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Since the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, and particularly since World War II, the term National Socialism almost always refers to Nazism and, in particular, the Nazi Party as well as derivatives such as modern neo-Nazism.
Some use the term national socialism to describe fascism in general. However, while most political scientists and academics view Nazism as a form of fascism, few would say that the opposite is true.
In Austria-Hungary (May 1918), the Austrian Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (D.A.P.) changed its name to the Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (D.N.S.A.P.). See Austrian National Socialism.
