The Nazis
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National Socialist German Workers' Party
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei |
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| Führer |
Anton Drexler (1920–1921) Adolf Hitler (1921–1945) Martin Bormann (1945) |
| Founder | Anton Drexler |
| Founded | 24 February 1920 |
| Dissolved | 10 October 1945 |
| Preceded by | German Workers' Party |
| Headquarters | Brown House, Munich, Germany |
| Newspaper | Völkischer Beobachter |
| Student wing | National Socialist German Students' League |
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| Paramilitary wings |
Sturmabteilung Schutzstaffel |
| Sports body | National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise |
| Women's wing | National Socialist Women's League |
| Membership | Fewer than 60 (1920) 8.5 million (1945) |
| Ideology |
Nazism Pan-Germanism |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Colours |
Black, white, red (official, German imperial colours) Brown (customary) |
| Slogan | "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" (English: "One People, One Nation, One Leader") (unofficial) |
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The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: 
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei , abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party (/ˈnɑːtsi/), was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and practised the ideology of Nazism. Its precursor, the German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; DAP), existed from 1919 to 1920.
The party emerged from the German nationalist, racist, and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post-World War I Germany. The party was created as a means 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, although such aspects were later downplayed in order to gain the support of industrial entities, and in the 1930s the party's focus shifted to anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist themes.
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