Nazi Party
Also known as: National Socialist German Workers' Party · National Socialists
- 1The Nazi Party was a far-right political organization active in Germany from 1920 to 1945.
- 2It originated from the German Workers' Party, which existed between 1919 and 1920.
- 3The party drew its early membership from the Freikorps paramilitary culture.
- 4Its core ideology focused on völkisch nationalism, antisemitism, and anti-Marxism.
- 5The party gained significant popular support only after the onset of the Great Depression.
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party, was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.
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political organization led by Erich Koch
Koch was a long-time member and high-ranking official within the NSDAP, which provided the institutional framework for his power.
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party, was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party, existed from 1919 to 1920. The Nazi Party emerged from the extremist German nationalist, racist, and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against communist uprisings in post–World War I Germany. The party was created to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism. Hitler stated while on trial for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch in February 1924 that "I have resolved to be the destroyer of Marxism", a statement which he later applied to those opposed to the Nazi Party in 1926, claiming "They tried to paralyze the one party that would have been able to give opposition to this Red pest." Initially, Nazi political strategy used socialist rhetoric to gain the support of the lower middle class whilst maintaining other views; that was later downplayed to gain the support of business leaders. By the 1930s, the antisemitic and anti-Marxist themes of the party became even further emphasized. The party had little popular support until the Great Depression, when worsening living standards and widespread unemployment drove Germans into political extremism.
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