Adolf Hitler was a soldier in the German Army during WWI. He was injured by poison gas and almost went blind. Hitler wanted to continue being in the military and was told to spy on the German Workers Party (aka Nazis). However, instead of spying on them he listened and liked what they believed in. The group was anti-semitic, anti-capitalist, anti-marxist, and were very nationalistic. They also believed in defying the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler created the Brownshirts to protect the Nazis at rallys and when they organized a coup (Beer Hall Putsch) which failed and took him straight to jail. In jail, Hitler wrote a book called Mein Kampf (meaning My Struggle) where he stated all of his beliefs. He believed that the Aryan race was superior and