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" What the masses needed [...] were not only ideas - a few simple ideas, that is, that he could ceaselessly hammer through their skulls - but symbols that would win their faith, pageantry and color that would arouse them, and acts of violence and terror, which if successful, would attract adherents [...] and give them a sense of power over the week."

" It was entitled 'My Political Awakening.' To Hitler's surprise, it reflected a good many ideas which he himself had acquired over the years. Drexler's principal aim was to build a political party which would be based on the masses of the working class but which, unlike the social democrats, would be strongly nationalist."

This seems familiar...