After Germany's defeat and the discovery of the full extent of the Holocaust, Nazi ideology became universally disgraced. It is widely regarded as evil, with only a few fringe racist groups, usually called …

Dec 23, 2025 · What are the main principles of Nazism? The Nazi Party’s ideology shared elements with Italian fascism, such as intense nationalism, anti-intellectualism, and dictatorial rule, but was more …

Jul 21, 2025 · It controlled all aspects of German life and persecuted German Jews. Its power only ended when Germany lost World War II. The Nazi Party was founded in the aftermath of World War …

Nov 9, 2009 · Founded in 1919 as the German Workers’ Party, the group promoted German pride and anti-Semitism, and expressed dissatisfaction with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the 1919 …

Nazi Germany, [i] officially the German Reich[j] and later the Greater German Reich, [k] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, …

Dec 7, 2025 · What happened to Nazism after World War II? Nazism ended with Germany’s defeat in 1945. Germany was divided until 1990, and remnants of Nazi ideology persisted. Neo-Nazi groups …

Jun 23, 2025 · In the months that followed, the Nazis transformed Germany from a democracy into a dictatorship. Hitler and the Nazis’ rise to power was not inevitable. It was the result of many factors, …

The Nazis sought to strengthen the Germanic people, the " Aryan master race ", through racial purity and eugenics, broad social welfare programs, and a collective subordination of individual rights, …

Dec 23, 2025 · On July 14, 1933, Hitler’s government declared the Nazi Party to be the only political party in Germany. On the death of Hindenburg in 1934 Hitler took the titles of Führer (“Leader”), …

Nazism, or National Socialism, Totalitarian movement led by Adolf Hitler as head of Germany’s Nazi Party (1920–45). Nazism’s roots lay in the tradition of Prussian militarism and discipline and German …