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Also Known As Nationalsozialismus • Naziism • National Socialism • Nazismus
Date 1919 - 1945
Location Germany
Context antisemitism • superman • totalitarianism • white supremacy

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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Carl Schmitt
German jurist and political theorist
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Ernst Röhm
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