Adolf Hitler's Life Story...!

Adolf Hitler's Childhood

       Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in a small Austrian village called Braunau-am-Inn. Adlof was born a sickly child, his mother, Klara, watched over him night and day. Klara Hitler protected young Adolf from her short-tempered husband, Alois. At the age of 6, Hitler started school and showed excellent achievement in his classes. His father ran the household like a military camp. When his father was in the same room as him, Adolf was not allowed to speak without permission. The first signs of Adolf's aggression showed up at the age of 7. Adolf would challenge his tyrannical father and was beaten severely for it. In 1900, at the age of 11, Hitler entered a secondary school that turned out to be disastrous. After entering the school, Adolf's grades dropped in every subject except drawing. Hitler explains this change in academic performance in his book Mein Kampf ( My Struggle ). Hitler states that he purposely failed his classes to rebel against his father and sabotage all ambition towards him. During his high school career, Hitler became seriously ill with a lung infection and was forced to drop out of school.  After dropping out of high school in 1905 at age 16, Adolf Hitler spent the next few years in brooding idleness. His indulgent mother patiently urged him to learn a trade or get a job. But to young Hitler, the idea of daily work with its necessary submission to authority was revolting. With his father now dead, there was no one who could tell young Hitler what to do, so he did exactly as he pleased. He spent his time wandering around the city of Linz, Austria, visiting museums, attending the opera, and sitting by the Danube River dreaming of becoming a great artist. He tried a lot to be an artist and he took many exams, but finally he failed. Hitler resolved to take the painting school entrance exam again next year. Now, feeling quite depressed, Hitler left Vienna and returned home where his beloved mother was now dying from cancer, making matters even worse. 

Little more explanations about how Hitler grown up.

      
 How Did Hitler Became Powerful

       Hitler was a powerful leader, Germany had a bad condition. People of Germany needed someone to bring the Country back to world power. Hitler didn't tell many lies in the beginning. Hitler was legally elected to his office in the 1930s. He was a GREAT SPEAKER and that was the reason that people followed him. He told the German people that they had been crushed economically, socially, and politically by the victors' peace treaty that ended WWI. He told the Germans that if they followed him they would have a better tomorrow. He told them whatever they wanted to hear. Hitler surrounded himself with people that believed as he did that one merely had to tell people what they wanted to hear. He told the people that he would build a system that would last for a thousand years. Hitler told the German people that the jew was their enemy. Hitler promised to see that the Jew lost his place in the new Germann society. Many of Germany's top military men denied they knew of Hitler's plot to get rid of the Jew. They had to have known, after all, if the German people had Jews as neighbors and each day they woke up to see their neighbors gone, what were they suppose to think about families that had lived in the same town for 6 or 7 generations simply don't pack a bag and move overnight.

World War 1 ( WWI) 


    The first world war began in August 1914. It was directly triggered by the assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand and his wife, on 28th June 1914 by Bosnian revolutionary, Gavrilo Princip.
This event was, however, simply the trigger that set off declarations of war. The actual causes of the war are more complicated and are still debated by historians today.
****Alliances****
An alliance is an agreement made between two or more countries to give each other help if it is needed. When an alliance is signed, those countries become known as Allies.
A number of alliances had been signed by countries between the years 1879 and 1914. These were important because they meant that some countries had no option but to declare war if one of their allies. declared war first.
 
****Imperialism****
Imperialism is when a country takes over new lands or countries and makes them subject to their rule. By 1900 the British Empire extended over five continents and France had control of large areas of Africa. With the rise of industrialism countries needed new markets. The amount of lands 'owned' by Britain and France increased the rivalry with Germany who had entered the scramble to acquire colonies late and only had small areas of Africa.
****Militarism****
Militarism means that the army and military forces are given a high profile by the government. The growing European divide had led to an arms race between the main countries. The armies of both France and Germany had more than doubled between 1870 and 1914 and there was fierce competition between Britain and Germany for mastery of the seas. The British had introduced the 'Dreadnought', an effective battleship, in 1906. The Germans soon followed suit introducing their own battleships. The German, Von Schlieffen also drew up a plan of action that involved attacking France through Belgium if Russia made an attack on Germany.
****Nationalism****
Nationalism means being a strong supporter of the rights and interests of one's country. The Congress of Vienna, held after Napoleon's exile to Elba, aimed to sort out problems in Europe. Delegates from Britain, Austria, Prussia and Russia (the winning allies) decided upon a new Europe that left both Germany and Italy as divided states. Strong nationalist elements led to the re-unification of Italy in 1861 and Germany in 1871. The settlement at the end of the Franco-Prussian war left France angry at the loss of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany and keen to regain their lost territory. Large areas of both Austria-Hungary and Serbia were home to differing nationalist groups, all of whom wanted freedom from the states in which they lived.

Hitler Went To Jail 

    He tried to take over the government with the Munich Putsch. Afterwards he let the leaders he threatend go free. They organised an opposition to Hitler's SA march the next day. Hitler was defeated in a street battle and was tried with treason. He was sent to Landsberg prison for 5 years of which he only served 9 months. He had an easy time in prison with access to books and a comfortable life. During this time he wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle) which expressed all of his political views.

What Happened to Hitler in WWI 
 

• went to jail, for trying to overtake the government.
• wrote a book of all his ideas realising to get anywhere he'd need to do things legally
• got out of jail
• created his armey (the SS and the SA)
• kept winning elections
• burned down the reichstag(maybe)
• got the power to do what he wanted
• killed a load of people
• killed the man in charge of the SS because he was scared they might turn on him

 

The SS & SA 

 

  The SS (Schutzstaffel, German for "Protective Squadron")was the primary bodyguard of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party's "Shield Squadron" much like the Praetorian Guard of the Roman Empire. In 1936 under the command of Heinrich Himmler, it expanded and was responsible for the operations of the Concentration Camps and eliminating "enemies of the state" (Communists, Jews etc.)

  The SA (Sturmabteilung, German for "Stormtroopers") also referred to as "Brownshirts", were Hitler's paramilitaries and were of key importance in Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s. With Ernst Röhm in command they often made attacks and raids on other political parties, particularly the communists and during elections they would surround the building to intimidate the voters to vote for the Nazis. They murdered political opponents and terrorized voters.
In June 1934 Hitler had Röhm and the SA purged and its role reduced. It was largely superseded by the SS.

 

 

 

 

 The Nazis

 

   Adolf Hitler led a party named the Nazis. They were all members of the National Socialist Party in Germany. This party was established in Munich in 1919 and in 1921 it was taken over by Adolf Hitler. It was from the outset dominated by hatred and 'anti' attitudes: it was antisemtic, anti-Marxist and anti-democratic. ( Nazis were supporting Hitler every time and they were doing anything for their country and their leader) .

 

 

Hitler's Youth

   The Hitler Yought is the name of a youth organisations set up by the former fuhrer. It replaced the Boy Scouts and the Catholic Youth, which was out-lawed. The Hitler Youth trained young men for sports and some military before the war began. This organization began to separate the children from their parents so they could be brain-washed into the Nazi beliefs.
During the war, the Hitler Youth were trained to fight. As manpower shortages grew, the Hitler Youth were organized into combat units. There was an incident where the Americans were fighting a unit of Hitler Youth who would not surrender. The Americans had to completely annihilate the unit because they blindly followed their Nazi commander.

 

 The Third Reich 

   The Third Reich was Nazi Germany (1933-45). The First Reich (962-1806) was the Holy Roman Empire, which included modern day Germany, Austria, the Czech lands, Northern Italy, and various other territories. Already in the Middle Ages it consisted of several almost independent states, often at war with one another. After the Reformation the authority of the Emperor was further weakened. It was often said that it was "neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire." The Second Reich was Imperial Germany (1871-1918), as unified by Bismarck in 1871.
Note. During the Weimar period (1919-33) the official name of Germany was still "Deutsches Reich."