Research Paper: Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was a man with a dream. He wanted to create a perfect nation unlike anything the

world has ever seen. This was a man who would never stop pursuing his dream until he was the

supreme overlord of an all powerful and pure empire. To aid him in his heroic mission, he

possessed outstanding brilliance and excellent organization skills. He created blueprints of forms

of architecture that were never before seen. If you tried to stop this man, you would be just about

as screwed as a piece of paper trying to stand up against a flamethrower.

Adolf Hitler was born in Austria-Hungary on April 20, 1889. His father was Alois Hitler and

his mother was Klara Polzl. His siblings were Paula, Alois, and Angela. Six years after Adolf’s

birth his family moved to Linz, Austria were Adolf stared elementary school and received good

marks. He did not do well in high school, however. Adolf’s inconsiderate father wanted him to

become a civil servant, contrary to Adolf’s desire to become an artist. He wrote: “I yawned and

grew sick to my stomach at the thought of sitting in and office, deprived of my liberty; ceasing to

be the master of my own time and being compelled to force the content of a whole life into blanks

that had to be filled out” (Haugen, 20). His father died in 1903. 2 ½ years later Adolf dropped out

of high school at 16. In 1907 he went to Vienna.

When Adolf Hitler went to Vienna in 1907, he tried to get into the art school but failed

twice. On December 21 of 1907, Adolf’s mother died and he never told her that he did not get into the

art school. He wrote: “The death of my mother put a sudden end to all my high-flown plans… It was a

dreadful blow, particularly for me. I had honored my father, but my mother I had loved” (Haugen, 25).

For a while he lived in Vienna with his best friend, August Kubizek and as he spent time there his
hatred toward non-Aryans grew. In 1913 he moved to Munich, Germany, where the Austrian army

called him to serve but found him unfit to do so. Regardless of that, Adolf became a faithful

messenger who was in the Western Front for the majority of World War I. He had several brushes with

death that convinced him that he was part of a bigger purpose in life. When he came back from the war

following the surrender in November 1918 along with the rest of the German military, Germany was

in a severe financial situation. Germany had to sign the Treaty of Versailles which held Germany

responsible for the war. Lots of their land was taken and the payments of reparations made peace

difficult

Adolf returned to Munich Germany following the war and served for the bankrupted country until

March 1920. In the fall of 1919, he began attending meetings of a group called the German Workers’

Party. He soon became leader and the name was changed to the Nazi party as he worked himself up to

the rank of leader. As a party, they called the union one nation of Germans and demanded the

deprivation of German citizenship to those who were of Jewish origin along with the cancellation of

the Treaty of Versailles. Adolf talked of how the Nazi could provide economic stabilization and the

revivification of Germany’s greatness.

By 1923 France and Belgium had sent troops to occupy Germany’s main industrial angry, which

made most of the people in the country angry. Communist and national uprisings occurred across the

country. In this time of distress, Adolf saw an opportunity to control to conquer both the Bavarian and

national governments and attempted to seize the Bavarian government on November 9th. However, the

only things that were accomplished through this recklessly stupid course of action was earning five

years in prison and the death of sixteen marchers. In prison, Adolf started writing his book Mein

Kampf (My Struggle), a book in which his opinions were stated.

 In Mein Kampf, Adolf wrote of what he believed the future of Germany should be and what

procedures should be taken. Plans of how lots of territory would be reclaimed and details of how a

dictatorship was the only way to save Germany were depicted in the book. He also said that Germans

were the highest form of humanity and how they must remain “pure” by steering clear of marriage to

Jews and Slavs, who were blamed for the evil and corruption of the world in Mein Kampf. In it, he

said: “Every manifestation of human culture, every product of art, science and technical skill, which

we use before our eyes today, is almost exclusively the product of Aryan creative power”

(http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERhitler.htm, par. 65). Adolf was released in 1924, during

which time the Nazi party was outlawed, but he soon changed that and rebuilt the Nazi party until the

Nazis were an important minority party by 1929. In the major elections held in 1932, the Nazis

received 38 percent of the votes in the elections for the Reichstag (parliament). Adolf was offered

Cabinet posts, but he repudiated any arrangements that did not make him chancellor of Germany. On

January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.

As Chancellor of Germany, Adolf had only two Nazis in the Cabinet: Goring and Frick. The vice

chancellor, Franz von Papen, thought that he would be able to keep a leash on Adolf, but to say that

you could stop a man like Adolf Hitler from accomplishing what he wants to accomplish is pretty

foolish. Over time he moved closer towards complete dictatorship. His rule provided no freedom,

which was named the Third Reich. On February 4, the Nazis were granted the authority to prohibit

assemblies, outlaw media publications, and to freely arrest anyone (by 1934 so many people were

arrested that. Following a fire set to the Reichstag building by an arsonist, a decree signed by

Hindenburg gave Adolf and the government full dictatorial power. By mid-July of 1933, the

government had deprived everybody of pretty much all the rights Americans have today. When

Hindenburg died in August 1934, Adolf was the supreme dictator of Germany.
 As dictator of Germany, Adolf had started rearming the nation secretly in 1933, first in secret, then

in open violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Steps towards establishing Germany as the world’s

leading power and annihilating the Jews became even bolder since no one took action against it. By

March 1939, Germany had conquered Rhineland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. After this and an

attempted conquering of Poland, France and Britain declared war on Germany, becoming the center of

World War II. During Adolf’s rule, over two thirds of the Jews of Europe were massacred, along with

numerous Poles, Slavs, Roma (occasionally referred to as gypsies), Jehovah’s Witnesses, priests,

disabled people, homosexuals, and other assumed political threats. By 1945, Britain, France, and the

United States began marching into the heart of Germany against rapidly dwindling opposition. In April

of 1945, Adolf took shelter in an underground bunker in Berlin with Eva Braun, a young woman who

always admired him since the thirties. On April 29th they were married and they lived happily that day.

The following day, to show undying love, Eva Braun showed an undeniable amount of love and

devotion when she followed suit when Adolf could not bear life anymore and killed himself with a

poison tablet, a symbol of love. Following Adolf’s death, Germany surrendered.

In his lifetime, Hitler did many unthinkable things. Some so unthinkable that your attention just

might be diverted from Hitler’s brilliance. His public speaking and organization skills were great, and

he let nothing stop him from accomplishing his dream. One would need to possess extreme brightness

to arrange all those concentration camps and that incredible form of government. In the way of his

brilliance, we should strive to be like Hitler. In the way of his slightly astringent beliefs, we should not

become a man like him at all.

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