In a time of peace and prosperity one of the most brutal
organisations ever known to man was formed. An organisation
made up of murders, theives, and rapists. The organization we’ve
come to know as the “Nazis”.
On January 2,1919, two men by the names of Karl Harrer
and Anton Drexler founded a group called the “German
Workers’ Party”. It started out as nothing more than a few blue
collar workers getting together to gripe about the government.
Anton Drexler was described by Robert Leckie in his book
delivered from evil as a toolmaker in the munich railyard a
working man. He was a tall, spare man, as undistinguished as his
dab of mustache and ...view middle of the document...
In an instant there were volleys of
gunfire from both directions. Goring fell, shot in the thigh,
scheubner-richter was fatally wounded and, in falling, dragged
Hitler to the pavement and separated his shoulder. Nineteen
Nazis were killed and dozens were wounded. Only lundendorff
continued to march forward and was arrested on the spot. The so-
called “Beer Hall Putsch” had failed. Two days later Hitler
was arrested. Goring and Hess fled to Austria. Rohm and the
other top Nazis were rounded up and arrested. The party was
declared banned by the government. to all apperances the Nazi
party and the career of Adolf Hitler were at an end. Infact, they
had barely begun.(lace 37)
After Hitlers trial he spent a year in prison. And while he
was in prison he made the statement that once he was released from
prison, his mission was to rebuild the Nazi party into an
organization that would take power legally.(lace 43) And rebuild
is what hitler did. By the end of 1928 there were more than
100,000 members. Steadily the Nazis became more visible
throughout germany and yet with germany sharing in world
prosperity the growth of the nazi party was slow.
Hitlers strongest asset was his ability to formulate the aims of
his movement so generally and yet in such diversity that there
appered to be something in his program at some time, for nearlly
every german.(black 56) And with Hitler rising to fame the arms
cheifs gradually realised that the strength of the nazi party was
such that Hitler was the only possible successsor to Hindenburg
as the head of the german nation. So on january 30,1933, Hitler
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