End of WW1: -TIDE OF WAR TUENED AGAINST GERMANS/HITLER BECAME DEPRESSED -”INVISIBLE FOES OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE!” -OCT 1918 IN HOSPITAL -NOV 1918: THE NEWS/WAR WAS OVER… "There followed terrible days and even worse nights – I knew that all was lost...in these nights hatred grew in me, hatred for those responsible for this deed." -Hitler

“He’s got the gift of gab. We could use him.”-Anton Drexler Post-War Politics: -TOLD TO INVESTIGATE THE GERMAN WORKERS PARTY -DON’T ‘POKE THE BEAR’! -UNINTERRUPTED SPEECH -”MY POLITICAL AWAKENING”-BY DREXLER -INVITED TO RETURN “He’s got the gift of gab. We could use him.”-Anton Drexler

Entering Politics: -READING THE PAMPLET -STRONG NATIONALIST, PRO-MILITARY, ANTI-SEMITIC PARTY MADE UP OF WORKING CLASS PEOPLE= PERFECT! -WELCOME HITLER! -A DISORGANIZED PARTY -BECOME A MOVEMENT, NOT JUST A POLITICAL PARTY-OPPORTUNITY "I finally came to the conviction that I had to take this step...It was the most decisive resolve of my life. From here there was and could be no turning back." -DEUTSCHE ARBEITERPARTEI OR DAP/GERMAN WORKERS PARTY

Nazi Party is formed: -ENCOURAGING GWP GROWTH -HITER=THE ‘MAIN ATTRACTION’ -AGAINST TREATY OF VERSAILLES -ANTI-SEMITISM -INCREASED ATTENDENCE "I spoke for thirty minutes, and what before I had simply felt within me, without in any way knowing it, was now proved by reality: I could speak! After thirty minutes the people in the small room were electrified and the enthusiasm was first expressed by the fact that my appeal to the self-sacrifice of those present led to the donation of three hundred marks.“-Hitler

Growing Nazi Party: -PROPAGANDA -CAPTAIN ERNST ROHM -EX-SOLDIERS -THE ALIENATED -A THIRST FOR ADVENTURE

Feb. 1920: -GWP’s 1st mass meeting -2,000 people/disruptive Communists -Drowned out by applause -Political Platform (25 points) of the GWP outlined by Hitler -A success "When after nearly four hours the hall began to empty and the crowd, shoulder to shoulder, began to move, shove, press toward the exit like a slow stream, I knew that now the principles of a movement which could no longer be forgotten were moving out among the German people.“-Hitler

Official Nazi Party: -A symbol needed -Summer of 1920 -Changing the name -National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP): Nazi for short. -End of 1920 ~3,000 members "In the red we see the social idea of the movement, in the white the national idea, in the swastika the mission to struggle for the victory of Aryan man and at the same time the victory of the idea of creative work, which is eternally anti-Semitic and will always be anti-Semitic.“-Hitler

New Party Leader: -FEB 1921: SPEAKS TO OVER 6,000… -PROPAGANDA! -ROWDY, HYSTERICAL TIRADES -RISING POLITICIAN -ALLIANCE AGAINST HITLER-BAD IDEA! -LOSS OF HITLER=END OF NAZI PARTY -ALL OR NOTHING! -JULY 29, 1921: HITLER INTRODUCED FOR THE FIRST TIME AS THE FUHRER OF THE NAZI PARTY

Beer hall-1923: -TIME TO PAY -CURRENCY/SAVINGS/SALARIES/ETC… -SEPT. 1923 GERMAN GOVERNMENT GIVES IN -RESENTMENT/CHAOS -OVER 55,000 -TAKING OVER: “THE NATIONAL REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN!” -POLICE BLOCKADE -FAILURE OF NAZI REVOLUTION -LAUGHABLE END

He just had to wait: 1926-1929: The Quiet Years: Great Depression:

Germans elect Nazis: 1930-1931: Successful years: January 30, 1933: Chancellor of Germany: