NSDAP

Abbreviation for National Socialist German Workers’ Party. It was founded in Munich in 1919 as the German Workers’ Party and renamed the NSDAP in 1920. At its head was Adolf Hitler, the “Führer”. Since 1933, it was the only party permitted in Germany, to which various organizations such as the SA, the SS, and the Hitler Youth (HJ) were affiliated. The party headquarters had been located in the “Brown House” on Munich’s Königsplatz since 1930. There, a party center gradually emerged with numerous authorities using more than 60 buildings, employing more than 6,000 people. Parts of the party organization also moved to Berlin after 1933. At the beginning of 1945, the NSDAP had around 8.5 million members.