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Originally Posted by Catfish
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...his own creation, the NSDAP.
The NSDAP and what you call "Nazi" was exactly Hitler's idea, plan, and execution.
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Maybe plan and execution but actually a feller named Anton Drexler created the NSDAP and it's predecessor. Old Shicklegruber took it over a year or two later. According to wiki Drexler later said he was actually member #555 but hitler falsified the record to make himself member number 1:
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Hitler later claimed to be the seventh party member (he was in fact the seventh executive member of the party's central committee[43] and he would later wear the Golden Party Badge number one). Anton Drexler drafted a letter to Hitler in 1940—which was never sent—that contradicts Hitler's later claim:No one knows better than you yourself, my Führer, that you were never the seventh member of the party, but at best the seventh member of the committee... And a few years ago I had to complain to a party office that your first proper membership card of the DAP, bearing the signatures of Schüssler and myself, was falsified, with the number 555 being erased and number 7 entered.[44]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party
Guess Anton figured sending that letter wouldn't be a healthy thing to do! :)
One other little tidbit of interest that I noticed:
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To increase its appeal to larger segments of the population, on the same day as Hitler's Hofbräuhaus speech on 24 February 1920, the DAP changed its name to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ("National Socialist German Workers' Party", or Nazi Party).[51][52][d] The word "Socialist" was added by the party's executive committee, over Hitler's objections, in order to help appeal to left-wing workers.[55]
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