National Socialist German Workers' Party

The emblem of NSDAP

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (Ger: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), shortened to NSDAP, was the political party of Germany active between 1933 and 1945. It was led by Adolf Hitler.

History

Before the Putsch (1919-1923)

The NSDAP originally grew out of smaller political groups with nationalist sentiment that formed by the end of the Great War. In January 1919, Anton Drexler created a new political party, proposing its name be "German Socialist Workers' Party", but it was rejected due to socialism's relation to the genocidal Soviet regime that corrupted the word. The party was then named "German Workers' Party" (DAP). The DAP was opposed to non-nationalist movements from the very start, such as the SPD and KPD vying for power over Germany, calling them out for being funded by international jewry.

Later that year, Adolf Hitler was encouraged to join the DAP by Anton Drexler after a heated debate with a visitor of one of the party's meetings. After joining, he encouraged the party to become an active player in the nation's politics, rather than a debating group.

In early 1920, the party's name was changed to National Socialist German Workers' Party in order to appeal to left-wing workers.

On 8 November 1923, the NSDAP rallied the residents of Munich in order to dethrone the jews. On the morning of the next day, a group of over 2,000 supporters marched through the city attempting to gather support, but they were stopped by the local garrison who proceeded to fire upon the activists. Almost two dozen lay dead, with a number of party members, including Adolf Hitler, being arrested. The party was banned in the same day, but it continued to operate under the name "German Party" with the support of other nationalist parties.

After being pardoned by the Bavarian Supreme Court at the end of 1924, Adolf Hitler convinced the authorities to lift the ban of the NSDAP. The party was refounded a few months later in early 1925 with Adolf as its leader. During this time, the party began expanding across Germany, surveying voters in order to better understand the troubles of the Germans.

Nazi

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NSDAP's name was often propagandized as the "Nazi Party" by its enemies in order to cloud the party's ideology and purpose behind a vague meaningless label. The term also applied to the ideology of National Socialism > "Nazism", and the Third Reich > "Nazi Germany".

Beliefs

25 step programme

1. We demand the unification of all Germans in the Greater Germany on the basis of the right of self-determination of peoples.
2. We demand equality of rights for the German people in respect to the other nations; abrogation of the peace treaties of Versailles and St. Germain.
3. We demand land and territory (colonies) for the sustenance of our people, and colonization for our surplus population.
4. Only a member of the race can be a citizen. A member of the race can only be one who is of German blood, without consideration of creed. Consequently no Jew can be a member of the race.
5. Whoever has no citizenship is to be able to live in Germany only as a guest, and must be under the authority of legislation for foreigners.
6. The right to determine matters concerning administration and law belongs only to the citizen. Therefore we demand that every public office, of any sort whatsoever, whether in the Reich, the county or municipality, be filled only by citizens. We combat the corrupting parliamentary economy, officeholding only according to party inclinations without consideration of character or abilities.
7. We demand that the state be charged first with providing the opportunity for a livelihood and way of life for the citizens. If it is impossible to sustain the total population of the State, then the members of foreign nations (non-citizens) are to be expelled from the Reich.
8. Any further immigration of non-citizens is to be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans, who have immigrated to Germany since the 2 August 1914, be forced immediately to leave the Reich.
9. All citizens must have equal rights and obligations.
10. The first obligation of every citizen must be to work both spiritually and physically. The activity of individuals is not to counteract the interests of the universality, but must have its result within the framework of the whole for the benefit of all Consequently we demand:
11. Abolition of unearned (work and labour) incomes. Breaking of rent-slavery.
12. In consideration of the monstrous sacrifice in property and blood that each war demands of the people personal enrichment through a war must be designated as a crime against the people. Therefore we demand the total confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all (previous) associated industries (trusts).
14. We demand a division of profits of all heavy industries.
15. We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.
16. We demand the creation of a healthy middle class and its conservation, immediate communalization of the great warehouses and their being leased at low cost to small firms, the utmost consideration of all small firms in contracts with the State, county or municipality.
17. We demand a land reform suitable to our needs, provision of a law for the free expropriation of land for the purposes of public utility, abolition of taxes on land and prevention of all speculation in land.
18. We demand struggle without consideration against those whose activity is injurious to the general interest. Common national criminals, usurers, profiteers (Schieber) and so forth are to be punished with death, without consideration of confession or race.
19. We demand substitution of a German common law in place of the Roman Law serving a materialistic world-order.
20. The state is to be responsible for a fundamental reconstruction of our whole national education program, to enable every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education and subsequently introduction into leading positions. The plans of instruction of all educational institutions are to conform with the experiences of practical life. The comprehension of the concept of the State must be striven for by the school (Staatsbüergerkunde) as early as the beginning of understanding. We demand the education at the expense of the State of outstanding intellectually gifted children of poor parents without consideration of position or profession.
21. The State is to care for the elevating national health by protecting the mother and child, by outlawing child-labor, by the encouragement of physical fitness, by means of the legal establishment of a gymnastic and sport obligation, by the utmost support of all organizations concerned with the physical instruction of the young.
22. We demand abolition of the mercenary troops and formation of a national army.
23. We demand legal opposition to known lies and their promulgation through the press. In order to enable the provision of a German press, we demand, that a: All writers and employees of the newspapers appearing in the German language be members of the race b: Non-German newspapers be required to have the express permission of the State to be published. They may not be printed in the German language c: Non-Germans are forbidden by law any financial interest in German publications or any influence on them and as punishment for violations the closing of such a publication as well as the immediate expulsion from the Reich of the non-German concerned. Publications which are counter to the general good are to be forbidden. We demand legal prosecution of artistic and literary forms which exert a destructive influence on our national life, and the closure of organizations opposing the above made demands.
24. We demand freedom of religion for all religious denominations within the state so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral senses of the Germanic race. The Party as such advocates the standpoint of a positive Christianity without binding itself confessionally to any one denomination. It combats the Jewish-materialistic spirit within and around us, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our nation can only succeed from within on the framework: common utility precedes individual utility.
25. For the execution of all of this we demand the formation of a strong central power in the Reich. Unlimited authority of the central parliament over the whole Reich and its organizations in general. The forming of state and profession chambers for the execution of the laws made by the Reich within the various states of the confederation. The leaders of the Party promise, if necessary by sacrificing their own lives, to support by the execution of the points set forth above without consideration.