Professor suggests history could have taken different path if Hitler had not been rejected by German Socialist partyAdolf Hitler only joined the Nazis after being rejected by another political party, a leading historian has learned. Although also far-right, the German Socialist party was at the time bigger and more successful than the Nazi party. The German Socialist party was dissolved the following year. “It finally explains his obsessive behaviour, for the next few years, towards the German Socialist party. All the other senior members of the early Nazi party favoured merging with the German Socialist party as a junior party in the early 1920s.

Source: The Guardian October 30, 2017 06:00 UTC