National Socialism (disambiguation)

National Socialism may refer to:

• Nazism, the political ideology of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party, NSDAP), existing in Germany between 1919 and 1945. The term "National Socialism" was used by a number of unrelated groups before the Nazis, but since their rise to prominence it has become associated almost exclusively with their ideas.
  • Austrian National Socialism, an early influence on the NSDAP
  • German National Socialist Workers' Party (Czechoslovakia) (Sudeten German, anti-Semitic)
  • Sudeten German National Socialist Party (Sudeten German, pro-annexation-by-Germany, successor of the above)

• Non-German groups drawing inspiration from Nazism and existing in the same historical period:
  • Bulgarian National Socialist Party
  • Canadian National Socialist Unity Party (pro-Anglo-Canadian/French-Canadian)
  • National Socialist Movement of Chile (1930s)
  • National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark (German-style Nazi, anti-Semitic)
  • Greek National Socialist Party (Italian-style fascist, pro-Hitler)
  • Hungarian National Socialist Party (German-style Nazi, anti-Semitic)
  • National Socialist Dutch Workers Party (1920s-30s; favoured German annexation of the Netherlands)
  • National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (1930s-40s; unlike the above, it nominally supported an independent Netherlands)
  • National Socialist Party (Romania) (German-style Nazi)
  • Swedish National Socialist Freedom League (pro-Hitler, founded in 1924)
  • Swedish National Socialist Party (founded in 1930 through a merger of Nazi and fascist groups)
  • National Socialist Workers Party (Sweden) (split from the above in 1933, became more Strasserite and independently Swedish before declining during WWII)
  • South African Gentile National Socialist Movement (1930s-40s; pro-apartheid, white, anti-Semitic)

• Neo-Nazism, a label for groups and ideologies after 1945 that are considered to be based on Nazism:
  • National Socialist Movement of Denmark (contemporary)
  • Iranian National Socialist Party, created in 1952 (pro-Hitler, anti-Semitic, anti-Arab, anti-Turk)
  • National Socialist Party of New Zealand (German-style Nazi, anti-Semitic)
  • National Socialist Movement of Norway (contemporary)
  • Russian National Socialist Party (Russian nationalist, fascist, anti-immigrant, promoting Orthodox Christian theocracy)
  • Colin Jordan's National Socialist Movement (1960s) of the United Kingdom
  • National Socialist Action Party (British, founded in 1982)
  • National Socialist Movement (United Kingdom) (contemporary)
  • National Socialist League (United States) (gay, "Aryan", pro-Hitler)
  • National Socialist Party of America (white, anti-Semitic, anti-black)
  • National Socialist Movement (United States) (contemporary)

• Other unrelated ideologies and organizations, some of which were founded before the NSDAP and thus before "National Socialism" became associated with Nazism, while others exist in non-European contexts where Nazism is not widely known:
  • Czech National Social Party, founded in Austria-Hungary in 1898 as a center-left party advocating Czech independence
  • National-Social Association, a small center-left Christian liberal party in Germany, founded by Friedrich Naumann in 1896
  • National Socialist Party (UK), a breakaway group from the British Socialist Party formed in 1916; historically Marxist, it reverted to a previous name as the Social Democratic Federation in 1919 and then merged with the Labour Party
  • Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal (National Socialist Party), a small socialist party in Bangladesh
  • National Socialist Council of Nagaland, a Maoist insurgent group in India
  • National Socialist Party of Tripura, a party advocating Tripuri self-determination in India