page_title: Early timeline of Nazism
section_title: 1920
hierarchical_section_title: Early timeline of Nazism / Weimar Republic / 1920
context_page_description: The early timeline of Nazism begins with its origins and continues until Hitler's rise to power.
context_section_description: Many Freikorps were disbanded. Some go underground, to reappear later.
  January: The DAP grows to 190 members.
  February: Inter-Allied Control Commission order 2/3 of Freikorps disbanded.
  24 February: DAP changes its name to National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP). The party announces its programme in the Hofbräuhaus, known as the "25 points."
  13 March to 17 March: Kapp Putsch
  31 March: Adolf Hitler mustered out of the army.
  April: Government stops paying Freikorps units.
  3 April: 21 different Freikorps units, under the command of General Baron Oskar von Watter, annihilate the Ruhr Uprising in five days; thousands killed.
  10 May: Dr. Joseph Wirth and Walter Rathenau announce their "Policy of Fulfillment"; not received well by nationalist groups.
  8 August: Official founding date of the NSDAP
  11 August: National Disarmament Law takes effect; disbands civil guards.
  19 August to 25 August: Second Silesian uprising, German Freikorps see more combat.
  17 December: NSDAP buys its first paper, the Völkischer Beobachter.
  31 December: NSDAP party membership was recorded at 2000.
caption: Kapp Putsch. Note the swastikas
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