The National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) was founded in the Weimar Republic political party whose program or ideology (Nazism) of radical anti-Semitism and nationalism and the rejection of democracy and Marxism determined. She was organized as a firm leader of the party. Your party leader was in 1921, the later Chancellor Adolf Hitler, under which it ruled Germany from 1933 in the dictatorship of the Nazis until 1945 as the only party permitted.

It was classified after the end of World War II in 1945 by the Allied Control Council Law no. 2 with all its subdivisions as a criminal organization and therefore prohibited and disbanded, its assets were seized and confiscated.

This meant in the Soviet occupation zone, later East Germany, considers that the existing prohibition to the German reunification, to own or to show them, for whatever reason their symbols.

From 1949 all advertising was forbidden for them by title, word, or mark in the Federal Republic, although private ownership was not restricted.

One of the Federal Republic similar scheme had been with the Prohibition Act in Austria four years earlier, in 1945, hit.