Nazi Party

Examples of Nazi Party in the following topics:

• The Nazi Party

• Hitler's Germany

  • Hitler and his Nazi Party ruled Germany from 1933-1945 as a fascist totalitarian state which controlled nearly all aspects of life.
  • The Nazi Party then began to eliminate all political opposition and consolidate its power.
  • The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) was the renamed successor of the German Workers' Party founded in 1919, one of several far-right political parties active in Germany at the time.
  • Hitler and the Nazi Party prepared to take advantage of the emergency to gain support for their party.
  • In the following months, the Nazi Party used a process termed Gleichschaltung (co-ordination) to rapidly bring all aspects of life under control of the party.

• The Holocaust

  • The German government led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party was responsible for the Holocaust, the killing of approximately 6 million Jews, as well as 2.7 million ethnic Poles, and 4 million others who were deemed "unworthy of life" as part of a program of deliberate and systematic extermination.
  • Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany, German-occupied territories and territories held by allies of Nazi Germany.
  • Under the coordination of the SS, following directions from the highest leadership of the Nazi Party, every arm of Germany's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics and the carrying out of the genocide.
  • Hungarian Jews being selected by Nazis to be sent to the gas chamber at Auschwitz concentration camp.
  • Connect the events of the Holocaust to previous Anti-Semitic actions taken under the Nazi Regime

• Italy and Germany

  • The National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP; Nazi Party) was the renamed successor of the German Workers' Party founded in 1919, one of several far-right political parties active in Germany at the time.
  • After the federal election of 1932, the Nazis were the largest party in the Reichstag, holding 230 seats with 37.4 percent of the popular vote.
  • All civilian organizations, including agricultural groups, volunteer organizations, and sports clubs, had their leadership replaced with Nazi sympathizers or party members.
  • Further elections in November 1933, 1936, and 1938 were entirely Nazi-controlled and saw only the Nazis and a small number of independents elected.
  • All social programs in Nazi Germany excluded German Jews.

• The Nuremberg Trials

  • The Nuremberg Trials were military tribunals that tried Nazi political and military leadership for alleged crimes committed during the war.
  • He led the American delegation to London that, in the summer of 1945, argued in favor of prosecuting the Nazi leadership as a criminal conspiracy.
  • There was an immense amount of evidence backing the prosecutors' case, especially since meticulous records of the Nazis' actions had been kept.
  • The prosecution entered indictments against 24 major war criminals and seven organizations – the leadership of the Nazi party, the Reich Cabinet, the Schutzstaffel (SS), Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the Gestapo, the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the "General Staff and High Command," comprising several categories of senior military officers.
  • The creation of the IMT was followed by trials of lesser Nazi officials and the trials of Nazi doctors, who performed experiments on people in prison camps.

• The Holocaust

  • The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews during World War II.
  • Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories, with Nazi-occupied Poland constituting the geographical hub of the genocide.
  • The latter were first established as prison camps to hold Hitler's opponents in Germany immediately after the Nazi Party took over power.
  • After invading Poland, the Nazis established ghettos in the incorporated territories and General Government to confine Jews.
  • Treblinka, Sobibór, and Bełżec were never liberated, but were destroyed by the Nazis in 1943.

• Political Parties

  • Partisan style political parties varies according to each jurisdiction, depending on how many parties there are, and how much influence each individual party has.
  • In single-party systems, one political party is legally allowed to hold effective power.
  • Other examples can be found in Fascist states, such as Nazi Germany between 1934 and 1945.
  • One right wing coalition party and one left wing coalition party is the most common ideological breakdown in such a system, but in two-party states political parties are traditionally parties that are ideologically broad and inclusive.
  • More commonly, in cases where there are three or more parties, no one party is likely to gain power alone, and parties work with each other to form coalition governments.

• German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship

  • It was a secret clause as amended on September 28, 1939 by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union after their joint invasion and occupation of sovereign Poland, and thus after the beginning of World War II.
  • Only a small portion of the protocol which superseded the first treaty was publicly announced while the spheres of influence of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union remained classified.
  • These articles allowed for the exchange of Soviet and German nationals between the two occupied zones of Poland, redrew parts of the central European spheres of interest dictated by the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and also stated that neither party to the treaty would allow on its territory any "Polish agitation" directed at the other party.
  • The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, also known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact, was a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939 by foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov, respectively.
  • The clauses of the Nazi-Soviet Pact provided a written guarantee of non-belligerence by each party towards the other, and a declared commitment that neither government would ally itself to, or aid, an enemy of the other party.

• Non-Democratic Governments: Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, and Dictatorship

  • By contrast, a single-party state is a type of party system government in which a single political party forms the government and no other parties are permitted to run candidates for election.
  • Typically, single-party states hold the suppression of political factions, except as transitory issue oriented currents within the single party or permanent coalition as a self-evident good.
  • The Communist Party of China's single-party rule of the People's Republic of China is a prominent contemporary example .
  • A number of thinkers, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, have argued that Nazi and Soviet regimes were equally totalitarian.
  • XVII Congress of the Communist Party of China held in 2007.

• Antisemitism in Nazi Germany