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Stuart G

(38,414 posts)
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 09:00 AM Aug 2015

Please don't completely dismiss the "crazy shit"..and "crazy lies" that apeal to a small minority..

The world underestimated this one, and he killed 50 to 75 million people--Adolph Hitler--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler

At the DAP, Hitler met Dietrich Eckart, one of the party's founders and a member of the occult Thule Society.[77] Eckart became Hitler's mentor, exchanging ideas with him and introducing him to a wide range of Munich society.[78] To increase its appeal, the DAP changed its name to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers Party; NSDAP).[79] Hitler designed the party's banner of a swastika in a white circle on a red background.[80]

Hitler was discharged from the army on 31 March 1920 and began working full-time for the NSDAP.[81] The party headquarters was in Munich, a major hotbed of anti-government German nationalists determined to crush Marxism and undermine the Weimar Republic.[82] In February 1921—already highly effective at speaking to large audiences—he spoke to a crowd of over 6,000.[83] To publicise the meeting, two truckloads of party supporters drove around Munich waving swastika flags and throwing leaflets. Hitler soon gained notoriety for his rowdy polemic speeches against the Treaty of Versailles, rival politicians, and especially against Marxists and Jews.[84]

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