Nazism

Ideology based on racism, nationalism, and the supremacy of the state over the individual. The German Nazi party, the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party), was formed from the German Workers' Party (founded in 1919) and led by Adolf Hitler from 1921 to 1945 .

During the 1930s many similar parties were created throughout Europe and the USA, such as the British Union of Fascists (BUF) founded in the UK in 1932 by Oswald Mosley. However, only those of Austria, Hungary, and Sudeten were of major importance. These parties collaborated with the German occupation of Europe from 1939 to 1945. After the Nazi atrocities of World War II (see SS, concentration camp, Holocaust), the party was banned in Germany, but today parties with Nazi or neo-Nazi ideologies exist in many countries.