NSDAP Archive: NSDAP

The NSDAP, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), was a 'far-right' political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of National Socialism. The party was created to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism. Initially, National Socialist political strategy focused on anti–big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric; it 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, when worsening living standards and widespread unemployment drove Germans into political extremism.