A Revolutionary and an Ideologist - 1919 to 1925 | The Hitler Chronicles (2/13)

Initially installed at the NSDAP as a police informer, Hitler quickly takes over a leadership role. He realizes having a speaker's talent. His flair for art enables him to modernize the party; he designs the Swastika flag. He is impressed by the "March to Rome" by Mussolini and the fascists in Italy.

But his own coup attempt of 1923 fails and puts him in jail for more than a year. There he writes "Mein Kampf". The NSDAP is forbidden and Hitler is banned from speaking publicly. It is an uncertain new beginning.

A series by Hermann Pölking-Eiken
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