Adolf Hitler's opposition to the terms of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles had gained him a political following in Weimar Republic Germany. The platform of the Nazi Party, adopted the following year in 1920, had only one mention of Jews: "Only those who have German blood, regardless of creed, can be our countrymen. Hence no Jew can be a countrymen." The platform also stated that the German state's responsibility was to its citizens and "if it is not possible to maintain the entire population of the State, then foreign nationals (non-Citizens) are to be expelled from the Reich." This platform was mostly the same when Hitler became
