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Adolf Hitler became involved with the fledgling German Workers' Party – which he would later transform into the Nazi Party – after the First World War, and set the violent tone of the movement early, by forming the Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary. [7]
30 January: President Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor of a Nazi-DNVP coalition. 1 February: Dissolution of the Reichstag. 2 February: Hitler meets with top military leaders, describes his plans to rearm Germany. 17 February: Prussian Interior Ministry permits the shooting of "enemies of the state" under the direction of Hermann Göring.
Nazi Germany, [i] officially known as the German Reich [j] and later the Greater German Reich, [k] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
Hitler quickly became the party's most active orator, appearing in public as a speaker 31 times within the first year after his self-discovery. [72] Crowds began to flock to hear his speeches. [73] Hitler always spoke about the same subjects: the Treaty of Versailles and the Jewish question. [61]
Hitler presented the Nazis as a form of German fascism. [149] [150] In November 1923, the Nazis attempted a "March on Berlin" modelled after the March on Rome, which resulted in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. [151] Hitler spoke of Nazism being indebted to the success of Fascism's rise to power in Italy. [152]
The power of the myth was so embedded into German society that the ballot cards for elections and plebiscites in the early 1930s did not refer to the "Nazi Party" but rather the "Hitler Movement". [17] Although "National Socialism" had been used by other political parties before the rise of the Nazis, Nazism was Hitlerism in simple terms. [36]
Rise of the Nazis is a British documentary series about the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The first series aired in 2019, followed by the second and third series in 2022, and the fourth series in 2023. [1] Several historians and military experts give their perspective on the events.