Hitler

Hitler

National Socialism Hitler Assumes Complete Leadership

Introduction to Hitler

Some time after the meeting of February 1920, Hitler’s party changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The new party grew slowly, and principally in Bavaria. Convinced of the necessity, indeed, the value, of violence to achieve its ends, the party soon organized the Sturmabteilung (Storm Troops), or SA, to defend its meetings; to disrupt the meetings of liberal democrats, socialists, Communists, and trade unionists; and to persecute Jews, especially Jewish merchants. It was aided in these activities by some disaffected army officers, notably Ernst Röhm.

In 1921 Hitler was elected “unlimited chairman” of the party, which in the same year adopted as its official emblem a flag consisting of a red field in the center of which was a large white circle containing a black swastika. In 1923 Hitler established the newspaper Völkischer Beobachter (People’s Observer) as the official daily party organ. As the German Communist Party, founded in 1919, grew in strength, the National Socialists concentrated much of their propaganda on denunciations of Bolshevism, which they characterized as a conspiracy of international Jewish financiers. They also proclaimed their contempt for parliamentary democracy and agitated for a dictatorship.” (1)

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