Nazism (or National Socialism; ) is a set of political beliefs associated with the Nazi Party of Germany. It started in the 1920s. Party gained power in 1933, starting the Third Reich. They lasted in Germany until 1945, at the end of World War II. Nazism, while occasionally associated with it, is not a form of socialism. While it has certain similarities and parallels, in that it seeks to socialize the 'Aryan Race' at the expense of races the Nazis deemed inferior and oppressive, just as socialism seeks to socialize the proletariat at the expense of the bourgeoisie, National Socialism is an , ideology that rejects all forms of left-wing socialism and instead is heavily inspired from the works of and removed from the ideological legacy of socialism. The Nazis believed that only the Aryan race was capable of building nations and other races, notably the Jewish race, were agents of the corruptive forces of capitalism and bolshevism, both of which the Nazis opposed. The Nazis blamed the Jewish people for Germany's defeat in World War I. This is known as the Stab in the Back Myth. The Nazis also blamed the Jewish people for rapid inflation and practically every other economic woe facing Germany at the time as a result of their defeat in World War I. For this reason the Nazis not only viewed the Jewish people as inferior to but as oppressors of the Aryan people. The nazi's tactic of lazily albeit effectively blaming the Jewish people for all of Germany's problems is a propaganda tactic known as scapegoating and was used to justify the great atrocities committed by the Nazis against the Jewish people.