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Chapter 533 The Birth of a Demon

When the cloud of world war hangs over the world, the devil born in Vienna is quietly rising!This man was Hitler.

Before the red storm swept across Austria, Vienna, the heart of Europe, had a unique cheerful atmosphere and charming charm that no capital in the world had.Not only in terms of architecture, sculpture, music, but also in terms of people's love of culture and pursuit of elegant spiritual life, Vienna can breathe the breath of gorgeous Baroque art that no other city has.

Of course, Vienna, like all other cities, has a large mass of poor, proletarians who are malnourished, ragged, and living in slums.But as the capital of the empire, and as the largest industrial center in Central Europe, Vienna was fairly prosperous.The lower middle class was large and politically active, workers were joining trade unions, and the power of the Social Democratic Party was growing rapidly.The democratic forces are crowding out the long and decadent autocratic forces of the Habsburg dynasty.A penniless young man also has the opportunity to receive higher education, or, like a large number of workers, to work in a factory and become a self-reliant laborer.

However, the young Hitler did not try to realize his ambition of entering the architecture department.He didn't apply for admission at all.Nor did he want to learn any trades.Instead, he preferred to do odd jobs like sweeping snow, beating carpets and carrying luggage at the station.

Hunger drove Hitler from street to street.He often slept on a bench in the park or in the gate of any house at night, and ate cheap food in taverns and waiting rooms during the day.

A vagabond, Hitler showed a preternatural interest in politics, practicing his oratory in Vienna's poor inns, soup kitchens, and audiences on the streets.

At the same time, he also read a large number of anti-Semitic books, which further increased his racial prejudice and hatred of Jews.

In the spring of 1897, Hitler left Vienna for Germany in a mood of pessimism and disappointment.However, after coming to Germany, Hitler's "genius" has not yet been revealed.On the streets of Munich, he is still empty-handed, unaccompanied and without a formal job.

However, the world war that broke out this summer gave him a turning point.

On August 8, he persistently wrote to King Ludwig III of Bavaria, applying to volunteer to join the Bavarian Infantry Regiment, which was approved.

Hitler joined the army in Munich, served as a corporal signalman, and suffered a lot.In autumn, during a battle with Britain, Hitler was temporarily blinded by poisoning and came to an army hospital near Berlin to recuperate.

While Hitler was gloomy and helpless, a pastor came to the hospital one gloomy Sunday to announce a depressing and terrible news to the wounded soldiers.On that Sunday morning, the pastor said, the Kaiser had abdicated and had taken refuge in China.After this, Germany declared the Weimar Republic.The pastor choked up as he spoke, and it was obvious that he admired Kaiser Wilhelm II very much.

When Hitler heard the news, it was like a bolt from the blue, his eyes suddenly went dark, he stumbled and groped back to the ward, threw himself on the bed, and buried his feverish head in the blanket.I thought to myself, everything was in vain.All sacrifices and hardships were in vain.What fate will the new Germany bring to itself?

Hitler was wounded twice in the war. After medical recovery in Germany, he returned to the Liszt regiment and was promoted to corporal. In the summer of the same year, he participated in the Battle of Aspen and the third Battle of Ypres.

During the war he was twice awarded, an Iron Cross Second Class and an Iron Cross First Class.In the German army at that time, the latter medal was rarely awarded to ordinary soldiers, because he captured fifteen British soldiers alone.

After hearing the news of William's abdication, he could not admit the fact that the Kaiser had always been his spiritual leader, so he stubbornly believed that Germany was stabbed in the back by domestic conspirators.

After that, Hitler decided to devote himself to politics.Since then, Hitler has devoted himself to the criminal activities of anti-communism, anti-socialism, and opposition to the New Republic.It turned out to be a fateful decision not just for Hitler, but for the entire world.

However, this stubborn Austrian has no relatives, no family, no job, no professional skills, no normal job, and no strong political background. It is simply impossible for him to seek political development in Germany.

He returned to Munich, the capital of Bavaria, and found that the city where he lived was almost beyond recognition.There was also a revolution here, and the Wittelsbach king had abdicated.Bavaria is now in the hands of the Social Democrats, who have formed a Bavarian Republic.

Under such circumstances, the ambitious Hitler corporal began his political activities.After returning to Munich, he joined the investigative committee of the Second Corps to provide intelligence for its suppression of the revolutionary left.Apparently, Hitler's contribution in this matter was considered valuable, so the army continued to employ him, sending him to work in the information bureau of the political department of the local military district command.Later, he was sent to a political training class, where Hitler's anti-Semitic fallacies were appreciated by the superior officers, and he was soon promoted to be an instructor in a regiment in Munich. fight.

One day in September 1899, Hitler received an order from the Army Political Department to investigate a small political group in Munich calling itself the German Workers' Party.So he was ordered to attend the party rally.Only twenty-five people attended the meeting, which took place in a gloomy room in the Sternakerbrau beer hall.Hitler sat from the beginning to the end of the meeting, feeling that the meeting was very dull, and he did not have a good impression at all.It was a civil engineer named Feder who spoke at the meeting, "In addition to creative and productive capital, there is also a speculative capital, and this speculative capital is the cause of most of Germany's economic problems."

After Feder's speech, Hitler felt bored, and when he was about to leave, a professor stood up, refuted Feder's arguments, and suggested that Bavaria break away from Prussia and form a South German state with Austria.This was a popular idea in Vienna at the time, but it drew Hitler's ire.He stood up and lashed out at the learned gentleman, causing the professor to slip away with his tail between his legs like a underdog, while the rest of the audience stared dumbfounded at the unknown.

After Hitler left the meeting place, someone suddenly caught up from behind and thrust a pamphlet into his hand.This man was Anton Drexler, the real founder of National Socialism.

Hitler didn't pay much attention to it at the time, and read the pamphlet carefully early the next morning.The title of the pamphlet is "My Political Awareness".To Hitler's surprise, it reflected many of the ideas he himself had established over the past few years.Drexler's main goal was to create a party based on the working class, and these aroused Hitler's great interest.

On that day, Hitler was surprised to receive a postcard, informing him that he had been absorbed as a member of the German Workers' Party and inviting him to a party meeting.The meeting was held in a tavern.Sitting around a table under a dim gas lamp were four young men who first read the minutes of the previous meeting and voted for the secretary.Then the treasurer made a report on the accounts, and also voted for the treasurer.This was also recorded in the minutes of the meeting.Hitler was very tired of watching such a mechanical program one by one.

But there was something about these little people sitting in this dimly lit back room that appealed to him: the party would provide a good shield for his political involvement.

After two days of brain-wrenching thinking, Hitler finally decided to join the party.At the meeting of the Workers' Party, he said, "This is the most decisive decision in my life. After taking this step, there is no way out, and there is no way out." Adolf Hitler became Appointed the No.7 member of the German Workers' Party Committee.

The various thoughts that had been boiling in his mind after joining this party now found an outlet.He pushed their formerly timid committees into organizing larger gatherings, but his work often hit a brick wall, and he was not discouraged when he sent out 80 invitations and it was still seven of their own.Then he raised some money and put an announcement in the local paper for the meeting, and the success was nothing short of astonishing, with 7 people present.Hitler was originally scheduled to make his first public speech at this meeting.However, Haller, the nominal head of the party, objected. He believed that Hitler was fine for other tricks, but he was not qualified for speeches.Hitler risked failure and tried to speak for 111 minutes, but had unpredictable results.His provocative eloquence made the audience excited like an electric shock, and the response was unprecedentedly enthusiastic. After the meeting, everyone also donated 30 marks to the organization.

After this meeting, Hitler took over the party's propaganda work.He immediately began organizing one of the largest gatherings, in the ballroom of the Hofbrauhaus beer hall, which could accommodate 2000 people.Hitler's companions on the committee thought he was crazy for doing so.Haller resigned in protest and was succeeded by Drexler, who also expressed doubts.But Hillert was unmoved. He attached great importance to this rally and held it successfully.At this rally, Hitler articulated for the first time the 25-point program of the German Workers Party, which was adopted at the meeting.Since then, the Workers' Party's reputation has been greatly shaken.

On April 1900, 4, the German Workers Party officially changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, referred to as the Communist Party.

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