The creators of the Nazi party in Germany:
- Anton Drexler (an uneducated alcoholic)
- Dietrich Eckart (an unsuccessful playwright, patient of a mental institution)
- Gottfried Feder (an economics crank with outrageous theories)
- Ernst Roehm (a closet homosexual and psychotic army bully, whom Hitler will later execute)
- Adolf Hitler (a school dropout, fake painter, failed architecture enrollee)
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And the man to later take on the role of “intellectual and philosophical leader” of the Nazi party, Chief editor of Hitler’s daily Voelkischer Beobachter newspaper?
Hold on to your butts, gentlemen.
Alfred Rosenberg who went under the nickname “the Russian”. Born in Czarist Empire in Estonia, a graduate of the University of Moscow, lived in Moscow through the Bolshevik Revolution and planned to join them, but ended up in Munich instead as an activist in White Russian émigré circles.
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The future Marshall Goering was wounded in Hitler’s failed putsch of 1924 in Munich, and the only thing to save him from being arrested on the spot was a Jewish family who pulled him off the street, treated his bullet wound and smuggled him off to Austria, where he hid from justice until Hitler came to power.