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Adolf Hitler and the DAP- The German Workers' Union was conceived by Anton Drexler on the seventh of March, 1918. Drexler's union consisted of about forty members, most of whom were railwaymen, that were banded together by shared sentiments of fierce nationalism, anti-Semitism, and support for the war effort. Previous to the end of World War I, this small union carried the rather verbose title of the "Free Labor Committee for a Good Peace." At this time the organization adhered to a rather straightforward program-"Strikers, Bolsheviks, Jews, malingerers, and war profiteers were the enemy, and it was the duty of the workers to unite behind the war effort." (Payne, 135) However, after the disastrous conclusion to the war, Drexler's union, having changed its name to the "German Worker's Party," lacked any coherent program and was on the brink of collapse when Hitler inadvertently stepped into the picture. When this happened the party ceased to be Drexler's partly; it became Hitler's. The German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) became the foundation of the Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly abbreviated as the NAZI party. Hitler's ability to transform this forty-member union into the dominant political forc