Edexcel GCSE History - Hitler's Rise To Power (1919-1933)

Origins of the Nazi Party

Origins of the Nazi Party

• Started as DAP

• Hitler joined and within two years turned it into NSDAP

Hitlers Alterations to the DAP

• Hitler appointed a friend from the army to be an administrator

• Hitler suggested the DAP be renamed the NSDAP

• Soon after the name change the party aadopted the swastika

• in december 1920 the party newspaper was launched

Changes in NSDAP leadership

Hitler called for a leadership election and won

He was supported by: Rudolf Hess, Herman Goering,Ernst Rohm and Julius streicher

He named himself the Fuhrer and answered to nobody

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