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Another convention was called in April 1902, under the title of "The Organization of Nationalistic Labor in Austria ("Deutschpolitischer Arbeiterverein für Österreich"), in Saaz. In Aussig, on November 15, 1903, they reorganized with the new name of "Deutsche Arbeiterpartei in Österreich" (DAP) - the "German Workers' Party in Austria". At further party congresses, Hans Knirsch proposed to call themselves the "Nationalsozialistische" (National-Socialist) or "Deutsch-soziale" (German-social) Workers' Party. This proposal was blocked by the Bohemian groups, who did not want to copy the name of the Czech National Socialist Party. An early member of this group is Ferdinand Burschowsky , a printer from Hohenstadt (Moravia), who was active in writing and publishing.
At a party congress in Vienna in May of 1918Events January January 8 President Woodrow Wilson announces his " Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. February February 3 The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service in San Francisco as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world (11,920 feet long)., the DAP changed its name to the Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (D.N.S.A.P.) and produced a National Socialist ProgramThe National Socialist Program also referred to as the 25-point program was developed to formulate the party policies of, first, the Austrian German Workers Party (or DAP) and was copied later by Adolf Hitler's Nazi party. It is an amalgamation of demands which is thought to have influenced the later German Nazi manifesto. The Austrian DNSAP split into two factions in 1923, the Deutschsozialen Verein (German Social Association) led by Dr. Walter Riehl , and the Schulz-Gruppe. It also split into its nationalist groups like the Sudeten German National Socialist PartyThe Sudetendeutsche nationalsozialistische Partei or Sudeten German National Socialist Party was created when the new state of Czechoslovakia outlawed the DNSAP, the "German National Socialist Workers Party". At the end of WWI, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After 1926 most former DNSAP members became supporters of the German NSDAP led by Hitler and were one of the chief elements leading the pro-Nazi coup in 1938 that brought about the AnschlussThe general German term Anschluss is part of the specific political incident Anschluss Osterreichs referring to the inclusion of Austria in a "Greater Germany" in 1938. This is opposed to earlier historic Ausschluss meaning the exclusion of Austria from G with Germany.