The Germans Worker Party was founded in 1919 by Anton Drexler, Gottfried Feder, Karl Harrer, and Dietrich Eckart to oppose the German government, the Weimar Republic. The same year, Adolf Hitler joined the Party because he agreed with the Party’s ideas which included, Jewish people were the cause of Germany’s lost in World War I. In 1920, the Party was renamed the National Socialist German Workers German Party (Nazi Party) and by 1921 Hitler became the new leader of it. In 1922, the American Intelligence reported that, “Adolf Hitler has been the dominating force in the [Nazi] movement...due to his ability to influence a popular assembly” (Poplawski and Wood 10). However, despite his oral persuasiveness, the Party was not popular and had less than 20,000 members in 1926.
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In the years between 1926 and 1930, the Great Depression took place in 1929, which leads many scholars and historians to believe that the Great Depression brought about a dramatic increase in Nazi membership and helped Hitler rise to power, due to the economic and political impact it brought about. The Wall Street crash had a huge economic impact on the German people as, “Millions were thrown out of work. Thousands of small businesses went under.” (Shirer 119). At the same time of the economic crisis, “[German] Parliamentary government was breaking down…”
In the years between 1926 and 1930, the Great Depression took place in 1929, which leads many scholars and historians to believe that the Great Depression brought about a dramatic increase in Nazi membership and helped Hitler rise to power, due to the economic and political impact it brought about. The Wall Street crash had a huge economic impact on the German people as, “Millions were thrown out of work. Thousands of small businesses went under.” (Shirer 119). At the same time of the economic crisis, “[German] Parliamentary government was breaking down…”