LECTURE  2:

Adolf Hitler:  Portrait of an Artist as Young Man &
The Roots and Founding of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP)

·        Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945)

·        Alois Schickelgruber

·        Vienna

·        Ostara

·        Munich

·        16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment “List”

·        November 9th Revolution (1918)

·        “Stab in the Back”

·        Friedrich Ebert (1871 – 1925)

·        SPD — German Social Democrat Party  — (Socialdemokratische Partei  Deutschlands)

·        Spartacists

·        KPD — German Communist Party (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands)

·        Rosa Luxemburg

·        Freikorps – Free Corps

·        Weimar Constitution – Weimar Republic

·        Article 48

·        Reichstag

·        proportional representation

·        NSDAP – Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei – (Nazi)–  (National Socialist German Workers’ Party)

·        Versailles Treaty

·        Twenty-Five Points – February 3, 1920  [ Link ]  updated

·        Rudolf Hess (1894-1987)

·        Dietrich Eckart (1868-1923)

·        SA (Sturmabteilung) Storm Troopers

·        Thule Society

·        hyperinflation

·        Ruhr occupation

·        Beer Hall Putsch – November 8-9, 1923

·        Eric Ludendorff

·        Mein Kampf  (My Struggle)

·        Fuhrer

·        Volkische Beobachter

·        Blood Flag – Blood Banner

·        Julies Streicher (1885 – 1946)

·        Der Sturmer

·        Alfred Rosenberg (1893 – 1946)

·        Protocols of the Learned  Elders of Zion

NSDAP Memberships Numbers 1919: 500 (estimated) 1920: 3,000 1921: 6,000 1922: 10,000 1923: 35,000 (Jan) 1923: 55,000 (Nov) 1924: ? 1925: 27,000

Suggested Readings – Sources:

Peter Fritzsche, Germans into Nazis

Roderick Stackelber, Hitler’s Germany:  Origins, Interpretations, Legacies

Conan Fischer, ed., The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Classes in Weimar Germany

Richard J. Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich

Joachim Fest, Hitler 

Karl Dietrich Bracher, The German Dictatorship

Jackson J Spielvogel, Hitler and Nazi Germany

Eugene Davidson, The Making of Adolf Hitler

Konrad Heiden, The Fuhrer

David Lewis, The Man Who Invented Hitler

Lothar Machtan, The Hidden Hitler

Robert Waite, The Psychopathic God Adolf Hitler

Peter Levenda, Unholy Alliance:  A History of Nazi Involvement With the Occult

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism:  The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935 

Peter Padfield, Hess:  The Fuhrer’s Deputy