NAZISM
The National Socialist German Workers' Party almost died one
morning in 1919. It numbered only a few dozen grumblers' it had no
organization and no political ideas. But many among the middle class
admired the Nazis' muscular opposition to the Social Democrats. And the
Nazis themes of patriotism and militarism drew highly emotional responses
from people who could not forget Germany's prewar imperial grandeur.
In the national elections of September 1930, the Nazis garnered
nearly 6.5 million votes and became second only to the Social Democrats as
the most popular party in Germany. In Northeim, where in 1928 Nazi
candidates had received 123 votes, they now polled 1,742, a respectable ...
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the pure, in opposition to an establishment populated by the elderly,
the weak, and the dissolute.
Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. As a young boy,
he showed little ambition. After dropping out of high school, he moved to
Vienna to study art, but he was denied the chance to join Vienna academy
of fine arts.
When WWI broke out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmer's army as a
Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature of a
Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by that war and its
consequences. He had emerged from Austria with many prejudices, including
a powerful prejudice against Jews. Again, he was a product of his
times... for many Austrians and Germans were prejudiced against the Jews.
In Hitler's case the prejudice had become maniacal it was a
dominant force in his private and political personalities. Anti-Semitism
was not a policy for Adolf Hitler--it was religion. And in the Germany of
the 1920s, stunned by defeat, ...
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organizing defenses against the Nazi coup. Hitler was of course
furious. And he was far from finished. At about 11 o'clock on the morning
of November 9--the anniversary of the founding of the German Republic in
1919--3,000 Hitler partisans again gathered outside the Brgerbrukeller.
To this day, no one knows who fired the first shot. But a shot
rang out, and it was followed by fusillades from both sides. Hermann G
ring fell wounded in the thigh and both legs. Hitler flattened himself
against the pavement; he was unhurt. General Ludenorff continued to march
stolidly toward the police line, which parted to let him pass through (he
was later arrested, tried and acquitted). Behind him, ...
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