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Also Known As National Socialist German Workers’ Party • NSDAP • National-Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei • Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
Date 1919 - 1945
Areas Of Involvement antisemitism • nationalism • Today in History—March 15: The Nazi Seizure of Church Bells • Were the Nazis Socialists?
Related People Adolf Hitler • Hermann Göring • Adolf Eichmann • Heinrich Himmler • Josef Dietrich • Martin Bormann • Gottfried Feder • Fritz Thyssen • Heinrich Harrer • Erich Ludendorff • Joseph Goebbels • Oskar Schindler • Reinhard Heydrich • Carl Schmitt • Amon Göth

Did You Know?

  • The Nazis offered a bounty for Albert Einstein's assassination.
  • The Nazi regime promoted the use of methamphetamine among its soldiers.
  • The Nazi regime hosted the 1936 Olympic Games but allowed Helene Mayer, a Jewish fencer, to compete for Germany.
  • Before deciding upon the Final Solution, Adolf Hitler considered deporting Jews to Madagascar.
  • To spread propaganda, the Nazi regime created a jazz band called Charlie and His Orchestra.

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Nazi SS troops march in formation carrying banners with swastikas and eagles at the 1933 Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, with trees in the background.
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Newspaper coverage of the Night of the Long Knives
Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler walk past rows of uniformed guards holding rifles during a parade, with Nazi flags displayed on buildings in the background.
Large crowd in a stadium giving the Nazi salute as athletes parade on the field, with Nazi flags displayed above the stands at the 1934 Nuremberg rally in Germany.
Kristallnacht
Buchenwald concentration camp roll call
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