And if Hitler had not joined the Nazi party ...
A historian's research shows that Adolf Hitler first wanted to join another far-right movement, as the Guardian recounts.
The German Socialist Party rejected Adolf Hitler in 1919
It is always tempting, and easy, to rewrite the story and imagine what could have happened if only one detail was changed. This concept, which is the origin of all uchronies, was in a way treated by the German Thomas Weber, professor of history at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), as reported in the British newspaper The Guardian. Weber, who has been working for more than a decade on the life of Adolf Hitler, has discovered through documents so far unknown that the German Socialist Party (Deutschsozialistische Partei) rejected in 1919 his request for membership and its proposals for collaboration in the framework of the party's official journal.
The Deutschsozialistische Partei, also located on the extreme right of the political spectrum at the time, was then an important formation. Thomas Weber's theory is that the story could have been radically changed if Adolf Hitler had been accepted into this party. According to the historian, he could have contented himself with a less important role and never come to power in Germany. "Until the previous year, he had not shown any quality to lead, and was happy to follow orders, rather than give them," says Weber.
Rejected, Hitler will take revenge at the Nazi Party
Instead, it was in a Nazi party, the National Socialist Party of German Workers, who was born and in search of a leader in 1920, that Adolf Hitler would find the right ground for his ascent, which will lead to his appointment as Chancellor in 1933 and the beginning of the Third Reich. Thomas Weber explains that this succession of events explains Hitler's particularly vindictive attitude toward the German Socialist Party in the years that followed. "There has been a tendency to analyze Hitler's erratic and irrational behavior between his entry into the Nazi Party and the mid-1920s as that of someone who, apart from his oratorical skills, did not really have any political sensitivity, "he writes.
A theory that does not find favor in his eyes: "In my book, I show that it is not at all this way that we must apprehend. Hitler was in fact a competent and cunning politician who never forgave someone who rejected him, "adds the researcher. If Hitler had subsequently agreed to a merger between the Nazi Party and the Socialist Party, the course of events could have been quite different according to the historian. If it is impossible to repeat the story, Thomas Weber's work allows us to see from a different angle the journey of a man who found the ideal context to give free rein to his domineering and murderous impulses.
The German Socialist Party rejected Adolf Hitler in 1919
It is always tempting, and easy, to rewrite the story and imagine what could have happened if only one detail was changed. This concept, which is the origin of all uchronies, was in a way treated by the German Thomas Weber, professor of history at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), as reported in the British newspaper The Guardian. Weber, who has been working for more than a decade on the life of Adolf Hitler, has discovered through documents so far unknown that the German Socialist Party (Deutschsozialistische Partei) rejected in 1919 his request for membership and its proposals for collaboration in the framework of the party's official journal.
The Deutschsozialistische Partei, also located on the extreme right of the political spectrum at the time, was then an important formation. Thomas Weber's theory is that the story could have been radically changed if Adolf Hitler had been accepted into this party. According to the historian, he could have contented himself with a less important role and never come to power in Germany. "Until the previous year, he had not shown any quality to lead, and was happy to follow orders, rather than give them," says Weber.
Rejected, Hitler will take revenge at the Nazi Party
Instead, it was in a Nazi party, the National Socialist Party of German Workers, who was born and in search of a leader in 1920, that Adolf Hitler would find the right ground for his ascent, which will lead to his appointment as Chancellor in 1933 and the beginning of the Third Reich. Thomas Weber explains that this succession of events explains Hitler's particularly vindictive attitude toward the German Socialist Party in the years that followed. "There has been a tendency to analyze Hitler's erratic and irrational behavior between his entry into the Nazi Party and the mid-1920s as that of someone who, apart from his oratorical skills, did not really have any political sensitivity, "he writes.
A theory that does not find favor in his eyes: "In my book, I show that it is not at all this way that we must apprehend. Hitler was in fact a competent and cunning politician who never forgave someone who rejected him, "adds the researcher. If Hitler had subsequently agreed to a merger between the Nazi Party and the Socialist Party, the course of events could have been quite different according to the historian. If it is impossible to repeat the story, Thomas Weber's work allows us to see from a different angle the journey of a man who found the ideal context to give free rein to his domineering and murderous impulses.
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