Parti national socialiste hitler biography
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party was a far-right political party in Germany active between 19that created....
Learn about and revise Hitler's rise to power between 19with this BBC Bitesize History (Edexcel) study guide.
Nazi Party Origins
In , army veteran Adolf Hitler, frustrated by Germany’s defeat in World War I—which had left the nation economically depressed and politically unstable—joined a fledgling political organization called the German Workers’ Party.
Founded earlier that same year by a small group of men including locksmith Anton Drexler and journalist Karl Harrer, the party promoted German nationalism and anti-Semitism, and felt that the Treaty of Versailles, the peace settlement that ended the war, was extremely unjust to Germany by burdening it with reparations it could never pay.
Hitler soon emerged as a charismatic public speaker and began attracting new members with speeches blaming Jews and Marxists for Germany’s problems and espousing extreme nationalism and the concept of an Aryan “master race.” In July , he assumed leadership of the organization, which by then had been renamed the Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ (abbreviated to Nazi) Party.
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