Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day (a thread and history lesson)
In 1919 a young World War I veteran electrified a dissatisfied and bitter populace with his speeches in the beer halls of Bavaria
His name was Adolf Hitler
His ideas would lead to 50M dead across Europe
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Hitler as an orator spread a message against communism, socialism, non-traditional ideas, and increasingly the Jewish people
He believed that a conspiracy of leftist, led by the Jewish people sold out Germany in World War I, preventing victory
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Anton Drexler started the German Worker's Party or DAP, in 1918
In 1919 he wanted to rename it the German Socialist Worker's Party but a young Hitler objected to the name socialist being included
Drexler wanted to add the name to garner support with the middle classes
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The DAP was rooted in the concept of an Aryan master race, anti-Semitism, anti-Marxism, was against the World War I armistice, and believed Germany could have won the war
All of these ideas appealed to Hitler, who also believe Germany could have won WWI
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Among Hitler's earliest followers, Hermann Goering heard Adolf speak for the first time in 1919
Goering was a World War I hero and had liked wearing his uniform
He was badly beaten in late 1918 by a group of Communists, the injuries left him a drug addict
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