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Ridding Europe of what the Nazis called "Jewish Communism" was their #1 core aim. (The brief pact with the Soviet Union in 1939 was purely tactical). In fact, the original party, the DAP, had been established in Janaury 1919 with this specific aim.

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The immediate forerunner of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) was founded specially as an anti-Communist party on 5 January 1919 at the time of the Munich Soviet. Anti-Communism was is core purpose.

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