National Socialism,[a] abbreviated to Nazism, is a fascist ideology developed by Adolf Hitler. Nazism is based on psuedoscientific racism of favoring an "Aryan" race to unite the German people, and antagonizing Semites to distract the working class. Nazism also incorporated anticommunism and antisemitism.
Nazism was only practiced in the Third German Reich.
Nomenclature
Use of 'Socialism'
National Socialism is not a socialist ideology, despite the noun being Socialism. Hitler used the term socialism as a popular and effective slogan to push Nazism to the German people. Hitler was against socialism (as the means of production) and Marxism.[1]
References
- ↑ “It was during this period that my eyes were opened to two perils, the names of which I scarcely knew hitherto and had no notion whatsoever of their terrible significance for the existence of the German people. These two perils were Marxism and Judaism.”
Adolf Hitler. My Struggle: 'CHAPTER I: IN THE HOME OF MY PARENTS' (German: Mein Kampf).
Notes
- ↑ German: Nationalsozialismus