The head of the Nazi Party was Adolf Hitler. He joined the German Workers' Party in 1919 and swiftly rose to prominence, eventually transforming it into the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. Hitler's charismatic leadership, propaganda techniques, and radical ideology focused on nationalism, antisemitism, and the pursuit of a totalitarian state. He became Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and later took on the title of Führer, leading the country into World War II and implementing policies that resulted in the Holocaust, one of history's most horrific genocides.