D A P1920 membership card....get a load of this

[juoneen]

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Summary
Español: Carné de Hitler como miembro del DAP

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

Source: originally uploaded to en.wikipedia by User:Eloquence

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


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current 10:51, 3 May 2009 Thumbnail for version as of 10:51, 3 May 2009 431 × 283 (61 KB) Kahlil88 (talk | contribs) Losslessly recompressed with OptiPNG 0.6.2
19:28, 3 May 2005 Thumbnail for version as of 19:28, 3 May 2005 431 × 283 (137 KB) Schaengel89 (talk | contribs) *Description: Adolf Hitler's membership card in the German Worker Party (DAP), which would later become the NSDAP *Source: originally uploaded to en by en:User:Eloquence {{msg:PD}}

[Tony T-S]

I was looking for the number 7, but its actually written over the top of the lines covering 555. Amazing history all round

[Br. James]

A nice reminder to all of us, Juoneen, that our hobby has ALWAYS been fraught with fakes and forgeries on all levels since it's very beginning!! As Anton Drexler wrote, Hitler was DAP Member #555, though he also became the seventh member of the Party's Executive Committee prior to the revolt of July 1921 which pushed Drexler aside as Party Chairman and replaced him with Hitler in that role. And as I understand it, Hitler's original DAP Membership Card wound up on display at the NSDAP Museum at the Sternecker Beer Hall in Munich.

Br. James