NAZI PARTY | Birth, January 5, 1919

The original name of the Nazi Party, the
German Workers Party.

January 5, 2020 – This day in 1919, the German Workers' Party was created. Hitler joined it later in the year and it became his Nazi Party.

On September 12, 1919, Corporal Adolf Hitler was sent by the German Army to investigate the Workers’ Party, which by its name seemed to have Bolshevik leanings. 

Hitler was not impressed with the 25 people he found in the back of a Munich beer hall. He didn’t like what their leader said, and told them all so. https://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/joins.htm

The group, however, was impressed and invited him to join them. He did. The group became the Nazi Party. Within a year it had 2,000 members. In 1921, Hitler became its leader. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/nazi-party

By 1928, the Nazi Party had 100,000 members. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-reichstag-fire-and-nazis-rise-power-180962240/

The Crash of 1929 gave Hitler the opening he needed. By 1934, he became Germany’s dictator. https://nyctimetraveler.blogspot.com/2016/08/hitler-aug-19-becomes-president-and.html