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 | | NATIONAL SOCIALISM [National Socialism] or Nazism, doctrines and policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, which ruled Germany under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945. |
 | | National Socialism made its appeal not to an economic class but rather to the insecure and power-hungry elements of society. |
 | | Nazi ideology drew on the racist doctrines of the comte de Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, on the nationalism of Heinrich von Treitschke, and on the hero-cult of Friedrich Nietzsche, often transforming the ideas of these thinkers. |
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