National Socialist German Workers Party

The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: {{Audio|de-NSDAP.ogg|Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei}}), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. The term Nazi is a short form of the German word Nazionalsozialist shortened to the first two syllables, and spelled with -zi, because the ti syllable is pronounced in German (National Socialist), reflecting the ideology of the NSDAP. The NSDAP set up the Third Reich after Hitler being appointed chancellor by the president and the party being democratically elected to lead the German government in 1933.

Party symbols

• Nazi Flags: The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). Black, white, and red were in fact the colors of the old North German Confederation flag (invented by Otto von Bismarck, based on the Prussian colors black and white). In 1871, with the foundation of the German Reich, the flag of the North German Confederation became the German Reichsflagge (Reich's flag). Black, white, and red became the colors of the nationalists through the following history (for example World War I and the Weimar Republic).
• Swastika
• The Roman Eagle
• Nazi anthem: Horst Wessel Lied.