Journey of Adolf to

Hitler

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Biography

Born:
20/04/1889
Died:
30/04/1945
Birthplace: Branau Am Inn,Austria
Adolf Hitler was leader of Germany
during the Third Reich (1933
1945) and the primary instigator of
both the Second World War in
Europe and the mass execution of
millions of people deemed to be
"enemies" or inferior to the Aryan
ideal

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Childhood & Family History

Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau
am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary (in present day
Austria), close to the border with the German Empire
He was the fourth of six children to Alois Hitler and
Klara Plzl (18601907).
Hitler's older siblingsGustav, Ida, and Ottodied in
infancy.
When Hitler was three, the family moved to Passau,
Germany.
In 1894 the family relocated to Leonding (near Linz)
and in June 1895, Alois retired to a small landholding
at Hafeld, near Lambach.
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Education in early years

Hitler attended Volksschule (a state-owned school)

in nearby Fischlham.
Hitler refused to conform to the strict discipline of
his school.
The eight-year-old Hitler took singing lessons, sang
in the church choir, and even considered becoming a
priest.
Alois sent Hitler to the Realschule in Linz in
September 1900. Hitler rebelled against this
decision and in Mein Kampf revealed that he
intentionally did poorly in school, hoping that once
his father saw "what little progress I was making at
the technical school he would let me devote myself
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to
my dream".

Education
After Alois's sudden death on 3 January 1903,
Hitler's performance at school deteriorated and
his mother allowed him to leave.[
He enrolled at the Realschule in Steyr in
September 1904, where his behaviour and
performance showed some improvement.
In 1905, after passing a repeat of the final exam,
Hitler left the school without any ambitions for
further education or clear plans for a career.

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Early adulthood in Vienna and

Munich
From 1905, Hitler lived a bohemian life in Vienna
, financed by orphan's benefits and support
from his mother.
Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts rejected him in
1907 and again in 1908, citing "unfitness for
painting
He recovered to make a living selling his art
cheaply and resident in a community 'Men's
Home
Hitler received the final part of his father's
estate in May 1913 and moved to Munich
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 During this period Hitler appears to have developed the

world view that would characterise his whole life: a
hatred for Jews and Marxists.
Hitler was well placed to be influenced by the demagogy
of Karl Lueger, Viennas deeply anti-Semitic mayor.
Hitler had previously been influenced by Schonerer, an
Austrian politician against liberals, socialists, catholics
and Jews..
Hitler states in Mein Kampf that he first became an
anti-Semite in Vienna.
His close friend, August Kubizek, claimed that Hitler
was a "confirmed anti-Semite" before he left Linz
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Adolf Hitler and the First World

War:

Hitler moved to Munich in 1913 and avoided

Austrian military service in early 1914 by virtue
of being unfit.
when the First World War broke out in 1914 he
joined the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment.
He proved to be an able and brave soldier as a
dispatch runner, winning the Iron Cross on two
occasions .
He was also wounded twice, and four weeks
before the war ended suffered a gas attack
which temporarily blinded.
He especially hated the Treaty of Versailles.
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Adolf Hitler Enters Politics:

In 1919, working for an army unit, he was assigned to
spy on a political party of roughly 40 idealists called
the German Workers Party. Instead he joined it.
he was chairman by 1921 and renamed it the
Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP).
He gave the party the Swastika as a symbol and
organised a personal army of storm troopers (the
SA or Brownshirts) and a bodyguard of black shirted
men, the SS, to attack opponents.
He also discovered, and used, his powerful ability for
public speaking.

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The Beer Hall Putsch:

In November 1923 Hitler organized Bavarian
nationalists under a figurehead of
General Ludendorff into a coup (or 'putsch')
They declared their new government in a beer hall in
Munich and then 3000 marched through the streets,
but they were met by police, who opened fire, killing
16.
Hitler was arrested and tried in 1924, but was
sentenced to only five years in prison.
Hitler served only nine months in prison, during
which he wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle), a book
outlining his theories on race, Germany and Jews.
Only now, Hitler came to believe he was the one who
should be leader.
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As Politician
After the Beer-Hall Putsch
Hitler resolved to seek
power through subverting
the Weimar government
system, and he carefully
rebuilt the NSDAP, or
Nazi, party.
Over time he expanded the
partys support.
Nazi votes jumped to 107
seats in the Reichstag in
1930.

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As President &
Fhrer:
In 1932 Hitler acquired German
citizenship and ran for
president, coming second to
von Hindenburg
Nazi party acquired 230 seats
in the Reichstag, making them
the largest party in Germany.
he was
appointed Chancellor of German
y
on January 30th 1933
Hitler soon took over the role
of president when Hindenburg
died and merged the role with
that of Chancellor to become
Fhrer (Leader) of Germany.
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Adolf Hitler in Power:

Hitler continued to move with speed in radically
changing Germany, consolidating power, locking up
enemies in camps, bending culture to his will,
rebuilding the army and breaking the constraints
of the Treaty of Versailles.
Jews were particularly targeted.
Hitler also made himself head of the army.

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World War Two and the

Failure of the Third Reich

Hitler engineered territorial expansion, uniting with

Austria in an anschluss, and dismembering
Czechoslovakia.
InSeptember 1939, German forces invaded Poland, and
other nations took a stand, declaring war.
Hitler believed Germany should make itself great
through war, so invasions in 1940 went well.
in 1941 with the invasion of Russia, After initial success,
German forces were pushed back by Russia, and defeats
in Africa and West Europe followed as Germany was
slowly beaten.
Hitler became gradually more paranoid and divorced
from the world, retreating to a bunker.
As armies approached Berlin from two directions, Hitler
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killed himself on April 30th 1945.

Hitler and History

Adolf Hitler:Mentally Ill?

Hitler will forever be

remembered for starting the
Second World War.
He will equally be remembered
for his dreams of racial purity.
He ordered the execution of
around eleven million people.
Although every arm of German
bureaucracy was turned to
pursuing the executions, Hitler
was the chief driving force

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many commentators
have concluded that
he must have been
mentally ill.
and that if he wasnt
when he started his
rule the pressures of
his failed wars must
have driven him mad.

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