Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria. The town is near to the Austro-German border, and his father, Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border crossing. His mother, Klara, had previously given birth to two other children by Alois, (Gustav and Ida) but they both died in their infancy. Adolf attended school from the age of six and the family lived in various villages around the town of Linz, east of Braunau. By this time Adolf had a younger brother, Edmund, but he only lived until the age of six. In 1896, Klara gave birth to Adolf's sister, Paula, who survived to outlive him. Adolf Hitler grew up with a poor record at school and left, before completing his tuition, with an ambition to become an artist. Alois Hitler had died when Adolf was thirteen and Klara brought up Adolf and Paula on her own. Between the ages of sixteen and nineteen, young Adolf neither worked to earn his keep, nor formally studied, but had gained an interest in politics and history. During this time he unsuccessfully applied for admission to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1913 Adolf Hitler, still a penniless vagrant, moved to Munich in southern Germany. At the outbreak of the First World War, in 1914, he volunteered for service in the German army and was accepted into the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment. Hitler fought bravely in the war and

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Adolf Hitler

ADOLF HITLER Background: Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, the fourth child of Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Hitler in the Austrian town of Braunau. Adolf Hitler was smart and intelligent student when he was in elementary but as he grew older his grades dropped, and so then he dropped out of high school when he was 16. When Adolf father died and then his mother, he still was a young boy. Out of his five siblings, he was the only one alive. He didn't know what to do or where to go because his relatives would not support him and the hatreds towards the Jews grew more because of this situation. Adolf himself was a half Jew because of his mother. Hitler was a vegetarian and a teetotaler; he also did not smoke. He loved animals and doted on young children. At last Hitler died at age of 56 in the year 1945 by committing a suicide. Political Life: Adolf Hitler was a great ruler to some people like the Nazi, but also to others he was a killer towards the Jews. Adolf Hitler was the founder and leader of Nazism, and a German dictator. He had power over the Jewish since the day January 30, 1933. He ordered millions of Jews to be killed or thrown to different concentration camps. Hitler Rise to Power: In the 1930 elections the Hitler's Nazi party captured 18% of the popular vote, which wasn't a lot. Then later In 1932, Hitler ran for President and won 30% of the vote,

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, the fourth child of Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Hitler in the Austrian town of Braunau. Two of his siblings died from diphtheria when they were children, and one died shortly after birth. Alois was a customs official, illegitimate by birth, who was described by his housemaid as a "very strict but comfortable" man. Young Adolf was showered with love and affection by his mother. When Adolf was three years old, the family moved to Passau, along the Inn River on the German side of the border. A brother, Edmond, was born two years later. The family moved once more in 1895 to the farm community of Hafeld, 30 miles southwest of Linz. Another sister, Paula, was born in 1896, the sixth of the union, supplemented by a half brother and half sister from one of his father's two previous marriages. Following another family move, Adolf lived for six months across from a large Benedictine monastery. The monastery's coat of arms' most salient feature was a swastika. As a youngster, Adolf's dream was to enter the priesthood. While there is anecdotal evidence that Adolf's father regularly beat him during his childhood, it was not unusual for discipline to be enforced in that way during that period. By 1900, Hitler's talents as an artist surfaced. He did well enough in school to be eligible for either the university preparatory

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Adolf Hitler

For the past week I have been researching three men, Joseph Stalin, Mao, and Adolf Hitler for an answer to a question; who is the most evil? Which, means that I had to think about what exactly was evil for me. Now the dictionary they have a simple definition for it, which is: morally reprehensible, sinful, wicked. But there could be so many different meanings, because there are many different people in the world. So, these three men were judged on my definition of evil. Evil to me is someone who consciously knows what there doing but still doesn't care, someone who purposely tries to cause destruction on other people, one who possibly thinks that they are somewhat of a messiah, and someone who manipulates people, especially children, into thinking that what they believe is what they are suppose to believe in a fight for. And after many articles, papers, direct quotes, and book scanning, I have come up with my answer. After getting into his mind, reading his thoughts, and listening to his speeches, I have to say Adolf Hitler. Killing people in it is evil but his manipulation, power, and demented thoughts, he acted on, terrified me. This man appalls me. Everything he represents and started repulses me. When I look at pictures of him I know in my heart that what I am looking at is pure evil, and that's why I know it is him that I am going to write about. Adolf Hitler was born at

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Adolf Hitler.

Adolf Hitler . THE BEGINNING At half past six on the evening of April 20th, 1889 a child was born in the small town of Branau, Austria. The name of the child was Adolf Hitler. He was the son a Customs official Alois Hitler, and his third wife Klara. As a young boy Adolf attendated church regulary and sang in the local choir. One day he carved a symbol into the bench which resembled the Swastika he later used as the symbol of the Nazi party. He was a pretty good student. He received good marks in most of his classes. However in his last year of school he failed German and Mathematics, and only succeeded in Gym and Drawing. He drooped out of school at the age of 16, spending a total of 10 years in school. From childhood one it was his dream to become an artist or architect. He was not a bad artist, as his surviving paintings and drawings show but he never showed any originality or creative imagination. To fullfil his dream he had moved to Vienna the capital of Austria where the Academy of arts was located. He failed the first time he tried to get admission and in the next year, 1907 he tried again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter."1 The

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Adolf Hitler

Hitler. Possibly the most powerful man in the world at one point. How did this come to be? How did on struggling artist become the most powerful and most hated man in the world? Simple. He was a "genius". Despite the vibe of being a Hitler supporter, you will find that he was actually pretty smart, and if he tried not to become a megalomaniac, he would have been a fantastic leader. Perhaps he was. The Early Years Adolf Hitler was born in April 20th, 1889, the 4th child of Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Hitler. There is rumors about his father, the most speculated was that Hitler's father was actually a Jew, and also a illegal immigrant When Hitler was 3 years old, the family moved to Passau, along the Inn River on the German side of the border. His brother, Edmond was born 2 years later. The family moved again, and his sister was born. His housekeeper described Alois as "A very strict, but comfortable man". Young Adolf was showed with gifts and love by her mother. As a young child he was spoilt rotten, by his mother, who was incapable of disciplining him, so he was given everything he wanted. As a pre-teen Hitler loved to shoot rats. He is recorded to have thrashed a dog in order to impress a girlfriend, with this behavior, he got the nickname "Wolf" - his dream was to enter "The Preisthood". The house he was born in is now a center of international

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adolf hitler

Adolf Hitler Top of Form Bottom of Form Top of Form Bottom of Form Spartacus, USA History, British History, Second World War, First World War, Germany, Nazi Germany, Teaching History, History Lessons Online, Author, Search Website, Email Adolf Hitler was born on 20th April, 1889, in the small Austrian town of Braunau near the German border. Both Hitler's parents had come from poor peasant families. His father Alois Hitler, the illegitimate son of a housemaid, was an intelligent and ambitious man and later became a senior customs official. Klara Hitler was Alois' third wife. Alois was twenty-three years older than Klara and already had two children from his previous marriages. Klara and Alois had five children but only Adolf and a younger sister, Paula, survived to become adults. Alois, who was fifty-one when Adolf was born, was extremely keen for his son to do well in life. Alois did have another son by an earlier marriage but he had been a big disappointment to him and eventually ended up in prison for theft. Alois was a strict father and savagely beat his son if he did not do as he was told. Hitler did extremely well at primary school and it appeared he had a bright academic future in front of him. He was also popular with other pupils and was much admired for his leadership qualities. He was also a deeply religious child and for a while considered the possibility

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler had several great impacts on World History as a whole. Such as he persecuted the Jews, broke the Treaty of Versailles and the Munich Conference which caused the beginning of WWII. This created many changes in America as a whole. Nazi propaganda loudly proclaimed that Germans were a superior race destined to rule the world. At the same time, they preached that Jews, Poles, Americans, and other groups were inferior races. Hitler and the Nazi's blamed the Jews for most of Germany's problems since World War I. He used the Jews as convenient scapegoats for Germany's troubles causing Nazi violence to steadily mount. Nazi mobs carried out a spontaneous demonstration of anger against Jews. They were beaten and killed in the streets, forced to wear the Star of David, and sent to concentration camps. These camps used poisonous gases to kill Jews at Auschwitz, a German concentration camp, Nazi officials slaughtered up to 30,000 people a day. This horrible destruction of human life is now known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust demonstrated that evil orders must never be obeyed and that the values of tolerance and respect for others must be preserved. Hitler wrote in his book, Mein Kampf, that since the Germans were a master race, the Treaty of Versailles was an intolerable outrage against Germany. The treaty of Versailles had forbidden Germany placing troops in

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Adolf Hitler.

We can see picture's of Adolf Hitler below: Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, in 1889. He was born into a troubled household. When he was younger he dreamed of becoming an artist yet these dreams were crushed when he was turned away from the arts college in which he attended going. After this even in Hitler's life, he started to listen to the mayor of Vienna at that time, who was called Luegar. Luegar was a Nazi, who had very anti- Semitic views; this seems to be the logical answer for Hitler and his problems. Hitler planned to get rid of the Jews from the very beginning; we can see this from a letter in which he wrote to Josef Hell in 1922, "If I am ever in power the destruction of the Jews will be my first and most important job. As soon as I have power I shall have gallows erected then the Jews will be hanged one after another and will stay hanging until they stink." Also whilst in prison Hitler wrote a book called Mien Kampf. In this book Hitler made his hatred for the Jews clear. References to the "filthy Jew" litter the book. In one section, Hitler wrote about how the Jews planned to "contaminate" the blood of pure Germans: "The Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end.......spying on the unsuspicious German girl he plans to seduce..........He wants to contaminate her blood and remove her from the bosom of her own people. The Jew hates the white race and wants to

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Adolf Hitler Synopsis.

Adolf Hitler Synopsis Adolf Hitler, a charismatic, Austrian-born demagogue, rose to power in Germany during the 1920s and early 1930s at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval. Failing to take power by force in 1923, he eventually won power by democratic means. Once in power, he eliminated all opposition and launched an ambitious program of world domination and elimination of the Jews, paralleling ideas he advanced in his book, Mein Kampf. His "1,000 Year Reich" barely lasted 12 years and he died a broken and defeated man. Hitler's Early Life Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, the fourth child of Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Hitler in the Austrian town of Braunau. Two of his siblings died from diphtheria when they were children, and one died shortly after birth. Alois was a customs official, illegitimate by birth, who was described by his housemaid as a "very strict but comfortable" man. Young Adolf was showered with love and affection by his mother. When Adolf was three years old, the family moved to Passau, along the Inn River on the German side of the border. A brother, Edmond, was born two years later. The family moved once more in 1895 to the farm community of Hafeld, 30 miles southwest of Linz. Another sister, Paula, was born in 1896, the sixth of the union, supplemented by a half brother and half sister from one of his father's two previous

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