FREE ESSAY ON HITLER AND DAP

HITLER AND DAP

The German Workers' Union was conceived by Anton Drexler on 
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 
into the picture. 
Bibliography
hitler the book 1987