Hitler´s rise to power started after the end of World War I. He joined a political party which´s name he changed as soon as 1920 to "Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" , meaning National Socialist German Worker´s Party, which we usually know simply as Nazi Party. Anti-Marxist and opposed to the Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Republic soon started with a srong anti-semitism. The culmination of his rise to power was the "Enabling Act" that permitted him to exercise great power without control.