National Socialism (disambiguation)
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- Since the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, and particularly since World War II, the term National Socialism almost always refers to Nazism and, in particular, the Nazi Party as well as derivatives such as modern neo-Nazism.
- Some use the term national socialism to describe fascism in general. However, while most political scientists and academics view Nazism as a form of fascism, few would say that the opposite is true.
- In Austria-Hungary (May 1918), the Austrian Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (D.A.P.) changed its name to the Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (D.N.S.A.P.). See Austrian National Socialism.
- The Czech National Socialist Party (later the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party) was founded in 1898 and was a moderate, liberal, nationalist party. In the 1930s it was led by Czechoslovakia's Prime Minister Eduard Benes who was deposed by the Nazis and fled to London to form a government-in-exile.
- For other parties of various ideological hues that have used the term National Socialist in their name see this list of National Socialist parties.
- In the mid to late 1920s the term national socialism was occasionally used by Trotsky as an epithet to describe Stalin and Bukharin's theory of socialism in one country.