Volume 1: Chapter 8, The Beginning of My Political Activity Summary and Analysis

Hitler returns to Munich in November 1918 and goes to the replacement barracks of his regiment. He finds things in the control of soldiers' councils. He is at the camp until March, 1919. To Hitler, it looks like a revolution is in progress. He does not feel he can join any of the existing parties at this time. He meets a few people and discusses forming a new party and they decide on Social Revolutionary Party for a name. He still does not see economics as the basis for the continued survival of the German people. He attends a lecture by Gottfried Feder on international capital markets and stock exchanges. They exist because people make money from them. In studying Feder's ideas, Hitler formulates the basis for his new...