The National Socialist German Workers Party

From 1934 to 1939, the NSDAP began to merge the NSDAP and the German government into one entity. Hitler’s first action to merge was three hours before President Paul von Hindenburg’s death, in which he passed a law that said the President and Chancellor offices would be merged upon the President’s death and hence Hitler would become Fuhrer of Germany. Hitler became Head of State, Head of Government and Chairman of the Nazi Party all in one office. Nazi racial views became laws with Germany becoming an anti-Semitic and racialist state after the passing of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935.

The first Nuremberg law, The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, prohibited marriages and extra-marital intercourse between “Jews” and “Germans” and also the employment of “German” females under forty-five in Jewish households. The second law, The Reich Citizenship Law, stripped Jews of their German citizenship.

The Nazi Nuremberg Laws of 1935 formalized the actions taken against Jewish people into laws. Nazi leaders stressed that the Party program which deprived Jews of their rights as citizens had to have legislation to back up the Party actions, hence the Nuremberg Laws.

During World War II, from 1939 to 1945, the Nazi Party continued as usual in the homeland of the “Greater German Reich” with the federal government staffed by Nazis and the local and state governments under the control of Nazi political leaders. As Germany expanded its territory and began conquering other countries, the Nazi Party began establishing dictatorial regimes to replace the fallen governments, all of which were controlled by Nazi appointed leaders. Hitler continued the genocide of millions of people including the Jewish, Polish and Russians, Roma Gypsies, the handicapped and political dissidents in his attempt to form one Aryan nation and expand Germany’s borders. Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945 and the Nazi regime was defeated resulting in the end of World War II in Europe from May 4 through May 8, 1945

When the war ended in Europe, the Nazi Party was disbanded and declared illegal by the Allied Control Council in May 1945. The Nazi Party and the NSDAP ceased to exist. Since then there have been several attempts to reorganize with the most recent organization called the National Democratic Party, founded in 1964 in West Germany. Its program is almost identical to the old Nazi ideals and it has survived to the point where it still maintains a presence in German politics to this day.