who were the nazis

The Nazis were members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), a radical far-right political party led by Adolf Hitler. Founded after World War I in 1919, the Nazi Party promoted a racist, nationalist, violent antisemitic, and anti-democratic ideology known as Nazism or National Socialism. Their platform called for unifying all ethnic Germans, rejecting the Treaty of Versailles, rejecting Marxism, and establishing a strong central state. They sought territorial expansion, racial purity, and the exclusion and extermination of Jews and other groups they considered inferior. The Nazis rose to power amid the political turmoil and economic crises of postwar Germany, ultimately establishing a totalitarian dictatorship from 1933 to 1945 that led to World War II and the Holocaust, resulting in the genocide of six million Jews and millions of other victims. Their regime was marked by aggressive nationalism, widespread persecution, and genocidal policies.