Adolf Hitler Biography
Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany Between “1934 to 1945”. He induced World War II
Synopsis
Adolf Hitler born in Austria in 1889 and he grows up in Germany. He rises to power in German politics as leader of Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party). He was chancellor of Germany 1933 to 1945 and served as Military Leader, a dictator from 1934 to 1945. For his policy accelerate to World War II and the holocaust. Hitler suicide with his wife Eva Braun on 30th April 1945 in his Berlin bunker.
Early Years
Adolf Hitler born in Branau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889 and he was fourth of six children of his father mother. His father name is Alois Hitler and mother name is Klara Polzl. His father was a senior customs official in Braunau and mother was from a poor peasant family.
When Hitler 3 years old, his family moved to Germany. After the death of his Younger Brother (Edmund) in 1900, he becomes detach an introvert.
At primary school, Hitler showed his great talent. He was extremely popular in school, as well as being extolled for his leadership qualities. However, at secondary school competition was very hard and he stopped trying as a result. He lost his popularity among fellow students too and instead preferred to reenact battles from the Boer war with younger children. His father does not approve of his interest in fine art than business. At 15 year old he failed his exams and suggests to repeating the year, but he left.
Alois die suddenly in 1903. At the age of 18, he to Vienna with his inherited money. He starts work as a casual laborer and a watercolor painter. In order to explore a career in art, as that was his best subject at school. But his applications for both the Vienna Academy of Art and the School of Architecture are rejected. Out of money, he moves into a homeless shelter, where he remains for few years. It supposedly at this time, Hitler first becomes interested in politics. He particularly impressed with the anti-Semitic, nationalist Christian-Socialist party.
During the First World War, he Volunteers to fight for the German army and gain a rank of corporal, earn accolades as a dispatch-runner. He wins several awards for bravery, receiving the Iron Cross First Class and the Black Wound Badge.
At 1918`s October, he blinded in a mustard gas attack. While Hitler in hospital, Germany surrendered and he gone into a state of great depression. As like as other German nationalists, he also believed that the German army betrayed by civilian leaders and Marxists.
After World War I, Hitler returns to Munich and continue to work for the military as an intelligence officer. While he monitoring the activities of the German Workers Party (DAP). Hitler adopted many of anti-Semitic, nationalist and anti-Marxist ideas of DAP founder Anton Drexler. Drexler invited Hitler to join DAP, and he does it in 1919.
The DAP changed its name to Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (NSDAP) to increase its appeal, NSDAP also calls Nazi Party. The party banner personally designed by Hitler, featuring a swastika in a white circle on a red background. Soon, Hitler gains ill reputation for his vitriolic speeches against the treaty of Versailles, rival politicians, Jews, and Marxists. Hitler replaces Drexler as NSDAP party chairman in 1921.
Hitler`s vitriolic beer hall speeches begin attracting a regular audience, included army captain Ernst Rohm who is the head of the Nazi paramilitary organization, the Sturmabteilung (SA), which protect meetings and frequently attack political opponents.
On 8th November 1923, Hitler and the SA storm a public meeting of 3000 people at a large beer hall in Munich. Hitler announces that the national revolutions has begun and declare the formation of a new government. After a short struggle including 20 deaths, the coup, known as the “Beer Hall Putsch,” failed.
Three days later, Hitler arrested in the cause of tried for treason. He served a year in lockup. While he in prison, he writes Mein Kampf (My Struggle), which is base on his political ideas.
Rise to Power
Hitler gets a political opportunity from the Great Depression. In 1932, Hitler comes second in the presidential elections against Paul von Hindenburg. On 30th January 1933, President Hindenburg reluctantly agreed to appoint Hitler as Chancellor in order to promote political balance.
In office, Hitler set about fix his power, appointing Nazis to Government and gaining control of the emergency powers. He allayed all opposition in the name of emergency control and in 1934 Hitler`s power secured with the death of Hindenburg. On 14th July 1933, Hitler declares Nazi Party is the only legal political party in Germany.
Hitler put Germany`s unemployed to work on a great rearmament program. The Nazi government also included social reform measures. Hitler is the first people, who promote anti-smoking campaigns across the country. He encourages all Germans to keep their bodies pure of any intoxicating or dirty substance. New laws banned marriage between non-Jewish and Jewish Germans. Firstly Hitler eugenic policies target children with physical and developmental disabilities and then authorized a euthanasia program for disabled adults.
Between “1939 to 1945”, Nazis and their collaborators are responsible for the deaths of about 13 million people, including about 6 million Jews. Hitler probably never visits the concentration camps and do not speak publicly about the killings.
World War II
In 1936, Hitler invades the Rhineland, which has demilitarized at Versailles. Then he proceeds to annex Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia. Under the Munich Agreement of 1938, the West accepts this.
In 1939, Hitler made an alliance with Italy (Pact of Steel) and with Russia (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact). On 1st September 1939, Hitler invades Poland and the Second World War begins as a result. In April 1940, Denmark and Norway also take by Germany. France quickly follows.
After conquered much of Western Europe, now Hitler turn his sights east. In 1941, despite the amity, Germany invades Russia under Operation Barbarossa. It is one of the biggest mistakes. With the German Advance slow by Russians ‘scorched earth’ policy, the German army found them in the Russian winter without an adequate supply line. They stated their long retreat in 1943.
At the same time the Western Allies are pushing hard, and begin to advance on Germany. In response, Hitler withdrew almost completely. It was reported that he was increasingly erratic and out of touch.
Death and Legacy
Early 1945, Hitler realizes that Germany is going to lose the war. The Russian has driven the German army back into Western Europe; the Allies are advancing into Germany. On 29th April 1945, Hitler married his girlfriend (Eva Braun) in a small civil ceremony in his Berlin bunker. Around this time, Hitler informed of the assassination of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Afraid of falling into hands of enemy traps, Hitler and Braun committed suicide the day after their wedding, April 30th, 1945. Their bodies are carried to the bombed-out garden behind the Reich Chancellery. There they are burned. Berlin fails on 2nd May 1945. After 5 days, on 7th May 1945, Germany surrenders unconditionally to the Allies.
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