The Rise Of The National Socialist German Workers Party

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In this long on drawn out essay I 'm going to educate you on Hitler and the rise of the National Socialist German Workers Party . We will discuss how Hitler became so famous so quickly. We will talk about how the National Socialist German Workers Party became as powerful as it did. How Hitler became such a great leader as a purpose for the party. Also about the things that the National Socialist German Workers Party did as a whole. Hitler’s first move into politics was not even an idea of his own. In May 1919, he was selected by Captain Karl Mayr to become an Instruction Officer on the Information Department of the district command of the army. Later on that year, in August, Hitler was given the role of Educational Officer and was asked …show more content…
Hitler outlined a very precise twenty-five point programme during this meeting, that was drafted by Gottfried Feder, Anton Drexler and Adolf Hitler himself. Not much longer after the meeting that was held at Hofbrauhaus am Platzl, the DAP changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party which is most commonly know as the Nazi Party, adopting as its party symbol, at Hitler’s request, the now infamous swastika. Hitler soon left the army so he could fulfill his intentions of seizing the leadership of the National Socialist German Workers Party and making it a particular instrument of his own brand of extreme …show more content…
With a confraternity of loyal campaigners around him, Hitler pressed for the ‘committee based’ stretcher, supporter, held together by the ‘old guard’ in the National Socialist German Workers Party, to be replaced by a command structure in which a single leader would have complete in which a single leader would have absolute full control over National Socialist German Workers Party decision making. Under this announcement any National Socialist German Workers Party member wanting to underestimate or challenge the National Socialist German Workers Party leaders views, or alter the National Socialist German Workers Party programme faced immediate

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