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Hitler as soldier [r]: Adolf Hitler's military service in World War I, and his postwar work for the Army that led him to the predecessors of the Nazi Party ^[e]
Nazi Party [r]: The totalitarian ideology espoused by Adolf Hitler and the German Nazi Party; its program was first stated formally in 1920, drafted by Hitler, Gottfried Feder and Anton Drexler ^[e]
Weimar Republic [r]: Post-First World War democracy government in Germany, created in 1918 and ending in 1933 when the new Weimar Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, took control through parliamentary maneuver and became dictator ^[e]
Antisemitism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Pan-German nationalism [r]: Add brief definition or description

Weltanschauung of Hitler [r]: Literally "world view", the set of ideas less specific than an ideology underlying Adolf Hitler's seeking of goals ^[e]

Houston Stewart Chamberlain [r]: (1855-1927) British-born writer who developed many of the foundations for the Nazi race and biological ideology; major influence on Adolf Hitler ^[e]
Anton Drexler [r]: (1884-1942) Founder of the German Workers' Party, predecessor of the German Nazi Party and coauthor of the original platform of National Socialism; lost influence after the rise of Hitler ^[e]
Dietrich Eckhart [r]: (1868-1923) A founder of the Nazi Party and early mentor of Adolf Hitler; member of Thule Society and participant in Beer Hall Putsch ^[e]
Rudolf Hess [r]: Early Nazi Party member to whom Adolf Hitler dictated Mein Kampf; became Deputy Fuhrer but lost bureaucratic power; made an unauthorized flight to Great Britain in 1941 to seek a peace agreement but was interned; sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) and died in Spandau Prison ^[e]
Alfred Hugenberg [r]: (1865–1951) German publisher, financier and right-wing politician who co-founded the DNVP, help fund the early Nazis, went into coalition with them, but lost his power and publishing empire when they took control ^[e]
Erich Ludendorff [r]: (1865-1937) First Quartermaster-General/Chief of Army Staff for Germany in WWI; became right-wing politician, participated in Beer Hall Putsch, serving as a Nazi Reichstag deputy 1924-1928 but eventually broke with the Nazis ^[e]

Alfred Rosenberg [r]: Early Nazi Party member and philopsopher, later Minister for the occupied territories on the Eastern Front; tried and executed by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) ^[e]
Stahlhelm [r]: Literally "steel helmet"; formed 1918 as Association of [German] Frontline Soldiers; joined DNVP/NSDAP coalition, splitting from the DVP, part of initial Nazi coalition; largely absorbed by Sturmabteilung (SA) ^[e]
Gregor Strasser [r]: (1892-1934), elder brother of Otto Strasser; leftist National Socialist, head of 1925 Political Organization) then rival of Adolf Hitler; WW1 officer, Gauleiter of Niederbayern-Oberpfalz (1925-1929), Reichsorganisationsleiter (1929-1932); killed during Night of the Long Knives ^[e]
Otto Strasser [r]: (1897-1974), younger brother of Gregor Strasser; WW1 officer, Freikorps leader, Ex-SPD, Working Association of the North and West, formed the socialist anti-Nazi Black Front when expelled from the NDSAP in 1930 ^[e]

Joseph Goebbels [r]: German propaganda minister under Adolf Hitler; Gauleiter of Berlin (1929 - 1945) ^[e] originally allied with the Strassers, although not anti-Nazi\
Paul von Hindenburg [r]: (1847-1934) German Field Marshal in WWI, Chief of Staff and then Chief of the Army with Erich Ludendorff as principal deputy; told Wilhelm II he had to abdicate; President of Germany 1925-1934, replaced by Adolf Hitler only after death due to his popularity ^[e]
Otto Meissner [r]: (1880-1953) Head of the Office of the President in the Weimar Republic, then a Minister without Portfolio when Adolf Hitler combined the President and Chancellor into the Fuehrer ^[e]
Franz von Papen [r]: (1879 - 1969) Ex-Reichswehr, Catholic Center Party, Herrenklub, Chancellor (1932-33), Vice Chancellor; under house arrest during Night of the Long Knives; Ambassador to Austria before Anschluss; acquitted of war crimes in Nuremberg Trials ^[e]
Kurt von Schleicher [r]: (1881-1934) WW1 Staff Officer, Reichswehr general, Chancellor of Germany (1932-33); killed, with his wife, during Night of the Long Knives Purge ^[e]
Working Association of the North and West [r]: A left-wing socialist faction of the Nazi Party, formed in 1925 ^[e]

Beer Hall Putsch [r]: The first "National Revolution" attempt of the Nazi Party on 8 November 1923; it failed, after street violence, and resulted in brief imprisonment for Adolf Hitler and others ^[e]
- Emily Overend Lorimer [r]: (1881-1949) British linguist and political analyst involved with the Arab Revolt in the First World War, British policy for Arab independence, and an early writer on the threat of Adolf Hitler; spouse of David Lorimer ^[e]

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