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Nazism: see National Socialism National Socialism or Nazism, doctrines and policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, which ruled Germany under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945. ..... Click the link for more information. . National Socialismor NazismTotalitarian movement led by Adolf Hitler as head of Germany's Nazi Party (1920–45). Its roots lay in the tradition of Prussian militarism and discipline and German Romanticism, which celebrated a mythic past and proclaimed the rights of the exceptional individual over all rules and laws. Its ideology was shaped by Hitler's beliefs in German racial superiority and the dangers of communism. It rejected liberalism, democracy, the rule of law, and human rights, stressing instead the subordination of the individual to the state and the necessity of strict obedience to leaders. It emphasized the inequality of individuals and “races” and the right of the strong to rule the weak. Politically, National Socialism favoured rearmament, reunification of the German areas of Europe, expansion into non-German areas, and the purging of “undesirables,” especially Jews. See also fascism. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Perfectly organized and written in lucid, no-frills prose, Nazism and War shows precisely how, from the moment of its peacetime inception, German National Socialism was committed solely to war as both its cause and effect and was uniquely driven entirely by racism and hatred. Ba'athism -- a feeble local fusion of Communism and romantic German national socialism -- views America as a mortal foe, whose very nature as a symbol of individual freedom can be neither digested nor tolerated by an enslaving regime. Fascism was an Italian phenomenon in practice (and for a while in essence), different from German National Socialism. |
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