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| | ==Origins== | | ==Origins== |
| | {{main|Nazi platform of 1925}} | | {{main|Nazi platform of 1925}} |
| − | [[Image:Wille.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Political poster from Germany during the 1930s; translated, it reads ''National Socialism -- the organized will of the nation'']]
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| | National socialism is related to [[socialism]] in which the basic core is a control of people, property, and income by a centralized government. The core concepts of socialism were kept, transferred, and implemented in the 25 points of the Nazi Party Platform of 1925, which included: | | National socialism is related to [[socialism]] in which the basic core is a control of people, property, and income by a centralized government. The core concepts of socialism were kept, transferred, and implemented in the 25 points of the Nazi Party Platform of 1925, which included: |
| | *The abolition of unearned income; | | *The abolition of unearned income; |
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| | *A rabid hatred for anything and anyone not German; | | *A rabid hatred for anything and anyone not German; |
| | *and a passionate German nationalism which demanded an expansion of German territory by force or other means. | | *and a passionate German nationalism which demanded an expansion of German territory by force or other means. |
| | + | [[Image:Wille.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Political poster from Germany during the 1930s; translated, it reads ''National Socialism -- the organized will of the nation'']] |
| | Prior to World War I, Hitler had been a homeless tramp eking out a meager living as an artist in Vienna, Austria, a multi-ethnic city which included Slavs and Jews among its population; his experience there, as well as the racial propaganda Hitler read voraciously - among them the classic forgery ''Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' - fed into his pro-Germanic racist beliefs. | | Prior to World War I, Hitler had been a homeless tramp eking out a meager living as an artist in Vienna, Austria, a multi-ethnic city which included Slavs and Jews among its population; his experience there, as well as the racial propaganda Hitler read voraciously - among them the classic forgery ''Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' - fed into his pro-Germanic racist beliefs. |
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