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⟶ Updated 27 Sep 2018 ⟶
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Moves to Munich after leaving the military hospital. Remains in the army.
Anton Drexler sets up the German Worker's Party (DAP) - It initially has between 20 and 40 members.
Spring: Is assigned to an army 'education unit' where he attended army indoctrination classes and gave talks to others. He was then used as an agent investigating local extremist parties.
Makes public comments on the 'Jewish Question' in a lecture to soldiers.
Attends a DAP meeting. he speaks out and is asked to join - he immediately becomes part of the parties' board. Hitler immediately puts more work into the party than other members soon becoming its head of propaganda.
Delivers a speech at his first public meeting. He descovers 'I could speak'.
DAP becomes the National Socialist Germany Workers' Party or the Nazi Party for short. It adopts the Swastika as its logo and produces a radical 25 point programme. Hitler played a large role in this and puts his artistic talents towards publicity material.
Leaves army. Spends months giving speeches during which he develops his anti-semitism and talks about its link to Bolshevism/Communism. His simple, crude and raw speeches appeal to the crowds in Bavarian beer halls in easy party intellectuals cannot.
The party buys a newspaper through which to publish its view.
Becomes party chairman, with dictatorial powers, after threatening to resign over difference of opinion with other leaders.
The party organised armed squads calls ‘Gymnastic and sport detachments’.
Makes a speech to the SA in which he claims that the ‘Jewish Question’ was his ‘single, total and exclusive’ concern.
Party has now grown to have 45 branches, mainly in Bavaria. By the end of the year it will have 20,000 members.
Nazi Party banned in most German states (but not Bavaria) because of its violent tendencies.
Hitler briefly imprisoned for inciting violence at a political meeting. A cuff of personality begins to develop around him.
The folkish group, a far-right party based in Nuremberg merges with the Nazi party, with Hitler as a leader.
Hitler by this point clearly stated that he wanted to destroy the ‘power of international Jewry’, annihilate communism, and take through force, land from Russia to creates‘ living space (lebensraum)’ for the German people.
First ‘Reich Party Rally’ in Munich. Speakers criticise the Weimar government. Hitler begins to consider overthrowing the government.
The SA join with other Bavarian paramilitaries and becomes more militarised.
SA placed under the command of Nazi party member and former WW1 fighter pilot, Herman Poering.
The Munich Putsch