National Socialism (disambiguation)

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National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of political movements, some of whom defined the term differently than others. It may refer to:

• Nazism, the political ideology of the German Nazi Party of the 1920s to 1940s. Since World War II, the term "National Socialism" (capitalized) is almost always used to refer to German Nazism in the context of Western political or historical discussions.
• In Austria-Hungary (May 1918), the Austrian Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (D.A.P.) changed its name to the Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (D.N.S.A.P.). See Austrian National Socialism.
• The Sudeten German National Socialist Party was formed by members of the DAP as a result of the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
• The Czech National Socialist Party (later the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party) was founded in 1898 and was a moderate, liberal, nationalist party. Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Edvard Beneš was its vice-chairman until he resigned to become a non-partisan president.
• The National Socialist Japanese Workers and Welfare Party was founded in 1982.
• The term national socialism was occasionally used by Trotsky as an epithet to describe Stalin's and Bukharin's theory of socialism in one country ^[1] (see also Stalinism). This use of the term was not meant as an allusion to German National Socialism.

For a more detailed list of parties, groups, and movements that have used the term national socialist in their name, see National Socialist Party and National Socialist Movement.