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The National Socialist German Workers Party, (or NSDAP, commonly known as the Nazi Party), was an extremely nationalistic political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945. It was known as the German Workers Party (DAP) before the name was changed in 1920.

The party's eventual leader, Adolf Hitler, was appointed Chancellor of Germany by president Paul von Hindenburg in 1933. Hitler rapidly established a totalitarian regime known as the Third Reich, under which the party gained almost unlimited power.

Nazi ideology stressed the racial purity of the German people and persecuted those it perceived either as enemies or Lebensunwertes Leben, that is "life unworthy of life". (This included Jews, Slavs, Roma, Arabs, Africans and homosexuals), along with Jehovah's Witnesses, the mentally and/or physically disabled, socialists, and communists.) To carry out these beliefs, the party and the German state which it controlled organized the systemic murder of approximately 11 million people......

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