Why did Hitler change The German Workers party to The Nazi party?
Adolf Hitler, then a corporal in the German army, was ordered to spy on the DAP in September 12th 1919 during one of its meetings at the Sterneckerbräu, a beer hall in the center of the city. While there, he got into a violent argument with one guest. Following this incident, Anton Drexler was impressed with Hitler’s oratory skills and invited him to join the party. After some thinking, Hitler accepted the invitation and joined in late September. After giving his first speech for the Party on October 16th in the Hofbräukeller, Hitler quickly rose up to become a leading figure in the DAP. The small number of party members were quickly won over to Hitler’s political beliefs. In an attempt to make the party more broadly appealing to larger segments of the population, the DAP was renamed on February 24, 1920 to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The name was borrowed from a different Austrian party active at the time (Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei, German Nation
