He drew pictures for postcards and paintings of famous buildings, for a living, but he did not earn enough money to live well. He became a vagrant homeless person. He was lost. He did not know what to do.
During this time, Hitler began to form his political views: a strong sense of German nationalism, the beginnings of anti-Semitism, and distaste for the ruling family and political structure of Austria-Hungary. Like many German-speaking citizens of Austria-Hungary, Hitler considered himself first and foremost a German.
-Hitler, the fighting soldier-
In 1914, The First World War began. Hitler became a soldier, to fight for his country and to win the war.
He respected being a soldier. He was brave and won a medal, ’The Iron Cross’. Near the end of the war, he was gassed. He was very ill and nearly became blind, as the gas had affected his eyes dreadfully. He recovered as the war was coming to an end, in 1918. He was horrendously horrified. His beloved Germany had lost the war.
Britain, France and America won the First World War. The German were very embittered and resentful as to losing. They could not believe that they had lost the battle fairly and evenly. They thought they had been betrayed, and wondered if their government, likewise, had been bribed with a significant amount of money to give up the war.
-The Nazi Party-
Germany had to pay for damage that it had done in the war. This made the country very poor. Hitler could not stand it. He felt resentful and bitter, as his dearly loved country had lost the war, and now was in a terrible state. He wanted to lead his country, because he wanted Germany to rise again, yet more and more greater, by the minute. So, he joined together with some others. They formed a group called the Nazi Party. The group worked intensely hard to make their much-loved Germany greater and richer. Gradually, the Nazi Party became bigger and bigger. More and more people joined in, for the sake of their adored country. They went to listen to Hitler’s speeches, as he had an astonishing talent in public speaking that could convince people as a result, effortlessly. People stood and listened to him for two hours without moving, seeing that they believed everything he said.
He told the people at his speeches, that he would make Germany great, and find them jobs and make them rich.
So, they followed Hitler for the reason that they all secretly wanted to be great and get rich, as they assumed that Hitler would do as he acquainted with them.
-Hitler, the German leader-
Hitler became the leader of Germany in 1933. Some Germans disliked him and the Nazi Party, as they said the Nazis were brutal and vicious. It was also said that Hitler and the Nazis had stopped people being able to vote for the government. Hitler hated people having these ideas, which could put him under pressure and anxiety, so he sent these people in to prison.
Hitler loathed and hated Jewish people. At that time, there were many Jews in Germany then, but they had not done any harm, what so ever. They did not speak against Hitler, but still, to be on the safe side, he put them into prison. These Jews were cruelly treated in prison. Many suffered horribly and millions died.
Hitler had a private army. This was named the Schutz Staffeln, but known as the S.S for brief. He also made a secret police force called the Gestapo. The S.S and the Gestapo made sure that no disobeyed the mighty Hitler.
Children were brought up to love and respect Hitler, their one and only leader. They were taught to report to their teachers anyone who spoke hostile to Hitler, e.g. their parents, friends,…………………
Subsequently, these people would be sent to prison.
-Germany wants more land-
Germany became stronger and superior. Its army was made better and larger by the minute. Its navy was made bigger and better. Its air force was made bigger and bigger. But a problem came up. Hitler wanted more land. He hunted to make a grand German Empire. It would be called the Third Reich.
By 1938, he was ready to seize more land. He turned on Austria, and the Austrians gave up without a fight. Afterwards, he turned on Czechoslovakia, which he took part of in 1938. The next year, he took the remainder of that Czechoslovakia. In September 1938, he took Poland.
Britain and France were extremely worried.
What would Hitler do next?
Maybe, he might turn on France then Britain. This philosophy made them very nervous.
Neither France nor Britain wanted to be conquered by Hitler and his country, Germany.
So therefore, they declared war on Germany in September 1939.
The foundation opening of World War II.
THE HOLOCAUST
Holocaust (meaning: Greek holo,"whole"; caustos,"burned"), originally, a religious rite in which an offering was entirely consumed by fire. In current tradition, holocaust refers to any widespread human disaster, but when written Holocaust, its special meaning is the almost complete destruction of the Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany
As his armies were rolling through the Polish struggle, Hitler stepped up the elimination of peoples he saw as inferior to Germans. Shortly after their 1939 conquest of Poland, the Germans began killing thousands of Poles and driving thousands more out of their homes to make way for German settlers. The Nazis also herded Jewish Poles into city ghettoes, killing thousands of them and condemning the rest to starvation. Within Germany, Hitler ordered a program to systematically kill handicapped Germans, and over 200,000 were eventually murdered.
The German authorities planned to kill all Jews in the portions of the USSR they occupied and began the process in the summer of 1941. In late July 1941, Hitler decided to extend the systematic killing of Jews to all of German-occupied Europe. After the renewed German offensive in the USSR in October 1941 appeared to make great progress, he decided the time had come to go even further: All Jews on earth would be killed. However, the Nazis found that German police and soldiers who did the killing were often traumatized by the experience. To make the slaughter faster and less stressful, the Germans built specially designed death camps, primarily in occupied Poland, to which Jews and other prisoners from all over Europe were transported. These camps contained large gas chambers where hundreds of prisoners at a time could be quickly, easily, and impersonally murdered by poison gas.
In his public speeches, Hitler repeatedly referred to the killing of Europe's Jews but without detailing the process. Because the Allies halted Germany's forces, Hitler's global ambitions were not realized; however, of the approximately 18 million Jews in the world, one-third was killed in what came to be known as the Holocaust. The great majority of European Jews perished, a fact that Hitler boasted of in his last testament.
