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Deutsche Gemeinschaft was a branch of the Nazi Party founded in 1919, created for Germans with Volksdeutsche status. [149] It is not to be confused with the post-war right-wing Deutsche Gemeinschaft , which was founded in 1949. Notable members included: [150] [page needed] Oswald Menghin
The Nazis were a far-right fascist political party which arose during the social and financial upheavals that occurred following the end of World War I. [168] The Party remained small and marginalised, receiving 2.6% of the federal vote in 1928, prior to the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. [169]
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
The Nazi Party's precursor, the pan-German nationalist and antisemitic German Workers' Party (DAP), was founded on 5 January 1919. By the early 1920s, the party was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party in order to appeal to left-wing workers, [13] a renaming that Hitler initially objected to. [14]
Nazi Germany was established in January 1933 with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, followed by suspension of basic rights with the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act which gave Hitler's regime the power to pass and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or German president, and de facto ended with ...
He also engineered the name change of the DAP to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei – NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party), later known to the rest of the world as the Nazi Party. [m] [29] Hitler designed the party's banner of a swastika in a white circle on a red background.
Over the next five months, the Nazis systematically force all opposition political parties to shut down. 5 March: Reichstag Election results in slim majority for Hitler's coalition, though not a majority for the Nazi Party, which polls 17.2 million votes (43.9%) and wins 288 seats. 9 March: Heinrich Himmler becomes Police President in Munich.
The National Socialist Program, also known as the Nazi Party Program, the 25-point Program or the 25-point Plan (German: 25-Punkte-Programm), was the party program of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP, and referred to in English as the Nazi Party).