Editing German Workers' Party (section)

=== From DAP to NSDAP ===
The small number of party members were quickly won over to [[Political views of Adolf Hitler|Hitler's political beliefs]]. He organized their biggest meeting yet of 2,000 people on 24 February 1920 in the ''[[Hofbräuhaus am Platzl|Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in München]]'' (a [[beer hall]] in Munich). Further in an attempt to make the party more broadly appealing to larger segments of the population, the DAP was renamed the [[Nazi Party|National Socialist German Workers' Party]] (NSDAP) on 24 February.{{sfn|Kershaw|2008|p=87}}{{sfn|Zentner|Bedürftig|1997|p=629}} Such was the significance of Hitler's particular move in publicity that Harrer resigned from the party in disagreement.{{sfn|Shirer|1960|p=40}} The new name was borrowed from a different Austrian party active at the time (the [[Austrian National Socialism|Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei]], i.e. the German National Socialist Workers' Party), although Hitler earlier suggested the party to be renamed the Social Revolutionary Party in order to distance the party from association with socialism. It was [[Rudolf Jung]] who persuaded Hitler to adopt the NSDAP name.<ref>[[Konrad Heiden]], "Les débuts du national-socialisme", Revue d'Allemagne, VII, No. 71 (Sept. 15, 1933), p. 821.</ref> The name was intended to draw upon both left-wing and right-wing ideals, with "Socialist" and "Workers'" appealing to the left, and "National" and "German" appealing to the right.<ref name="Childers DAP 2" />