Gottfried Feder
Gottfried Feder was the principal economic theorist for the initial phase of the National Socialist movement. Feder’s 1919 book “Manifesto for Breaking the Thralldom of Interest” and his speech before a German Workers’ Party meeting that same year provided the immediate inspiration for Adolf Hitler’s entry into politics.
Feder’s socialist and anti-capitalist ideas subsequently found expression in Hitler’s 25-point program for the NSDAP, as well as in Feder’s own book, “German State on the National Socialist Foundation”, considered by Hitler to be “the catechism of the movement.” This collection includes all three of Feder’s major works.