FOLLOWING the end of the First World War in November, 1918, a defeated Germany was faced with serious political, social, industrial, economic and currency problems, for which the main political parties could offer no solution.
This led to the proliferation of small parties of every political persuasion, each one offering their own solution to Germany's ills.
One of these was the extreme Nationalist German Workers Party, founded in April, 1919, by Anton Dextler, a Munich metal worker.
In September, 1919, a young army corporal, named Adolf Hitler, joined the party, which soon changed its name to the National Socialist Party.
By 1933, it was governing Germany. Now, with growing disillusionment with the main political parties right across Europe, could a small party emerge, left, right or centre, and emulate the National Socialist Party in 1933 and gain power?
JOHN PORTER, Thwaites Road, Oswaldtwistle.
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