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The German Workers' Party (DAP) was a short-lived far-right political party which was active in Weimar Republic-era Germany from 1919 to 1920. The party was founded in Munich by Anton Drexler, Dietrich Eckart, Gottfried Feder, and Karl Harrer as the merger of the nationalist Political Workers' Circle and the voelkisch Workers' Committee for a Good Peace, and it expressed anti-Semitic, nationalist, anti-capitalist, and anti-Marxist ideas which attracted Adolf Hitler to the party in September 1919. Hitler became the DAP's spokesman, attracting 2,000 listeners for a meeting on 24 February 1920. That same day, the party renamed itself to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) to appeal to larger segments of the population.

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