... up the meetings of their political opponents. On 14 September 1921, in Munich, SA men savagely beat up the principal speaker, nearly killing him. Hitler was crushing political opposition through force, and this brought Hitler a three-month jail sentence but he was released after only one month. By 1922 the NSDAP were one of the most influential and violent Parties based ... disarray. Hitler set himself two objectives. The first was to establish his own absolute control over the Party by driving out those who were not prepared to accept his leadership without question. The second was to ...

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