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The origin of the Nazi Party itself was a small group called The German Workers Party, founded by a locksmith named Anton Drexler who, in 1918, had set up a “Committee of Independent Workmen” in reaction to the [[Marxism]]  of the free trade unions. A year later The German Workers Party was formed when this merged with another group, the Political Workers Circle. <ref>Shoah Resource Center, http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%205946.pdf </ref> <ref>German Culture.com, http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/weekly/aa012400b.htm</ref>
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The origin of the Nazi Party itself was a small group called The German Workers Party, founded by a locksmith named Anton Drexler who, in 1918, had set up a “Committee of Independent Workmen” in reaction to the [[Marxism]]  of the free trade unions. A year later The German Workers Party was formed when this merged with another right wing group, the Political Workers Circle. <ref>Shoah Resource Center, http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%205946.pdf </ref> <ref>German Culture.com, http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/weekly/aa012400b.htm</ref>
    
It was Adolph Hitler, who joined the party and was put in charge of propaganda in 1920, who transformed this small group into what we now know as the Nazi Party. That same year the words “National Socialist” were added to the party name and it became “The National Socialist German Workers Party” (N.S.D.A.P.)  Storm Troopers in the distinctive brown uniforms that would become their trademark were organized, first to kick out hecklers at Nazi meetings, then to break up the meetings of other parties. The hakenkreuz, or the [[Swastika]], was adopted as the party’s flag. By the following summer, Hitler himself had taken over as leader of the party.
 
It was Adolph Hitler, who joined the party and was put in charge of propaganda in 1920, who transformed this small group into what we now know as the Nazi Party. That same year the words “National Socialist” were added to the party name and it became “The National Socialist German Workers Party” (N.S.D.A.P.)  Storm Troopers in the distinctive brown uniforms that would become their trademark were organized, first to kick out hecklers at Nazi meetings, then to break up the meetings of other parties. The hakenkreuz, or the [[Swastika]], was adopted as the party’s flag. By the following summer, Hitler himself had taken over as leader of the party.
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