From 1935 through the end of 1936, Hitler intensified control of the population, militarization, and persecution.

A massive effort to consolidate Nazi power occurred in 1934 under the guise of being lawful. By August 1934, Germany was a one-party state, and Hitler became both the Führer and Reich Chancellor.

Hitler’s blitzkrieg of political moves held Germany in a stranglehold by the end of 1933. By the end of July, the Nazi Party was the only party. The Weimar Republic was no more.

Hitler and the Nazi Party didn’t need a coup to attain power. He gained it by outsmarting Germany’s Weimar ruling class and the new business class known as the Conservative Elite. Their greed, combined with their ignorance, contributed to Hitler’s rise to power and the Third Reich. 

Hitler changed German education to instill Nazi ideology in youth. He taught them to relish hatred rather than think. The so-called reforms began in the early 1930s and grew after Hitler came to power in 1933.

Adolf Hitler began spying on political groups in Munich as a hired Weimar Army informant in mid-1919. A small nationalist group called the German Workers’ Party (DAP) caught his fancy. So much so that he became member #55, and soon became the party’s most dynamic speaker, shaping its pro-nationalist agenda by demonizing Jews, Marxists, and Democracy.

Adolf Hitler’s life from 1907 to 1920 shaped his future political career and the rise of the Nazi Party.