Corporal Adolf Hitler was ordered in September, 1919 to investigate a small group in Munich known as the German Workers' Party. Jump to: navigation, search Adolf Hitler ▶(?) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor) of Germany from 1934 to his death. ... September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search For the 2005 Steven Spielberg film, see Munich (film). ... The German Workers Party (German: Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, short DAP) was a briefly existing progenitor of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party). ...

The use of the term "workers" attracted the attention of the German Army which was now involved in crushing Marxist uprisings. Jump to: navigation, search Heer (listen â–¶(?)) is the German word for army. ... Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ...

On September 12, dressed in civilian clothes, Hitler went to a meeting of the German Workers' Party in the back room of a Munich beer hall, with about twenty-five people. He listened to a speech by Gottfried Feder entitled, "How and by what means is capitalism to be eliminated?" Jump to: navigation, search September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ... The German Workers Party (German: Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, short DAP) was a briefly existing progenitor of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party). ... Gottfried Feder (January 1, 1883 - September 24, 1941) was an anti-capitalist, anti-semite and one of the early key members of the German Nazi party. ...

After the speech, Hitler began to leave when a man rose up and spoke in favour of the German State of Bavaria breaking away from Germany and forming a new South German nation with Austria. Jump to: navigation, search The Free State of Bavaria (German: Bayern or Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ...

This enraged Hitler and he spoke out forcefully against the man for the next fifteen minutes uninterrupted, to the astonishment of everyone. One of the founders of the German Workers' Party, Anton Drexler, reportedly whispered: "he's got the gift of the gab. We could use him." The German Workers Party (German: Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, short DAP) was a briefly existing progenitor of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party). ... Jump to: navigation, search Anton Drexler (June 13, 1884 - February 24, 1942) was a Munich railway locksmith, a poet and member of the völkisch agitators who, together with journalist Karl Harrer, founded the German Workers Party (DAP) in 1919. ...

After Hitler's outburst ended, Drexler hurried to Hitler and gave him a forty page pamphlet entitled: "My Political Awakening." He urged Hitler to read it and also invited Hitler to come back again.

Early the next morning, sitting in his cot in the barracks of the 2nd Infantry Regiment watching the mice eat bread crumbs he left for them on the floor, Hitler remembered the pamphlet and read it. He was delighted to find the pamphlet, written by Drexler, reflected political thinking much like his own - building a strong nationalist, pro-military, anti-semitic party made up of working class people. Nationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

A few days later, Hitler received an unexpected postcard saying he had been accepted as a member into the party. He was asked to attend an executive committee meeting, which he did. At that meeting he was joyfully welcomed as a new member although he was actually very undecided on whether to join.

In Mein Kampf, Hitler describes the conditions of the party: Cover of Mein Kampf Mein Kampf (German for My Struggle) is a book written by Adolf Hitler, combining elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitlers political ideology of Nazism. ...

"...aside from a few directives, there was nothing, no program, no leaflet, no printed matter at all, no membership cards, not even a miserable rubber stamp..."

Although unimpressed by the current condition of the German Workers' Party, Hitler was drawn to the sentiment expressed by Drexler that this would somehow become a movement not just a political party. And in this disorganised party, Hitler saw opportunity: The German Workers Party (German: Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, short DAP) was a briefly existing progenitor of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party). ...

"This absurd little organisation with its few members seemed to me to possess the one advantage that it had not frozen into an 'organisation,' but left the individual opportunity for real personal activity. Here it was still possible to work, and the smaller the movement, the more readily it could be put into the proper form. Here, the content, the goal, and the road could still be determined..."

He spent two days thinking it over and then decided.

"... I finally came to the conviction that I had to take this step... It was the most decisive resolve of my life. From here there was and could be no turning back."

Adolf Hitler joined the committee of the German Workers' Party (Deutsch Arbeiterpartei or DAP) and thus entered politics.