Nazi Party (Sect) AKA NSDAP, National Socialist German Workers' Party
Nazi Party
1920 AD - 1938 AD
AKA NSDAP, National Socialist German Workers' Party
A far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.
Its precursor, the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; DAP), existed from 1919 to 1920. The Nazi Party emerged from the extremist German nationalist, racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post–World War I Germany.
The party was created to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism. Initially, Nazi political strategy focused on anti–big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric, which was later downplayed to gain the support of business leaders.
By the 1930s, the party's main focus shifted to antisemitic and anti-Marxist themes. The party had little popular support until the Great Depression, where worsening living standards and vast unemployment drove Germans into political extremism.
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