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Hitler was the leader of Germany of the years Between December 1918 and March 1919 Hitler worked at a prisoner-of-war camp at Traunstein before returning again to Munich. In 1921 Hitler became the leader of the Nazi party. German political party of National Socialism. Founded in 1919 as the German Workers' Party The nickname Nazi was taken from the first word of its full name, Nationalsozialistische. After Hitler was named chancellor in 1933, he obtained passage of the Enabling Act  and his government declared the Nazi party to be the only political party in Germany and required bureaucrats to become members. The party controlled all activities in Germany until Germany's defeat in World War II (1945), after which the party was banned.