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which Hitler joined in 1919 and which changed it's name in 1920
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the party programmed of 1920 called for the union of all German in a greater Germany rejected the treaty of Versailles
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Hitler took over as leader of the party in 1921, with a following of ex-soldiers and middle-class youth, who organized as a paramilitary force in SA.
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After the failure the Munich Putsch in 1923, the party was banned
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When it was re-formed in 1925 Hitler was determined to gain power legally by winning elections.
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. Before 1928, when the party gained only 3 per cent of the vote and twelve seats in the Reichstag, the party membership grew only slowly, as the workers maintained their allegiance to the Social Democratic Party and many Catholics to the Centre Party.
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Between 1928-1930, party owning to the great depression and party because the Nazi allied with nationalists in membership grew only slowly.
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From 1930-1933 it became a genuine mass party, as it broadened its social base, which the social democratic and communist parties were unable to do.
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In 1931 it won 23- seats with 37 percent of the vote and became the largest party, Nazi party did not came to to power by winning a majority in the Reichstag.
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November 1932 its share of the vote fell by 4 percent to 33 percent and it was saved only by the decision of conservation politician to replace parliamentary government.
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in 1933 after Hitler became chancellor the Nazi party had 43 percent of the vote.
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in 1943 it came to dominate all aspects of German life through Gleichschaltung and affiliated organizations, such as the SS, Hitler Youth and the Labour Front, which became the main instruments of totalitarianism.
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1945 the NSDAP cased to exist and its revival was forbidden by the constitution of the German federal republic
