What did Hitler do during the First World War?

He served as a corporal carrying messages on the Western Front and won the Iron Cross; he was in hospital recovering from gas when the fighting stopped.

When did Hitler take over the party, and with what title?

In July 1921, when he threatened to resign unless given complete control and became its Führer.

Who drew up the Twenty-Five Point Programme and when was it launched?

Hitler and Drexler wrote it, and Hitler put it to a large Munich meeting in February 1920.

Which demands in the Twenty-Five Point Programme attacked the 1919 peace settlement?

That the Treaty of Versailles be torn up, that lost land be recovered and that all German speakers be joined in one greater Germany.

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Overview

Hitler's war, the German Workers' Party and Drexler, the renaming of 1920, Hitler as Führer, the Twenty-Five Point Programme on Versailles, citizenship and socialism, and the SA and its work.

What you need to know

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Who wrote the Twenty-Five Point Programme, and what did it say about citizenship and socialism?

Key term

Why did Hitler attend a meeting of the German Workers' Party in 1919, and who led it?

Key term

What was the party renamed in 1920?

Questions from this subtopic

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1
What did Hitler do during the First World War?
Model answer
He served as a corporal carrying messages on the Western Front and won the Iron Cross; he was in hospital recovering from gas when the fighting stopped.
2
Why did Hitler attend a meeting of the German Workers' Party in 1919, and who led it?
Model answer
He was working in Munich as an army informer reporting on extreme political groups; the party had been founded that year by Anton Drexler.
3
What was the party renamed in 1920?
Model answer
The National Socialist German Workers' Party, shortened by its opponents to the Nazi Party.
4
When did Hitler take over the party, and with what title?
Model answer
In July 1921, when he threatened to resign unless given complete control and became its Führer.
5
Who drew up the Twenty-Five Point Programme and when was it launched?
Model answer
Hitler and Drexler wrote it, and Hitler put it to a large Munich meeting in February 1920.
6
Which demands in the Twenty-Five Point Programme attacked the 1919 peace settlement?
Model answer
That the Treaty of Versailles be torn up, that lost land be recovered and that all German speakers be joined in one greater Germany.

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