red. Although the German Workers Party started out as a smallright-wing organisation, with Hitlers joining, it gained support.The German Workers' Party now featured Hitler as the mainattraction at its meetings. In his speeches Hitler railed against the Treaty ofVersailles and delivered anti-Semitic tirades, blaming the Jews forGermany's problems. At this point in time the Nazi Partys ideals seemedto attract members who were part of the labour sector in society orworkers. These were the men and women who worked in industrialinstitution such as factories. These people were often threatened by unstable employment and therefore pay, but Hitler offered stableemployment and pay. The Nazi Partys policies based on anti-Semitism,Lebensraum (Livingspace), economic and social reformsincludingnationalization of the trusts also attracted the workers. Times werechanging, however, and Hitler was ready to make the next step inconsolidation his power. Hitlers extraordinary public speaking skills wereutilised to gather supporters for the Nazi Party.The mid 1920s were a tense and strained period in which muchhappened. The SA (Sturm-Abteilung or Stormtroopers) had been wellestablished and its numbers were increasing steadily. The swastika hadbeen introduced and was now widely used to represent the Nazi Party. TheNazi Party, now notorious as being the direct opposite of the CommunistParty, gained the support of many fearful middle-class Germans whoknew of the ever possible threat of a Communist revolution. Ashyperinflation set in Germany, pockets of people were empty but peoplestood by their government, admiring its defiance of the French. But inSeptember of 1923, the German government made a fateful decision toresume making payments. Bitter resentment and unrest swelled among thepeople, inciting extremist political groups to action and quickly bringingGermany to the brink of chaos. The Nazis and other similar groups nowfelt the time was right to strike. Th...
