There were 30 parties in Germany. The largest was Democratic Socialists. Hitler split with them in 1926.
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The Nazi Party grew out of smaller political groups with a nationalist orientation that formed in the last years of
World War I. In 1918, a league called the
Freier Arbeiterausschuss für einen guten Frieden (Free Workers' Committee for a good Peace)
[31] was created in
Bremen, Germany. On 7 March 1918,
Anton Drexler, an avid German nationalist, formed a branch of this league in
Munich.
[31] Drexler was a local locksmith who had been a member of the militarist
Fatherland Party[32] during World War I and was bitterly opposed to the
armistice of November 1918 and the revolutionary upheavals that followed. Drexler followed the views of militant nationalists of the day, such as opposing the
Treaty of Versailles, having
antisemitic, anti-monarchist and anti-Marxist views, as well as believing in the superiority of Germans whom they claimed to be part of the
Aryan "
master race" (
Herrenvolk). However, he also accused international capitalism of being a Jewish-dominated movement and denounced capitalists for war profiteering in World War I.
[33] Drexler saw the political violence and instability in Germany as the result of the
Weimar Republic being out-of-touch with the masses, especially the lower classes.
[33] Drexler emphasised the need for a synthesis of
völkisch nationalism with a form of economic
socialism, in order to create a popular nationalist-oriented workers' movement that could challenge the rise of communism and
internationalist politics.
[34] These were all well-known themes popular with various
Weimar paramilitary groups such as the
Freikorps.
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