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40 Facts About Adolf Hitler and His Dramatic Fall

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Hitler’s German Workers’ Party (DAP) membership card. Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain.

33. Anton Drexler Influenced His Growing Anti-Semitism

After the war ended, Hitler remained in the military and monitored the German Workers’ Party. The party, which had been founded by Anton Drexler, was nationalist, anti-Marxist, anti-communist, and anti-Semitic. Hitler claimed that his anti-Semitism was rooted in his years of struggle in Vienna, but it more likely began under Drexler.

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