Adolf Hitler was just such a person. He was a powerful and spellbinding speaker who easily attracted a wide following of German people who were desperate for change. Hitler promised the nation a better life and a glorious Germany. Hitler became the leader of a new political party, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, the Nazis. The Nazis appealed to the unemployed, the young people, and the people of the lower middle class—store keepers, office workers, craftsmen, and farmers.