Nazi Party (NSDAP) In January 1919 Anton Drexler decided to join with right-wing journalist, Karl Harrer, to form the German Worker's Party (GPW).
Other early members included Hermann Esser, Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart. Harrer was elected as chairman of the party. William L. Shirer, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1964) has argued "Anton Drexler, a locksmith by trade, who may be said to have been the actual founder of National Socialism. A sickly, bespectacled man, lacking a formal education, with an independent but narrow and confused mind, a poor writer and a worse speaker...
On 30th May, Captain Karl Mayr, was appointed as head of the Education and Propaganda Department. Anton Drexler had mixed feelings about Hitler but was impressed with his abilities as an orator and invited him to join the party. Louis L. The German Worker's Party used some of this money from Karl Mayr and Ernst Röhm to advertise their meetings. Kurt Lüdecke saw Adolf Hitler speak on 11th August 1922. Hitler’s ‘master race’ children haunted by their past. By Russell Grigg Article from:Creation29(4):32-34September 2007 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Richard Freimark.
Between 1935 and 1945, there were born some 10,000 children in Germany and an estimated 9,000 in Norway as part of a Nazi genetic engineering plan to build up an Aryan ‘master-race’ or super-breed of humanity. This scheme was known as the Lebensborn or ‘Fountain of Life’ program. Special clinics were set up where SS men1 were encouraged to mate with blue-eyed, blonde Nordic girls who had no Jewish ancestry, in order to produce ‘racially pure’ German offspring. Social Darwinism in action This was social Darwinism or eugenics in action. Full Program Description. Full Program Description Master Race Nazism overtakes German society Original broadcast: Monday, June 15 at 9pm (check local listings for re-broadcast dates) "A sea of swastikas.
Hitler's Rise to Power. At 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889, he was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria.
Adolf Hitler would one day lead a movement that placed supreme importance on a person's family tree even making it a matter of life and death. However, his own family tree was quite mixed up and would be a lifelong source of embarrassment and concern to him. His father, Alois, was born in 1837. He was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber and her unknown mate, which may have been someone from the neighborhood or a poor millworker named Johann Georg Hiedler. It is also remotely possible Adolf Hitler's grandfather was Jewish.
Holocaust Timeline: The Rise of the Nazi Party. While in prison, Hitler wrote volume one of Mein Kampf (My Struggle) , which was published in 1925.
This work detailed Hitler's radical ideas of German nationalism, antisemitism, and anti-Bolshevism. Linked with Social Darwinism, the human struggle that said that might makes right, Hitler's book became the ideological base for the Nazi Party's racist beliefs and murderous practices. This site discusses many of the ideas contained within Mein Kampf. After Hitler was released from prison, he formally resurrected the Nazi Party. Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler led Germany throughout World War Two.
Adolf Hitler killed himself on April 30th, 1945 - just days before Germany's unconditional surrender. Berlin was about to fall to the Russians and defeat for Nazi Germany was obvious. Nazi Racism. For years before Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, he was obsessed with ideas about race.
In his speeches and writings, Hitler spread his beliefs in racial "purity" and in the superiority of the "Germanic race"—what he called an Aryan "master race. " He pronounced that his race must remain pure in order to one day take over the world. For Hitler, the ideal "Aryan" was blond, blue-eyed, and tall. When Hitler and the Nazis came to power, these beliefs became the government ideology and were spread in publicly displayed posters, on the radio, in movies, in classrooms, and in newspapers. The Nazis began to put their ideology into practice with the support of German scientists who believed that the human race could be improved by limiting the reproduction of people considered "inferior. " Hitler and other Nazi leaders viewed the Jews not as a religious group, but as a poisonous "race," which "lived off" the other races and weakened them.