Party (DAP) by Anton Drexler along with just six other members.[1][2] Hitler, a corporal, was sent to investigate the party by German intelligence and was invited to join after impressing them with his speaking ability after getting into an argument with party members. Hitler later accepted the invitation and joined the party in September 1919,[2][3] and he became propaganda boss. The party was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party on April 1, 1920, against Hitler's choice of Social Revolutionary Party.[4][5] Hitler became the party leader on July 29, 1921.[5][2]

Nazism was not a precise, theoretically grounded ideology, or a monolithic movement, but rather a combination of various ideologies and groups, centered around anger at the Treaty of Versailles and what was considered to have been a Jewish/Communist conspiracy to humiliate Germany at the end of the First World War. As Nazism became dominant in Germany, especially after 1933, it was defined in practice as whatever was decreed by the Nazi Party and in particular by the Fьhrer, Adolf Hitler. In 1934, after the Night of the Long Knives, Nazism split into two factions, the first was the nationalist-oriented faction led by Hitler which initiated and succeeded in violently purging the party of the socialist-oriented faction led by Gregor Strasser, his brother Otto and SA chief Ernst Rцhm, which later became known as Strasserism.

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