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included; the union of all Germans in a greater German Reich, rejection of the Treaty of Versailles, the demand for additional territories for the German people, citizenship determined by race – no Jews to be considered a German, all income not earned by work to be confiscated, reconstruction of the national education system, religious freedom except for religions which endanger the German race, and a strong central government for the execution of effective legislation. His speech lasted for nearly four hours. After which Hitler knew that a fire was started within the German people that would one day be great. Shortly after the rally he realized that he lacked one thing, a symbol or flag. He came up with the Swastika. He described the symbolism involved “In red we see the

social idea of the movement, in the white the national idea, in the swastika the mission to struggle for the victory of Aryan man and the same time the victory of the idea of creative work, which is eternally anti-Semitic and will always be anti-Semitic.” The German Workers? Party name was changed by Hitler to include the term National Socialist. Thus the full name was the National Socialist German Workers? Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) called for short, Nazi. In 1921, Adolf Hitler was becoming a highly effective speaker in front of an ever growing crowd. He was also publicly speaking louder against the Treaty of Versailles. He was upsetting the Nazi Party with his outrageous slander against the German Government. That summer while Hitler was

in a rally in Berlin, the Nazi Party formed an alliance with a group of socialists from Augsburg and wanted to put Adolf on the back burner. When Adolf received the news of what was happening he rushed back to Munich and countered them by announcing his resignation from the Party, July 11, 1921. The Party knew that without Hitler, their supporters would dwindle and that was priceless. Hitler saw this as an opportunity and said he would only stay if he became the Leader of the Nazi Party. A vote was taken and he was elected leader by a count of 543 to 1. At the next gathering, July 29, 1921 Adolf Hitler was introduced as Fuhrer of the Nazi Party making the first time that title was publicly used to address him. In April of 1921, the victorious European Allies of World War One,

notably France and England, presented a bill to Germany demanding payment for damages caused in the war which Germany had started. This bill (33 billion dollars) for war reparations had the immediate effect of causing ruinous inflation in Germany. By November, it took 4,000,000,000 marks to buy a dollar. Germans lost their life savings, Salaries were paid in worthless money. Groceries cost Billions. Hunger riots broke out. For the most part, the German government made a fateful decision to resume making payments. But the German people were growing restless. The Nazis and other similar groups now felt the time was right to strike. That November, the Nazi Party with 55,000 followers were ready for action. They had planned to kidnap the leaders of the Bavarian government and force

them at gunpoint to accept Hitler as their leader. Then, according their plan, with the aid of Erich Ludendorff, they would win over the German army, proclaim a nationwide revolt and bring down the German democratic government in Berlin. On November 8, 1923, Hitler?s plan was put into action. They stormed city hall and Hitler shot a bullet into the ceiling. He yelled “Silence!” and started shouting “The National Revolution has begun!” He and a few of his followers pulled three big shots into the back room and tried to get them to start the paperwork making him the president or dictator. At first none of them would even look at Adolf let alone talk to him. At this point he started waving his pistol around and said “I have four shots in my pistol! Three for you,

gentlemen. The last bullet for myself!” They still did not cooperate with him. Hitler ran from the room and to the podium and shouted “The government of the November criminals and the Reich President are declared to be removed. A new national government will be named this very day in Munich. A new German National Army will be formed immediately. The task of the provisional German National Government is to organize the march on that sinful Babel, Berlin, and save the German people! Tomorrow will find either a national government in Germany or us dead!” Doing this, Hitler knew that the men in the back room would listen. The men came out and faced the crowd and supported Hitler and the words he spoke. This led to everyone in the hall to cheer for Hitler and the crowd started