Introduction National Socialism
doctrines and policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, which ruled Germany under Adolf Hitler
from 1933 to 1945. In German the party name was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP); members were first called Nazis as a derisive abbreviation.
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