Editing Nazi Party (section)

== Ideology ==
The Nazi Party's ideology was a variation of [[fascism]] known as '''National Socialism''' (not to be confused with the type of socialism associated with communism) and it promoted the idea that the Aryan race (humans of Nordic and Germanic descent) was an innately superior breed of human and therefore deserved dominance over the world and other races. While the party is well-remembered for its extreme [[Anti-Semitism|antisemitism]] and mass slaughter of Jews, the Nazis also targeted [[wikipedia:Slavs|Slavs]] (such as Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Serbians, Croatians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Russians; the Slavic peoples were notably the main victims of ''[[Generalplan Ost]]''), [[wikipedia:Romani people|Romani]] (targeting them with a separate event known as the [[Porajmos]]) Greeks, Arabs, Muslims, homosexuals, the disabled, Christians (such as Jehovahs Witnesses and Catholics), socialists, leftists and leftist-sympathizers, political dissidents, and others deemed [[wikipedia:Untermensch|Untermensch]] (sub-human) by the dictatorship.

Adherents of the ideology were referred to as "'''Hitlerists'''", though historians prefer the term "'''Nazis'''" due to the term being too simplistic as it was used before Hitler's rise to power as well as multiple different ideologies that were incorporated within Nazism that had already existed prior in Germany long before World War I even occurred.