The Nazism

The full name of the Nazi Party was the National Socialist German Workers Party. This Party was a nationalistic, anti-communist and an anti Sematic organization.

After the WWI, the German government had to face a lot of problems, like for example, the people who looked for someone to blame their defeat in this war. Also, there were as lot of revolutions and fights between the extremists of the far left, and he extremists of the far right.

In the year 1920, Adolf Hitler took the control of the Nazi party. He won a lot of support because he claimed that the Germans belong to an upper race that was destined to rule the world.

In the 1930s, a lot of citizens found hope in the Nazi party, because the Great Depression caused too much unemployment. On the other hand, Hitler, gain all the power moving all the other oppositions parties and setting up a fascist state, in other words, a totalitarian state.

The secret police was called “The Gestapo”, which arrested a lot of people who opposed the Nazi rule. The Nazis had a lot of power, so, like Mussolini or Stalin, Hitler took the press and the schools to impose their laws.

Another thing that the Nazis did was to make a violent campaign to the Jews. They sent this people to concentration camps or prisons.

To improve the unemployment and the economy, Hitler increased the German military. He violated the Versailles Treaty.

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