Nazism
 Nazism  (fascism, enemy image)   | |
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 Flag of the Nazi Party (1920 to 1945) | |
| Subpage(s) | •Nazism/25 Point program |
| Over 80 years on, the word "Nazi" is still in wide use as a pejorative, underlining is key role as an enemy image in the "just war" narrative | |
Nazi is the anglicized diminutive of the German word Nationalsozialist (Eng: National Socialist), which in turn is an abbreviation of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Eng: National Socialist German Workers’ Party) with the acronym NSDAP (Eng: Nazi Party). It was coined as an Enemy Image propaganda epithet (see below) and has remained in use by the war's victors ever since.
The NSDAP was the political party which brought Adolf Hitler to power in Germany in 1933. The government lasted until 1945.
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Background
National Socialist Germany, referred to by the establishment as "Nazi Germany", was a country under the governance of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), referred to by the establishment as the "Nazi Party". National Socialist Germany came about in 1933, the year Hitler was elected Chancellor. National Socialist Germany arose out of the ineffectual state that was the Weimar Republic, that plunged Germany into poverty as a result of the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
Enemy image
In accordance with the "Good War" official narrative of WWII, it is commonly used, in simplistic knee-jerk fashion, as an epithet epitomising the worst kind of reactionary fascism.
Business with Nazi Germany
The father of the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch helped construct a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany that was personally approved by Adolf Hitler, according to a new history of the Kochs and other wealthy families.[1] This is one of many examples of The Money Power enabling both sides in major confronations and disputes.
Prescott Bush also did a lot of business with Nazi Germany.[2]
Treaties signed with Hitler
On 23 August 2024, S. L. Kanthan posted on X:
- On this day in 1939, USSR and Nazi Germany signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty.
- What many people don’t realise is that UK, France, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Latvia etc. also signed treaties with Hitler.[3]
Between 1933 and 1939, the following countries signed treaties with Hitler:
- Denmark
- Estonia
- France (x 2)
- Italy (x 2)
- Japan
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Poland (x 2)
- Romania
- United Kingdom (x 3)
- USSR
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| Konstantin Dobrowolski | "Jew-murdering, torture-enabling, rape participant of Jews during the Holocaust in Ukraine" (George Galloway on 30 June 2025) |
| Right Sector | A coalition of "far-right" groups which sent members to participate in the Anti-Terrorist-Operation in the Donbas. |
Event
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| "The Holocaust" | In its capitalized form "The Holocaust" refers in the Western world to the treatment of the Jewish populations of Germany and German occupied territories during WW2 (1939-45). Its use in this format stems from about the mid-1960's (i.e. more than 20 years after the events it claims to define). It does not appear in histories or documents before that time. |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:May 8 and the rehabilitation of Nazism in Germany | Article | 12 May 2023 | Peter Schwarz | One day after the start of the war in Ukraine, Germany launched the largest rearmament offensive since 1945. Like the US, it is steadily escalating its proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and is not even shying away from nuclear annihilation. |
| Document:The tyranny of the political spectrum | article | 5 March 2017 | Peter | Details of an exchange in the comments section of an article on the World Socialist Web Site between the author and a regular WSWS commentator which was quickly removed by the site operators. It illustrates the blinkered censorious nature of activists committed to both 'Left' and 'Right' - in this case the 'Left'. |
| Document:Vladimir Putin announces Special Military Operation in Ukraine | Speech | 24 February 2022 | Vladimir Putin | "They did not leave us any other option for defending Russia and our people, other than the one we are forced to use today. In these circumstances, we have to take bold and immediate action. The people’s republics of Donbass have asked Russia for help." |
| Document:Why some people are spreading false rumours about the Texas gunman | Article | 9 May 2023 | Shayan Sardarizadeh Mike Wendling | The BBC factchecks the recent 2023 Allen, Texas outlet mall shooting regarding the alleged Nazism of the Hispanic shooter |
| File:Germany Must Perish.pdf | book | 1941 | Theodore N Kaufman | |
| File:Hitler Berlin speech 19 july 1940.pdf | Speech | 19 July 1940 | Adolf Hitler | Speech by Adolf Hitler to the Reichstag following the routing of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and the capitulation of France |
| Nazism/25 Point program | Party Program | 24 February 1920 | Adolf Hitler Anton Drexler | The putative government program of the newly formed National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). It was presented to an audience of about 2,000 at a Munich party rally on 24 February 1924 |
An official example
| Name | Description |
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| Dietrich Eckart | A German poet, playwright and philosopher who was a key influence on the development of Adolf Hitler's political philosophy |
