Nazis

Nazis refers to members or supporters of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in Germany from the early 1920s until 1945. They combined extreme nationalism, racial ideology, antisemitism, and anti-democratic positions.

The movement originated in post–World War I Germany and grew under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. The party published a program of radical nationalist, racist, and anti-democratic goals, built support through propaganda and paramilitary groups, and attempted to seize power in the early 1920s. After reforming and rebranding, the Nazis gained electoral strength and, in January 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor. They then used legal changes, intimidation, and violence to establish a single-party dictatorship through measures such as the Enabling Act and the suppression of political opposition.

Government and policy under the Nazi regime centralized power around the Führerprinzip, with extensive use of propaganda, the Gestapo, the SS, and other state organs. The regime pursued a racial hierarchy based on antisemitism and eugenics, aggressively persecuting Jews and other groups it deemed undesirable. It implemented state-led militarization, Gleichschaltung (coordination of institutions), and expansionist aims that culminated in aggressive wars and territorial occupation.

Crimes and war crimes included the Holocaust, in which six million Jews and millions of others were murdered, deported, or imprisoned in concentration and extermination camps. Nazi exp