On this day in 1920, Adolf Hitler presented the 25-point program of the National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazi Party) to a meeting of 2,000 supporters and party members at the first public Nazi rally in Munich, Germany. The program served as an ideological road map for the Party’s agenda, but its rhetoric concerning public welfare was overshadowed by the antisemitic and racist tenets that were its foundation. The program had two overriding concerns: concentrating power in the hands of the state and excluding Jews from German society.Throughout the program, Hitler and his associates emphasized a commitment to preserving a pure Aryan race; the right to self-determination was understood in terms of bloodlines. Thus, Hitler declared, “None but the members of the nation may be citizens of the state. None but those of German blood, whatever their creed may be. No Jew, therefore, may be a member of the nation.” Voting rights were then stripped from the Jews, as were any benefits provided by the state for the welfare of livelihood and old-age protections. Furthermore, the program demanded that all non-Germans that emigrated to Germany since 1914, exit the country immediately. The program took special aim at war profiteering and what it defined as ‘non-laboring income’, both of which were subtle attacks on the stereotypical assumptions about the role Jews played in the economy. Finally, the program called for a positive Christian take on “the Jewish-materialistic materialism spirit.” During the decade to follow, Hitler would refuse to revise the program, insisting its points were inviolable. Declaring the ideas contained in the program beyond reconsideration, as essential truths for Germany, was part of its propagandistic appeal. This meeting in Munich established the blueprint for the party that would take power in Germany 13 years later, and launch a genocidal attack on the Jews of Europe.