The Begin of Hitler's Reign

Although Hitler was not involved in the Revolution of 1917 Germany was.  "Negotiations with the German side were conducted by a delegation of Bolsheviks. Historian Oleg Platonov insists that part of them (to be exact, Leon Trotsky, Adolph Yoffe and Lev Karahan) were directly involved with German intelligence."  They eventually had a treaty with Germany and without this treaty the Bolsheviks could not have survived financially. 

In 1923, Hitler organized a putsch (a take-over of a government) on the city of Munich which failed soon after Hitler and his followers were arrested and charged with treason. Hitler turned his trial into a propaganda triumph and received a great deal of publicity when he pleaded guilty, not of treason, but of being a patriot. He was sentenced to five years in prison, but he never served his full time because no one in authority truly believed him to be any kind of a threat.

Hitler learned many lessons from the failed Munich putsch; prison gave him time to think and set goals. While imprisoned, he wrote a book entitled Mein Kampf, meaning, my struggle. In his book he explains his ideas on race, and describes his ideas for his Two Thousand Year Government moving into the east and taking over Russia. It completely explained all of his plans, which he would eventually follow .