National Socialism (disambiguation)

National Socialism most often refers to Nazism, the ideology of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers' Party, NSDAP) which existed in Germany between 1920 and 1945 and ruled the country from 1933 to 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.

National Socialism may also refer to:

• Ethnic German movements related to Nazism:
  • Austrian National Socialism, an early influence on the NSDAP
  • German National Socialist Workers' Party (Czechoslovakia) (Sudeten German, anti-Semitic)
    • Sudeten German Party (Sudeten German, pro-annexation-by-Germany, successor of the above)
  • Strasserism, a breakaway movement from German Nazism
• Non-German groups drawing inspiration from Nazism and existing in the same historical period:
  • Bulgarian National Socialist Workers 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–1930s; favoured German annexation of the Netherlands)
  • National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (1930s–1940s; unlike the above, it nominally supported an independent Netherlands)
  • National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway (German-style Nazi, anti-Semitic)
  • Nasjonal Samling (Norway) (German-style Nazi, anti-Semitic, anti-Masonic)
  • 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 World War II)
  • South African Gentile National Socialist Movement (1930s–1940s; 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 (UK, 1962) 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
  • Jatiya 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