Editing National Socialist German Workers' Party

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The '''National Socialist German Workers' Party''', commonly known as the '''Nazi Party''', was a [[Far-right|extreme-right]] [[Fascism|fascist]] [[political party]] which led the counter-revolutionary reaction against the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet Union]], officially causing the [[Second World War]].

The rise of the Nazi Party was supported by the British Royal Family and their state intelligence services as a bulwark against [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet]] [[communism]].<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Graham Hughes|title=Anglo-Nazi Pact in the 1930’s?|url=https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Anglo-Nazi-Pact/|newspaper=Historic UK|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414013454/https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Anglo-Nazi-Pact/}}</ref>

==History==
Wealthy oligarchs in the United States such as George Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush helped to finance the rise of the Nazi party up until as late as 1942.<ref>{{News citation|journalist=Ben Aris and Duncan Campbell|date=2004-09-25|title=How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>

The NSDAP was originally known as the German Workers’ Party or DAP, a merging of Anton Drexler’s Committee of Independent Workmen and Karl Harrer’s Political Workers’ Circle in January 1919. Drexler was a petit-bourgeois locksmith while Harrer was a newspaper reporter. Drexler’s original goal was to build an ultranationalist political party based on the masses of the working class,<ref>{{safesubst:citation|author=William Shirer|chapter=Birth of the Nazi Party|title=The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich|title-url=https://archive.org/stream/B-001-014-606|city=New York|publisher=Simon and Schuster, Inc.|year=1960|lccn=60-6729|page=36–7}}</ref> hence most of its original members were workers from Drexler’s railway yards, but membership was few in number. The [[Thule Society]], a largely petit-bourgeois organization of which Harrer was a member, cofounded the DAP and acted as its original protector and financial sponsor. Its goal was to popularize ultranationalism among the German working class, a for which Harrer deemed Drexler best suited. Nevertheless, the Thule Society’s financial contributions to the DAP were quite modest and the party met together in poor conditions.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|author=James & Suzanne Pool|year=1997|title=Who Financed Hitler|title-url=https://archive.org/stream/WhoFinancedHitler|chapter=A Mysterious Beginning|page=6–11|isbn=0-8037-8941-6}}</ref>

On February 20, 1920, the DAP renamed itself to the more euphemistic National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Initially, Adolf Hitler disliked the addition of the term ‘Socialist’ but acquiesced because the executive committee thought that it might help attract workers from the left-wing.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|author=Samuel W. Mitcham|title=Why Hitler?: The Genesis of the Nazi Reich|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YiNoAAAAMAAJ|publisher=Praeger|year=1996|page=68|ISBN=9780275954857}}</ref> Some members, on the other hand, may have sincerely consider themselves ‘socialists’, but only due to their frustration with their corporate competitors,<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|journalist=Leon Trotsky|title=What Is National Socialism?|url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/germany/1933/330610.htm}}</ref> whom they were more interested in reforming than abolishing.

== See also ==

* [[National Fascist Party]]
* [[FET y de las JONS]]
* [[British Union of Fascists]]

== Reference ==

[[Category:National Socialism]]
[[Category:Fascist Parties]]