Hitler's Impact On Germany How big was the impact Hitler had on Germany? Enormous, undescribable. When Hitler was 30, he joined the German Workerˇ¦s Party, taking up the central position as the head of propaganda. This particular party strongly attacked Communism and was extremely anti-Semitic. All this of course caught the German peopleˇ¦s awareness of fearing a Communist revolution. (e.g. Russiaˇ¦s influence) In 1920, when Hitler is 31, he produced the ˇ§swastikaˇ¨ as a symbol for his party. Back then it was a wonderful symbol, used with pride and privilege. Nowadays, this symbol is used mostly to show hatred, ignorance and pr