National Socialist German Workers' Party Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei | |
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Leader | Anton Drexler (1920–1921) Adolf Hitler (1921–1945) Martin Bormann (1945) |
Founder | Anton Drexler |
Founded | 1920 |
Dissolved | 1945 |
Preceded by | German Workers' Party (DAP) |
Succeeded by | None (banned) Ideologies continued with neo-Nazism |
Headquarters | Munich, Germany[1] |
Newspaper | Völkischer Beobachter |
Youth wing | Hitler Youth |
Paramilitary wing | Sturmabteilung (SA) Schutzstaffel (SS) |
Membership | Fewer than 60 in 1920 8.5 million by 1945 |
Ideology | Nazism |
Political position | Far-right[2][3] |
International affiliation | None |
Colors | Black, white, red (Imperial Germany's colors); brown |
Anthem | "Horst-Wessel-Lied" |
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The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German ; Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), also known as the Nazi Party, was a far-right[4][5][6] German political party. It was started in 1920 from the German Workers' Party (German: Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP),[7] which would later be renamed the NSDAP. On the day it was created, the party published its 25-point manifesto (book of ideas). The items in this list of ideas included getting rid of the Treaty of Versailles; gaining more land for the German people; taking away any income people had not earned by working; taking away Jewish people's citizenship; changing the education system; and setting up a strong central government.[7] It is most known for being Hitler's political party.
From 1920 until 1923, Hitler the NSDAP became to most popular in Bavaria since the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 . In June 1934 the Nazi Party started Night of the Long Knives to kill SA leader Ernst Röhm and German Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher .