New Sources Reveal Why Germans Joined Hitler’s Nazi Party Falter’s findings in his new book Wie ich den Weg zum Führer fand (“How I found my way to the Führer”) are sure to surprise some readers. There are countless theories as to why so many Germans joined Hitler’s party, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), but it is a subject that has seen relatively little empirical research. Jürgen W. Falter, widely regarded as the world’s leading researcher into NSDAP voters and members (he has written two reference works on the subject with a combined total of over 1,000 pages),...