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After the German defeat during WWI, Adolf Hitler began brooding about his future. Hitler came upon the idea that the Germans lost the war because of Jews and the Pacifists that "wrongfully invaded Germany." He surmised that the only way to correct the issue was to go into politics. Hitler came up with this scheme when he was 29 years old, but he had no social or political standing. Because Hitler had vowed to never again work the jobs of the common man, he stayed in the army, which provided him food, money, and shelter. One day, he was assigned a mission by a superior officer to scout out a suspicious faction. This party was called the German Workers' Party, and although Hitler was sent to spy on them, he wound up joining them instead. "My own fate became known to me. I decided to go into politics" (Shirer 25). This faction was later to be known as the Nazi organization, which Hitler was to gain political power with.

In the beginning, this party consisted of a mere seven people, but after Hitler joined, more and more people joined. After the party made their sign the Swastika, many Germans were attracted to the party, and the numbers or members swelled rapidly. A few days after Hitler joined, he was given the role of the keynote to a speech about the benefits of joining the party. This was the turning point in Hitler's political popularity. After giving a 30 minute speech, he had stolen the crowd from the party president. With a simple keynote address, Hitler was able to turn the heads of many people, and power seemed to just flock to him after that. Two years later, after taking complete control of the party, changed its name to The National Socialist German Workers' Party,or The Nazi Party for short. Hitler took the name of Fuhrer, or absolute leader, and lead the organization as he pleased. By the autumn of 1923, Hitler was ready to stage an uprising to gain the full power of Germany and take over the German Republic.

Soon after taking control of the Nazi Organization, Hitler administrated The Beer Hall Putsch, which was a rebellion that took place in a major beer hall. He and the Nazi Party abducted the triumvirate of the German republic, which consisted of three major politicians: Gustav von Kahr, General Otto von Lossow, and Colonel Hans von Seisser. Hitler's plan was to make these three politicians swear loyalty to the rebellion, and to make even higher powers swear because of it. However, none of the politicians would swear to, so Hitler lied to the public and stated that they had in fact sworn their loyalty to the Nazi Organization. Because of these false facts, General Erich Ludendorff, a great German war hero, swore his loyalty to the Nazi party. After hearing him swear this, the triumvirate also swore fealty. However, while this was going on, a large German military force cut off the Nazis' escape, and Hitler ran away to the country.

He took this time to think up a new strategy, and after a while, he met up with Ludendorff, who was still loyal to him, and talked him into forming a coup de tat. After recuperating in the country, Hitler and Ludendorff led the Nazi Party, well armed with pistols and rifles, against the German defenses. As a few shots were fired, the result was three policemen dead and 16 Nazi's dead. All the rest of the Nazi's were on the ground, shaking, except for Ludendorff. Hitler had already escaped via car after the shots were fired. Ludendorff strode boldly onwards, by himself, and not even the bold fuhrer followed him. After this failure, Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison, where he pondered how to successfully pull off a coup.

After finally being released after only one year out of the five original years, Hitler was ready to restart. Although he was not allowed to make public speeches and the Nazi Party was banned, he wrote a book called My Struggles. This book sold more than every other book than the bible, and make Hitler a millionaire. This book shared all of Hitler's ideas on how to make the perfect country, including the destruction of France, the "fixing" of the Jews, and the demolishing of the German democratic republic. After this book was written, Hitler was on the fast track to becoming an influential person in Germany. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. Now he just had one more step to become the dictator of the new Germany. By implementing his new designs and ideas for the perfect government, Hitler became the dictator, the Fuhrer, of Nazi Germany.  