The German Workers' Union was conceived by Anton Drexler on
             the seventh of March, 1918. Drexler's union consisted of about forty
             members, most of whom were railwaymen, that were banded together by
             shared sentiments of fierce nationalism, anti-Semitism, and support
             for the war effort. Previous to the end of World War I, this small
             union carried the rather verbose title of the "Free Labor Committee
             for a Good Peace." At this time the organization adhered to a rather
             straightforward program-"Strikers, Bolsheviks, Jews, malingerers, and
             war profiteers were the enemy, and it was the duty of the workers to
             unite behind the war effort." (Payne, 135) However, after the
             disastrous conclusion to the war, Drexler's union, having changed
             its name to the "German Worker's Party," lacked any coherent program
             and was on the brink of collapse when Hitler inadvertently stepped
             When this happened the party ceased to be Drexler's partly; it
             became Hitler's. The German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei)
             became the foundation of the Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche
             Arbeiterpartei, commonly abbreviated as the NAZI party. Hitler's
             ability to transform this forty-member union into the dominant
             political force that it became gives us clear indication that he was
             an inherent leader and a master of propaganda. In fact, I believe,
             that without his introduction to the DAP, the Nazi party would
             Hitler was assigned to attend his first DAP meeting on the
             twelfth of September, 1919 in order to investigate the party and its
             activities for the military. In the course of the meeting, Hitler
             became actively involved in one of the arguments. He refuted one
             person with such force that the man left "like a wet noodle" before
             Hitler was even finished speaking. However, Hitler's only purpose for
             that meeting was to attend and then write a report. For this reason he
             took one of D...