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.

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

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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Hitler Youth

How did Hitler control the German youth? Hitler wanted to control the German youth because Hitler knew he would never get the support off the majority of the adults in Germany and also if he were to control the youth Hitler was able to make an impact on the future. To do this; Hitler changed the school's curriculum so Nazi ideas were taught in school and also held youth meetings. With long term aim of giving the youths the aggression needed for war. Hitler wanted the youth to be strong, violent, masterful, brave, cruel and to have had no intellectual training as he thought it wasn't important. To ensure his idea of the youth became a reality, Hitler gave the youths tasks to fulfil in their spare time. The youth spent their spare time doing physical activities; such as hiking, running, jumping and listening to Nazi ideas. The Hitler youth were to meet every day after school and all day Saturday. At the meetings, the youths minds were filled with propaganda; the children were easily taken in by the Nazi's lies. Also at the meetings, the children were encouraged to tell tales whether their parents and other adults had ever spoken of anti-Nazi ideas. The curriculum also saw dramatic changes; it was designed to teach what the Nazi's wanted the young people to think. The subject changes include; P.E - Boys were taught mainly boxing but also took part in other

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hitler threats

Asses the main threats to Hitler's political power in the years 1933-1934 Hitler faced many threats to his political power in the years 1933-1934. Having just assumed power, he faced many different opposing forces attempting to unsettle his reign through their unrest, and attempting to remove him from power. One of the most potent threats to Hitler's power was the SA. Source 1 highlights the difference between the two sides. The source, quoting Ernst Rohm, leader of the SA, states that he foresees Hitler's political power being wrecked by a 'reactionary opposition' Having had a strained relationship with the SA leader Ernst Rohm already, this could be seen a warning to Hitler to sort things out or the SA will act it also highlights his ability to form opposition through propaganda on a public stage. Similarly source 2, again quoting a prominent SA figure, highlights the problems that the public faced, for example the 'interference' of the smaller regional governments. This shows that the SA are unhappy with the way that the country is being run, and with their vast numbers poses a threat to Hitler's political power, as they have the ability to unsettle Hitler through propaganda, and they have the power through force to remove him from power A further threat to Hitler's political power were the elites. They wanted to protect their interests, and so needed a stable

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Hitler essay

Aditya Agarwal HISTORY Evaluate the role of ideology in the policies of one right wing, single party ruler, where social organisation was concerned (race relations, family values, education and propaganda etc) Hitler was an iron willed man with great courage and dictatorship skills. He rose to power in the years 1924 to 1933 and finally achieved the role of Fuhrer Prinzip in 1934. He played with words and twisted the minds of the Germans towards Nazi philosophy. The main ideology followed by the Nazis was that of the superiority of the Aryan race, which was further implemented by the policy of Anti-Marxism by Hitler. In Hitler's view, all groups, races, or people carried within them traits that were immutably transmitted from one generation to the next. No individual could triumph over the inborn qualities of race. All of human history could be explained in terms of racial struggle. Hitler used various techniques to spread his ideology of supremacy amongst the Germans as well as other European states. Hitler greatly believed in Darwinism and the theory of "survival of the fittest", for the Nazis it meant the ability to multiply and in turn the accumulation of land to support the growing population. Hitler defined the Jews as a race that was considered inferior, various other groups such as the Poles, Gypsies and Slavs. Jews were sent off to concentration camps where they

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn on the Austrian-German border. Hitler left school at 16 with no qualifications and struggled to make a living as a painter in Vienna. This was where many of his extreme political and racial ideas originated. In 1913, he moved to Munich and, on the outbreak of World War One, enlisted in the German army, where he was wounded. In 1919, he joined the fascist German Workers Party. By 1921 he was the unquestioned leader of what was now the National Socialist German Workers Party or also known as the Nazi Party. In 1923 Hitler attempted an unsuccessful armed uprising in Munich and was imprisoned for nine months. During his time in jail, he dictated 'Mein Kampf', outlining his political ideology, to someone else to write. On his release, he began to rebuild the Nazi Party and used new techniques of mass communication, backed up with violence, to get his message across. The Nazis grew stronger and in the 1932 elections became the largest party in the German parliament. In January 1933 Hitler became chancellor of a coalition government. He quickly began to institute anti-Jewish law. He also began the process of German militarization and territorial expansion that would eventually lead to World War Two. Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 began World War Two. After military successes in Denmark, Norway and Western

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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

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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Hitler - Jews

How did Hitler's policy affect the lives of the Jews? Hitler possessed strong anti-Semitic views for many reasons. He and fellow Nazis were strong believers in Social Darwinism, which was survival of the fittest; Hitler called the superior race in his opinion, the "Aryans". He therefore believed that the Jews should be eliminated. Also, anti-Semitism had a long history, so the Jews were an easy scapegoat for Germany's problems that Hitler could use. In addition to that, the Jewish people were often very successful and wealthy, so Germans thought that they were stealing money from them, and in many instances were jealous of them. So, Hitler adopted strong anti-Semitic policies; they were not the most popular of his decisions, but they were carried out with great strength. There were 5 main stages to the persecution of the Jews: * Livelihoods were attacked, * They were singled out, * Nuremburg Laws, * Violence, * Final Solution. At first, the Jews' livelihoods were attacked. Many of them were sacked from their jobs, such as those who were teachers and doctors. They weren't allowed to serve on a jury or work with Aryans. The next stage was more serious, which was when the Jews were singled out. Their passports were stamped with a "J", and in public they were forced to sit on separate yellow benches. Furthermore, their shops had a Star of David painted on them, and Jews

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