the seventh of March, 1918. Drexler's union consisted of about forty

members, most of whom were railwaymen, that were banded together by

shared sentiments of fierce nationalism, anti-Semitism, and support

for the war effort. Previous to the end of World War I, this small

union carried the rather verbose title of the "Free Labor Committee

for a Good Peace." At this time the organization adhered to a rather

straightforward program-"Strikers, Bolsheviks, Jews, malingerers, and

war profiteers were the enemy, and it was the duty of the workers to

unite behind the war effort." (Payne, 135) However, after the

disastrous conclusion to the war, Drexler's union, having changed

its name to the "German Worker's Party," lacked any coherent program

and was on the brink of collapse when Hitler inadvertently stepped

When this happened the party ceased to be Drexler's partly; it

became Hitler's. The German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei)

became the foundation of the Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche

Arbeiterpartei, commonly abbreviated as the NAZI party. Hitler's

force behind the party. He made all of the decisions and had confirmed

1) We demand the union of all Germans in a Great Germany on the basis

should choose to return to the party, they will feel extremely honored

wrote in one article that he had felt as if "a wolf had been born,

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