| | The Nazis were a [[fascist]] political party in Germany in the first half of the 20th century. The official name of the party was the '''Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei''', or [[National Socialist German Workers Party]] (NSDAP). It's most notable leader was [[Adolf Hitler]], known as Der Fuhrer. | | The Nazis were a [[fascist]] political party in Germany in the first half of the 20th century. The official name of the party was the '''Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei''', or [[National Socialist German Workers Party]] (NSDAP). It's most notable leader was [[Adolf Hitler]], known as Der Fuhrer. |
| − | The Nazis were not in any way, shape or form [[conservative]], this despite the portrayal of it by some as a product or form of ultra-conservatism. (Of course, they were anti-abortion, anti-socialist, anti-homosexual, anti-feminist, and highly militaristic.) Rather, they were a [[radical]] movement rooted in a view of the superiority of Germany, and everything German. | + | The Nazis were not in any way, shape or form [[conservative]], despite the portrayal of it by some as a product or form of ultra-conservatism. (Of course, they were anti-abortion, anti-socialist, anti-homosexual, anti-feminist, and highly militaristic.) Rather, they were a [[radical]] movement rooted in a view of the superiority of Germany, and everything German. |
| | Specific cultural movements eventually feeding into the rise of the Nazi Party to power included an [[occultism]] movement interested in black magic and Germanic pre-Christian [[pagan]] religion popular in Germany in the decades before [[WWII]]; and a [[counterculture]] movement of disaffected and alienated youth after [[WWI]] known as the ''Wandervogel'', which eventually provided much of the recruitment base for the S.S. and S.A., two Nazi Party [[paramilitary]] groups. | | Specific cultural movements eventually feeding into the rise of the Nazi Party to power included an [[occultism]] movement interested in black magic and Germanic pre-Christian [[pagan]] religion popular in Germany in the decades before [[WWII]]; and a [[counterculture]] movement of disaffected and alienated youth after [[WWI]] known as the ''Wandervogel'', which eventually provided much of the recruitment base for the S.S. and S.A., two Nazi Party [[paramilitary]] groups. |