![]() ![]() ![]() "Ja dem Führer" ("Yes to the Leader"), a Nazi slogan banner outside of a school in 1934 He developed over time a self-image with nationalistic and religious overtones which made him appealing to all Germans, and which prompted him to proclaim, "I have awakened the masses". After the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 and Hitler's imprisonment, he set out to construct an image of himself that would appeal to all sections of the German people. As early as a few days after Benito Mussolini's " March on Rome" on 28 October 1922, a Nazi Party speaker announced to a beer-hall crowd that "Germany's Mussolini is called Adolf Hitler", thus giving a boost to Hitler's cult of personality, which was only just getting started. Following the end of World War I and during the interwar period, the German people suffered greatly under the Weimar Republic and, according to the Nazis, only Hitler as a messiah could save them and restore Germany's greatness, which in turn gave rise to the myth of the " Führer-cult". Beginning in the early years of the Nazi Party, Nazi propaganda depicted the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as an iconic figure who was the only person capable of saving Germany. ![]()
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