Adolph Hitler
...Lanz von Liebenfels influenced his radical anti-Semitic views that became the center of the beliefs of the Nazi party. After serving in the German army during World War I, Hitler found work as a political officer. As part of his job, Hitler attended a meeting of the so-called German Workers' party, a nationalist, anti-Semitic, and socialist group, in September 1919. Hitler became the most influential speaker and propagandist, increasing the number of members to 6,000 by 1921. In that same year, Hitler became the Führer of the Nazi party. Due to the economic slump in Germany during the 1920’s, membership skyrocketed to 56,000 members in 1923. In November of that same year, the Nazi party staged the Beer Hall Putsch in which they hoped to force the conservative-nationalist Bavarian government of Gustav von Kahr to cooperate with him in a rightist "March on Berlin." It failed and Hitler was imprisoned for a year for treason. While in jail, Hitler wrote his famous Mein Kampf. In this, he laid down...