During the Great War, Adolf Hitler laid blame on Jews and Marxists in Germany for undermining the war effort. That was the germination of his hatred towards Jews.
Hitler joins the German Workers' Party in 1920. He had joined politics. The German Workers' Party name was changed by Hitler to include the term National Socialist. Thus the full name was the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) called for short, Nazi.
The Beer Hall Putsch. After its failure many wrote off Hitler. They were wrong.
Hitler was tried for the uprising but the judges were sympathetic towards him. He got a light sentence and was taken to the old fortress at Landsberg and given a spacious private cell.
Hitler never actually sat down and pecked at a typewriter or wrote longhand, but instead dictated it to Rudolph Hess while pacing around his prison cell in 1923-24 and later at an inn at Berchtesgaden.
The Great Depression gave the chance Hitler was waiting for.
In the 1930 elections Germans voted to make the Nazi party the second largest in the country.
In 1933 Hitler became German chncellor.
The burning of the Reichstag in 1933 was another step in the march to total power over germany for Hitler. Van der Lubbe, the Communist arsonist, was tried and convicted, then beheaded. It gave Hitler enough ammunition against the communists.
The Enabling Act of 1933 made Hitler the dictator of Germany. Hitler with Germany's hero Field Marshal Hindenburg.
This American newspaper rightly described Hitler
[SHS St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Cartoon Collection, June 4, 1940]
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