History 2147A/B Lecture 3: Lecture #3
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Hitler: political career begins lecture 3: offered position as political instruction officer , within newly created propaganda unit of army, his job was to make sure that communists would not take over munich, took courses in political instruction & german history, learned he was comfortable talking in front of a large audience, was offered to give some guest lectures. Everyone noticed he had a distinctive speaking style: spoke with passion that was contagious to his audience, hitler made it his job to fight against germany"s internal enemies, dap deutsche arbeits partei, very small party at first, more of a discussion than party. Used the same colors as the imperial flag: symbolized the re newity of his country, swastika became a picture of good luck, nazi"s took a picture and completely changed it"s meaning, nsdap national soziale deutsche arbeits partei, were not actually socialist.