Adolf Hitler

CHILDHOOD

Alois Hitler (Adolf Hitler’s father) Married his cousin and gave
birth to three other children before Adolf, who both died at a
very young age, so when Adolf was born on April 20th, 1989,
his mother was very attached to him, and his family moved
around a lot so Adolf went to 5 elementary schools. Adolf's
father Alois punished him severely so him and his father had a
complicated relationship, while he loved his mother. Adolf was brilliant
and his teachers praised him a lot. He also loved reading and was very
popular with other kids, but he started getting into trouble as he grew
older. He was smoking ,raiding places and his grades were changing from
A’s to F’s. Adolf went against everything his father said, so because his
father was an Austrian public official Adolf was big into German
nationalism. When Adolf was ten his six-year-old brother whom he loved a
lot passed away, which changed Adolf, he started talking to trees and
looking at the stars from the cemetery wall his brother was buried in. He
lost interest in mostly anything, and instead of reading he started finding a
love for art and wanted to be an artist. Adolf passed his final semester
exam but did not take the overall final school exam, instead, he dropped
out and became unemployed at the age of 16

Adulthood

Adolf went to Vienna to go see his very sick mother who sadly
passed away. Adolf stayed in Vienna hoping he could still
become an artist, so he took an entrance exam but he failed.
Adolf ended up on the streets and tried to make money from his
paintings. Adolf went in and out of homeless shelters, his time in Vienna
made him start to think that the Aryan race was the best race and Jews
were the worst. When he turned 24 he moved from Vienna to Munich
Germany to avoid doing military service. Until 1914 the first World War
happened, and Adolf volunteered to join the German military, despite the
horrors of the war, Adolf said it was “the best time of his life”. However, in
1916 an artillery shell injured his leg, he went back to Germany to recover,
he went back to war, and in 1918 he got temporarily blinded by a British
gas attack while recovering he heard about Germany’s defeat. He got
angry that Germany had to pay a lot of money and lose a lot of soldiers due
to the peace treaty, Hitler believed that Jews and Communists were the
cause of Germany’s loss. Due to the loss of soldiers, Hitler could not be a
soldier anymore but he was still working for the army as an informant. He
was tasked to find a communist party by the army. A new party called the
German Worker Party seemed like a threat, so Adolf went to one of their
meetings and realized they were Fascists so Adolf left the army and joined
the party. Very soon Adolf became the leader of the party and renamed it
the National-sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or Nazi for short. Hitler
made promises to return Germany to its glory and cancel the peace treaty,
to make Germany a whole again and only Aryan people could be citizens.
The Nazis soon became the leading party in the extreme right movement,
Adolf had a group called the storm detachment or SA for short which were
used to defend Nazi party meetings, and intimidate political opponents.
Since allies made Germany reduce their soldiers, which made many
trained soldiers unemployed, they liked the Nazi ideology and they joined
the SA. As Germany tried to pay allies they had to print more money which
made money less valuable and caused the economy to crash. In 1923 Adolf
and his army marched on the street of Munich hoping the police would
take their side, but they didn't, instead Hitler was put on trial for treason,
He could have been sentenced to life but instead got 5 years in which he
only spent 9 months,
And while in prison he wrote a book. The whole affair was covered by the
media and made Hitler famous, Hitler and his message was now known
throughout Germany, but an average German still didn't care about him, in
fact, in the 1928 election, the Nazis only won about 2.6% of the vote.
Hitler claimed he was the only one who could return Germany to its former
glory, and the Nazis used propaganda to make people think Hitler was a
great and powerful man and made people think all their suffering was all
because of Jews. Election after election the Nazis became more powerful
Until in 1932 they became the biggest party in the German parliament.
Hitler started to believe he was the savior of Germany. He decided to run
for president but lost to the extremely popular world war 1 general, Paul
Von Hindenburg, Since he was the leader of the biggest party he
demanded Hindenburg to make him chancellor, but Hindenburg was
reluctant seeing how un politician like Hitler was, industries urged
Hindenburg to give Hitler chancellorship. Leader of the center party Von
Papen, who had been secretly negotiating with Hitler, convinced
Hindenburg to give Hitler chancellor. Hitler became chancellor of Germany
in January 1933 but he was not yet a dictator. In February the German
parliament building was set on fire, Hitler blamed communists for the fire,
and convinced Hindenburg to let him imprison all communists and all
political opponents in the first concentration camp in Dachau. At this time
the elderly Hindenburg passed away, giving Hitler the perfect opportunity,
he introduced a law to the parliament letting him make all future laws and
decisions, with his political opponents in camp and the SA intimidating
others his law passed, just two months of being chancellor, Hitler became
a dictator. He still had one problem the captain of the SA Ernst Röhm
wanted the SA to take the jobs of the regular German army and the
German army didn't like that idea, Hitler had to keep the support of his
well-trained army more than his reckless SA, so one night in June 1934 he
had Röhm and many others of the SA murdered with others like politicians
who disagreed with him reporters who printed negative articles about him
or the Nazis and many others, Now that the army knew they weren't going
to be replaced they pledged total allegiance to Hitler. Life in Germany
changed, freedom of the press, freedom of expression, and freedom of
public assembly were all banned, Jews were treated horribly, and soon
Hitler would go on to have 6 million Jewish men, women, and children
killed in concentration camps. The Hitler youth became a way to brainwash
the young, boys were trained to fight in camp and came back home violent,
girls were told the purpose was to give birth to pure Aryan race children,
and would sometimes return home from camp pregnant, when their
parents were horrified their children threatened to turn them in, for
standing in the way of Germany’s greatness. The standard greeting
changed, it became “Heil Hitler!” and you could be sent to a concentration
camp for not using it, this way it seemed like everyone was a Nazi
supporter. If you dared to speak against Hitler you would be sent to a
concentration camp. He initiated World War II in Europe by invading
Poland on 1 September 1939. He befriended Italy

WORLD WAR II

Germany’s war strategy was assumed by Hitler from the

first. When the successful campaign against Poland failed to

produce the desired peace accord with Britain, he ordered

made some of his reluctant generals postpone the western offensive. This

in turn led to two major changes in planning. The first was Hitler’s order to

forestall an eventual British presence in Norway by occupying that country

and Denmark in April 1940. Hitler took a close personal interest in this

daring operation. From this time onward his intervention in the detail of

military operations grew steadily greater. The second was Hitler’s

important adoption of General Erich von Manstein’s plan for an attack

was a brilliant and startling success. The German armies reached the

Channel ports (which they had been unable to reach during World War I) in

10 days. Holland surrendered after 4 days and Belgium after 16 days.

Hitler held back General Gerd von Rundstedt’s tanks south of Dunkirk,

thus enabling the British to evacuate most of their army, but the western

campaign as a whole was amazingly successful. On June 10 Italy entered

armistice with the French on the site of the Armistice of 1918.

The attack against the U.S.S.R. was launched on June 22, 1941. The

German army advanced swiftly into the Soviet Union, corralling almost

three million Russian prisoners, but it failed to destroy its Russian

opponent. Hitler became overbearing in his relations with his generals. He

disagreed with them about the object of the main attack, and he wasted

time and strength by failing to concentrate on a single objective. In

finally made it clear that Hitler’s hopes of a single campaign could not be

realized. After January 1945 Hitler never left the Chancellery in Berlin or

its bunker, abandoning a plan to lead a final resistance in the south as the

Soviet forces closed in on Berlin. In a state of extreme nervous exhaustion,

he at last accepted the inevitability of defeat and thereupon prepared to

take his own life on April 30th, 1945, leaving to its fate the country over

which he had taken absolute command. In his final will and testament,
written just before his suicide in April 1945, he charged the Germans to

continue the struggle against the Jews: “Above all, I enjoin the government

and the people to uphold the race laws to the limit and to resist

mercilessly the poisoner of all nations, international Jewry.”