Hitler's DAP membership card

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Kreditera:

Kershaw, Hitler: Hubris 1889-1936, Penguin Books, p. 127

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Forged copy of Adolf Hitler's membership card in the German Worker Party (DAP), which would later become the NSDAP. His membership number was actually 555. In a letter from Anton Drexler that was drafted in 1940 but never sent, he said:

No one knows better than you yourself, my Führer, that you were never the seventh member of the party, but at best the seventh member of the committee, which I asked you to join as recruitment director. And a few years ago I had to complain to a party office that your first proper membership card of the DAP, bearing the signatures of Schüssler and myself, was falsified, with the number 555 being erased and number 7 entered.

[Note: membership was counted upwards from 500 (the first 500 members did not in fact exist), so Hitler's party number was 555, when in fact he was the 55th member.]

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