1. Nazism was the extremist political ideology adopted by the National Socialist German Workers Party, called the German Nazi Party, led between 1933 and 1945 by Adolf Hitler, whose racist, anti-communist and anti-Semitic ideas led to the genocide of millions of people in All Europe.
Etymology: By German Naziwhich adjectives members or followers National Socialistand the suffix -ismo, according to attribute doctrine property.
Grammatical category: masculine noun
in syllables: na-zis-mo.
Nazism
Nazism was one of the most complex and dark historical phenomena of the 20th century, born in Germany between the wars and exalted under the power of a racist and highly exterminating character like Adolf Hitler.
Political current established by Hitler and which was based on an exercise of authoritarian power and a segregationist policy against the Jewish community
Nazism was based on policies of racial segregation directed especially against the Jews (although the objective was slowly blurred) and by economic and social policies that sought to establish the Aryan power of Germany in Europe and the world. Its name comes from the party to which Hitler belonged, National Socialism.
Origins and essential features
Nazism arose as a consequence of the complex situation in Germany after the First World War. The economic and political failure of the Weimar Republic, as well as the high costs imposed on the nation for generating the first war, made the region extremely chaotic. The social, economic and political isolation suffered by the Germans between the two wars facilitated the arrival of an authoritarian leader like Hitler who promised to revive the Aryan nation from its ashes.
Thus, Hitler organized a complex social, political, economic, police and military infrastructure whose objective was to recover the lost greatness of Germany and establish the region as the power of Europe and the world. Hitler came to power through popular suffrage, but along the way his exercise of power became increasingly authoritarian and totalitarian, centralizing all decisions and projects in his person. This is verified from the fact that when Hitler died, Nazism as a political system disappeared.
Meanwhile, one of the essential features of Nazism was the absolute intervention of the state in the life of society. Everything that German citizens did was determined, allowed or prohibited by the state headed by its leader Hitler.
The means of production, education, the press, culture were controlled by the state and of course freedom of expression and political plurality did not exist in those times and any hint of it was harshly punished.
Meanwhile, to impose all his imprint and make sure that there was no dissent, he set up a tremendous propaganda system whose maxim was to promote the benefits of belonging to Nazism.
Propaganda was the most powerful tool when it came to promoting the political party and its program, and of course when it came to controlling everything that was said.
Because the mission was to publicize the “benefits” of the regime and prevent dissident voices from demonstrating. Behind her was Paul Joseph Goebbels, one of Hitler’s closest collaborators and who would serve as the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda between the peak years of Nazism (1933-1945).
The regulation of the press, cinema, music, radio broadcasting, theater and any other type of art was in the hands of Goebbels, a character as sinister as his political boss Hitler and who supported hatred until the last moment. by the Jews and their cruel extermination in the concentration camps.
One of the most painful and dark elements of Nazism was the propaganda in favor of Jewish extermination that was carried out. Here a deep identity problem was raised in the Germany of the time, since German Jews were accused of not being pure and of possessing wealth that actually belonged to Aryan Germans.
The extermination campaign extended throughout the entire Nazi regime, which officially lasted from 1933 to 1945, and became known worldwide after the end of the war from the discovery of the extermination and torture camps such as Auschwitz, undoubtedly the most emblematic for the cruelty with which he operated in those years.
The Nuremberg Trials, because they took place in that German city, were the legal proceedings promoted by the allied nations once Nazism had fallen and which had the objective of judging and punishing those responsible for the atrocity that was the Holocaust.
Even with Hitler and Goebbels committing suicide, the chain of complicity was fantastic, and then these processes managed to punish more than twenty Nazi leaders who survived and were captured.
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