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ADOLF HITLER

Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)
Founder and leader of Nazi Party, Head of State and Commander of the Armed Forces, Adolf
Hitler was born in Austria on April 20, 1889. Hitler was born to Austrian customs
officials, Alois Schickelgruber Hitler, and his third wife, Klara Poelzl, both from
Austria. Hitler was a resentful and discontent child who was moody, lazy, and having a
short temper. As a young man Hitler was very hostile towards his father and strongly
attached to his mother, whose death from cancer in December of 1908 really had a big
impact on his life.
After spending about four years in the Realschule in Linz, he dropped out at sixteen
years of age with intentions on becoming a painter. In October of 1907 Hitler left home
and headed to Vienna, where he was to lead the bohemian, vagabond existence until 1913.
The Viennese Academy of Fine Arts rejected him and he spent five years of misery in
Vienna as he later recalled. Hitler's views didn't change much within the years he still
had a very strong hatred towards Jews and Marxists.
In Vienna he received his first education in politics by studying the techniques of the
popular Christian Mayor, and Karl Lueger, where he picked up stereotyped, obsessive
anti-Semitism with it's brutal, violent sexual connotations and concern with the purity
of blood. From Georg von Schoenerer, Lanz von Liebenfels, and the Austrian Pan German
leader, Hitler learned to discern in the Eternal Jew, the symbol and cause of all chaos
and corruption in politics, and the economy.
In May 1913 Hitler left Vienna for Munich. When war broke out in August 1914, Hitler
joined the Sixteenth Bavarian Infantry Regiment, serving as a dispatch runner. Hitler
proved to be a courageous soldier, and received an Iron Cross for bravery, however he
never got past Lance Corporal in ranking. He was injured a couple times, and then badly
gassed four weeks before the end of the war. He spent three months recuperating in the
hospital, temporarily blind. 
In July of 1921 Hitler then discovered a powerful talent and developed a party, which he
gave the swastika as a symbol. His hoarse, awful voice, for all his humorless speeches
dominated audiences. By November 1921 Hitler had to hire armed squads to keep his meeting
organized. Out of these squads grew the storm troopers run by Captain Ernst Rohm and
Hitler's bodyguard, the Schutzstaffel.
By February 24, 1920 Hitler announced the exclusion of the Jews from the folk community,
saying that the Aryan race was the supreme race. Hitler's first written words on
political questions emphasized that what he called the anti-Semitism of reason leads to
eliminating Jews privileges. It's ultimate goal to totally remove Jews.
By November 1923 Hitler was convinced that Weimar Republic was almost ready to collapse
and, himself along with General Ludendorff and other groups, try to overthrow the
Bavarian government in Munich. He ran into a bar, shot his gun, and yelled to everyone
that he was leading a new government. Hitler and Lundendorff then marched through Munich
ahead of 3,000 men; police stopped them after leaving sixteen dead. Hitler was arrested
and tried on February 26, 1924. He tried to turn the tables of coarse and was only
sentenced to five years imprisonment in Landsberg fortress. Hitler was released after
only nine months, in that time he wrote Mein Kampf. Known as the 'bible' of the Nazi
Party, this terrible, crude book has sold over five million copies by 1939 and was put
into eleven languages.
In January 1925 the ban on the Nazi Party was removed and Hitler regained permission to
speak in front of the public. Hitler reestablished himself in 1926 as the ultimate
arbiter. The Nazi Party won only twelve seats in the 1928 elections, the onset of the
great depression with devastating effects on the middle classes helped Hitler to win over
the German society. In the 1930 elections the Nazi vote jumped dramatically from 810,000
to 6,409,000. (18.3% of total voters) 
In February of 1932 Hitler officially acquired German citizenship and decided to run for
president. He lost by almost six million votes. Then on January 30, of 1933 he ran and
was nominated as Reich Chancellor. Once he started he abolished free trade unions, and
eliminated social democrats, communists and Jews from any role in political life, and
sent them to concentration camps.
When Ernst Rohm dies in June of 1934, Hitler became dictator of the third Reich. Then
when Hidenburg was killed, Hitler had all the power of state in his hands. Avoiding any
authority, which could challenge his own undisputed positions supreme arbiter.
During the next four years Hitler had many successes. In 1935 he abandoned the Versailles
Treaty and began to build his own army having five times as many people as he was
supposed to. He had persuaded Great Britain to give an increase in the naval building
program and in March of 1936 used land not issued to him. He started building up supplies
to help forces in Spain, which lead to the Spanish fascist victory in 1939.
Hitler got the British and French tricked into the Munich agreement in 1938 and the
dismantling of state in March 1939. The concentration camps, the laws against Jews, and
the persecution of those who attended church cause many blood victories. Hitler's next
target was Poland, so to avoid a war he made a pact with Soviet Russia. On September 1,
1939 German armies invaded Poland his many enemies to secure Germany's living space.
The first part of World War 2 was won by Germans: using sudden attacks and good armor
Poland was overrun in nineteen days, Denmark and Norway in two months, Holland, Belgium,
Luxemburg and France in six weeks. And after France fell in June 1940 only Great Britain
stood firm. The battle of Britain was Hitler's first set back, causing the attack on the
British to be postponed. Hitler then turned to the Balkans and North Africa where his
Italia allies had suffered defeats. Hitler then went on to overrun Greece, Yugoslavia,
the island of Crete and drove the British away.
An important decision in Hitler's career was the invasion of Soviet Russia in June of
1941. He rationalized this seeing that it would end the war. The war was to be an anti
Jew crusade, and a war of annihilation. By January of 1939 Hitler declared that if the
financial Jewry outside Europe grew once more he would wipe the Jews out of Europe. By
1941 he had failed to do so and the numbers began to rise.
At first German armies carried all before them, they had overrun so much territory they
were in striking distance of Moscow. Within a few months of the invasion armies had
reached from the Atlantic to the Caucasus, and from the Baltic to the Black sea. However
the Soviet Union did not collapse. In October of 1941 when Hitler said the Soviet Union
would never rise back up. In reality Hitler soon found out he had over looked a few
things.
In December of 1941 Hitler dismissed six important members of his army. Then giving him
all the military power. As Hitler then being his stubborn self failed to comply with the
Middle East, the Italians, and the Russians, so they pushed him to his defense. By the
winter of 1941 it was clear Hitler had no chance, however he kept on hoping he could make
up for the resources and make a better strategy.
Hitler Knowing his staff was weak, if not disastrous. Hitler became more prone to out
bursts, and his health began to deteriorate because of the drugs his doctor had
prescribed him. By Hitler's isolation, and rare public appearance, the German defeat
became clear in 1942.
Allies began bombing Germany, starting to greatly effect Germany. By July of 1944 the
Generals all frustrated with Hitler planned there own anti nazi army, hoping to pave a
negotiation with the allies. The plot failed and Hitler order all of them to death, they
were all executed and Hitler made a film of it.
Disaster get creeping closer, Hitler hoped his secret weapons would not be found. He had
a V-1 and a V-2 rocket, which he had planned to use for an attack. By 1945 Hitler ordered
the destruction of the rest of Germany. He had decided if he didn't get to survive no one
could. He left over six million Jews in concentration camps, then turned on his own
people as well.
On April 29,of 1945 Hitler married his wife Eva Braun. The following day Hitler committed
suicide, shooting himself through his mouth with a pistol. His body was carried to a the
garden of Reich Chancellery, covered with petrol and burned along with his wife. This
last act of destruction symbolized the career of this awful man whose main goal was to
ruin civilization, with human sacrifices for the sake of power.