“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don’t ask for their love; only for their fear,” Heinrich Himmler, leader of the Waffen-SS and prominent member of the Nazi Party. The Nazi Party was founded after WWI by veterans and revolutionaries hoping to see a change in their countries’ civilian-led government. Led by Adolf Hitler, the Nazi party became the only political party in Germany from 1933-1945 using religious like nationalism, racism, and taking advantage of a loss of hope felt by the German people during the Great Depression to build their reputation. When Adolf Hitler began his pursuit of political power in 1919, he was only one man with ideas about political and racial issues,
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Adolf volunteered at the age of 25 where he trained in a Bavarian Regiment becoming a message courier carrying messages from the front line back to the German command. His regiment 's first battle against the Allied powers was disastrous, with 2,500 of the 3,000 men either being killed, captured or wounded, Hitler walked away from the battle without a scratch. It wasn’t until October 7, 1916, where Hitler was first injured in the Battle of Somme, where he took a fragment of a shell to the leg requiring hospitalization back in Germany. After recovering from the injury, Hitler was given several weeks of break where he toured Berlin acquiring even more anti-semitic thoughts blaming the apathy felt by the German public for the war effort on the …show more content…
It was here that Adolf was first introduced to the German Workers’ Party after having been assigned to investigate the group in September 1919. He attended his first meeting on September 12th, 1919 where he was disgusted with what some of the members were saying about the weakness of the German State. He stood up and gave a fifteen-minute speech against them impressing most of the Party members there, with many of them agreeing amongst themselves that they could use him and his way of speaking. After the meeting, Hitler was given a pamphlet called “My Political Awaking”, which reflected many of Hitler’s political ideas. Even though it took him several days of deliberation to come to a decision, he decided to join the organization, although he was unimpressed by the condition of the party describing it as "aside from a few directives, there was nothing, no program, no leaflet, no printed matter at all, no membership cards, not even a miserable rubber
Adolf volunteered at the age of 25 where he trained in a Bavarian Regiment becoming a message courier carrying messages from the front line back to the German command. His regiment 's first battle against the Allied powers was disastrous, with 2,500 of the 3,000 men either being killed, captured or wounded, Hitler walked away from the battle without a scratch. It wasn’t until October 7, 1916, where Hitler was first injured in the Battle of Somme, where he took a fragment of a shell to the leg requiring hospitalization back in Germany. After recovering from the injury, Hitler was given several weeks of break where he toured Berlin acquiring even more anti-semitic thoughts blaming the apathy felt by the German public for the war effort on the …show more content…
It was here that Adolf was first introduced to the German Workers’ Party after having been assigned to investigate the group in September 1919. He attended his first meeting on September 12th, 1919 where he was disgusted with what some of the members were saying about the weakness of the German State. He stood up and gave a fifteen-minute speech against them impressing most of the Party members there, with many of them agreeing amongst themselves that they could use him and his way of speaking. After the meeting, Hitler was given a pamphlet called “My Political Awaking”, which reflected many of Hitler’s political ideas. Even though it took him several days of deliberation to come to a decision, he decided to join the organization, although he was unimpressed by the condition of the party describing it as "aside from a few directives, there was nothing, no program, no leaflet, no printed matter at all, no membership cards, not even a miserable rubber