![]() They had already by that point been a hodgepodge of Pan-German nationalist, anti-Marxist and anti-capitalist ideas all based around the framework of anti-Semitism. It had been founded by Anton Drexler along with his colleagues, Dietrich Eckart, Gottfried Feder and Karl Harrer, some of whom were part of the Thule Society. Originally it was more a club for army retirees venting about how much they hated the "November criminals" (their catch-all term for the Weimar Republic, founded in the aftermath of a revolution that took place in November 1918). It was originally a very small party, and Hitler was originally dispatched and ordered to visit it by the military (contrary to belief, he wasn't sent to spy on it, just sent to check up on it, and he then joined it openly). The party was initially the DAP (Deutsche Arbeiter Partei, German Workers Party), and a short while after Hitler joined in 1920, it became the NSDAP, with "National Socialist" prefixed to it. The Nazis were the second prominent fascist movement to arise in Europe following the rise of Benito Mussolini and Fascist Italy. ![]() Therefore, the names "Nazi Germany" and "Third Reich" are conventions for historians, not official denominations note When a Modern German talks about the 1933-1945 period, he or she may often call it Zeit des Nationalsozialismus or Nazizeit - "time of national-socialism" "time of the Nazis" among many, many other names or " You know who" kind of descriptions. In 1942, it was officially renamed Großdeutsches Reich (literally, "Greater German Realm"), to reflect their large territorial gains and the "unification" of the German-speaking lands, and to hark back to the Großdeutsche Lösung ("Greater German Solution") to the " German Question". The Nazis did not actually change the official name of the country until 1942 for ten of their twelve years in power, it remained simply Deutsches Reich (literally, "German Realm"), as it had been since 1871. (the First being the Holy Roman Empire, note Which actually kinda-sorta did make it to 1,000 years, although you have to twist the definition of the HRE to include Charlemagne (crowned "Emperor of the Romans" in 800) even though the first "Holy Roman Emperor" was Otto I (crowned in 962), and forget that the HRE spent the last 300 years or so of its existence as a powerless shell (" neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire") kept around as a trophy by the Austrian monarchs. ![]() note Hitler styled "his" new Germany as the "1000-year Reich", for which he got a lot of mockery after the war when it turned out to last only twelve years - although its crimes were so horrible and mass scale that it may well be remembered for over 1000 years. Nazi Germany is the name commonly used to refer to the German nation when it was ruled by Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist or Nazi party in the years 1933-1945. ![]()
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