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ADOLF HITLER

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889 in Braunau, Austria. He was the
fourth child of Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Hitler. The couple's first three
offsprings died as children, but more two more were born later, in addition to Adolf's
half siblings from his father's previous marriage. A housemaid described Adolf's father
as a strict but comfortable man, and his mother was known to give Adolf much love and
affection. As a child, Adolf was very skilled at artwork, and even went to a special
school for awhile, but he didn't do well there. His father died in 1903 of a pleural
hemorrhage, and his mother died in 1907 of breast cancer. Hitler spent six years in
Vienna, Austria, the center of anti-Semitism. He was virtually penniless. These years
helped him develop prejudices about Jews, and an interest in politics. At the time, two
of his closest friends were Jewish and he admired many Jewish art dealers and operatic
performers and producers. Hitler later was arrested for avoiding military service for
World War I. When he was eventually caught, he was found "unfit...too weak...and unable
to bear arms."1 Later, he served four years. Near the end of the war, Hitler was
partially blinded when he was exposed to poison gas. In 1919, Adolf joined the German
Workers' Party (later renamed National Socialist German Workers' - or Nazi - Party). In
1921, he was elected as the party's chairman, or Fuhrer. Later in 1923, Hitler led an
uprising against the Weimar Republic, the German government. Unfortunately for him, the
uprising failed, and he was sentenced to five years in prison. He only served nine moths
of this sentence though, during which he dictated his auto-biography, Mein Kampf (My
Struggle). [The Jews'] ultimate goal is the denaturalization, the promiscuous
bastardization of other peoples, the lowering of the racial level of the highest peoples
as well as the domination of his racial mishmash through the extirpation of the folkish
intelligentsia and its replacement by the members of his own people, he wrote.2 A second
volume of Mein Kampf was published in 1927, and more than five million copies of the book
were sold before the beginning of World War II. ____________________ 1.
http://remember.org/Facts.root.hitler.html Hitler's Early Life. 2.
http://remember.org/Facts.root.hitler.html Mein Kampf Picture: And so I believe to-day
that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. In standing guard
against the Jew I am defending the handiwork of the Lord. ~Mein Kampf Hitler made many
famous speeches during his rise to power. A few are quoted in certain areas of this
report. His goal was to create a new empire that would last for one thousand years. He
ran for president in 1932 and became chancellor in January, 1933. In November, 1937, he
outlined his master plan as described in Mein Kampf at "FAhrer Conference." World War II
began in September of 1939, when Germany attacked Poland. By then, Germany had already
taken over Austria and Czechoslovakia. In 1940, Hitler conquered Poland, the Netherlands,
Denmark, Norway, Belgium, France, and almost Britain. His next move would be attacking
the Soviet Union, even though he had recently made a non-aggression pact with them in
1939. His attempt took place in June of 1941, but the Soviet armies were ready for
attack, and turned the momentum of the war against Germany. Soon after, Hitler ordered
that all Jews be destroyed. The Nazis called this die Endlosung (the Final Solution).
Jews were shot on the spot, wherever they might have been found. Extermination camps and
concentration camps were set up to speed up the process to rid the world of the Jewish
faith. "By the end of the war, approximately six million Jews had been shot, gassed, or
worked to death."3 By April, 1945, Hitler realized that his attempt to take over the
world was now useless. The war was virtually lost for Germany. Part of his goal had been
accomplished though. He had killed two-thirds of all the Jews in Europe. Hitler and his
wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide on April 30th, 1945. ____________________ 1.
http://www.holocaust-history.org/short-essays/adolf-hitler.shtml Who Was Adolf Hitler? A
Speech By Adolf Hitler My first and foremost task... Once I really am in power, my first
and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews. As soon as I have the power to do
so, I will have gallows built in rows - at the Marienplatz in Munich, for example - as
many as traffic allows. Then the Jews will be hanged indiscriminately, and they will
remain hanging until they stink; they will hang there as long as the principles of
hygiene permit. As soon as they have been untied, the next batch will be strung up, and
so on down the line, until the last Jew in Munich has been exterminated. Other cities
will follow suit, precisely in this fashion, until all Germany has been completely
cleansed of Jews. (1) ...and: When I now broached the question of what the source of his
so strongly felt hatred for the Jews was, and why he wanted to destroy this so undeniably
intelligent race - a race to which the Germans and all other Aryans, if not the entire
world, owed an incalculable debt in virtually all fields of art and knowledge, research
and economics - Hitler suddenly calmed down and gave this unexpectedly sober and almost
dispassionate explanation: It is manifestly clear and has been proven in practice and by
the facts of all revolutions that a struggle for ideals, for improvements of any kind
whatsoever, absolutely must be supplemented with a struggle against some social class or
caste. My object is to create first-rate revolutionary upheavals, regardless of what
methods and means I have to use in the process. Earlier revolutions were directed either
against the peasants, or the nobility and the clergy, or against dynasties and their
network of vassals, but in no case has revolution succeeded without the presence of a
lightning rod that could conduct and channel the odium of the general masses. With this
very thing in mind I scanned the revolutionary events of history and put the question to
myself against which racial element in Germany can I unleash my propaganda of hate with
the greatest prospects of success? I had to find the right kind of victim, and especially
one against whom the struggle would make sense, materially speaking. I can assure you
that I examined every possible and thinkable solution to this problem, and, weighing
every imaginable factor, I came to the conclusion that a campaign against the Jews would
be as popular as it would be successful. There are few Germans who have not been vexed
with the behavior of Jews or else have not suffered losses through them in some way or
other. Disproportionately to their small number they account for an immense share of the
German national wealth, which can just as easily be put to profitable use for the state
and the general public as could the holdings of the monasteries, bishops, and nobility.
Once the hatred and the battle against the Jews have been really stirred up, their
resistance will necessarily crumble in the shortest possible time. They are totally
defenseless, and no one will stand up to protect them.(2) Footnotes 1. Josef Hell,
Aufzeichnung, 1922, ZS 640, p. 5, Institute fuer Zeitgeschichte. The retired Major Josef
Hell was a journalist in the twenties and in the beginning of the thirties, during which
time he also collaborated with Dr. Fritz Gerlich, the editor of the weekly newspaper Der
Gerade Weg, as cited in Fleming, Gerald. Hitler and the Final Solution. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1984. p. 17 2. Ibid., as cited in Fleming, pp. 28-29
Found at: http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/hitler-1922.html Adolf Hitler
Quotes Great liars are also great magicians. Adolf Hitler The only people I have been
able to use are those who fought. Adolf Hitler My will decides. Adof Hitler The German
people is not warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war
but does not fear it. It loves peace but it also loves its humor and freedom. Nature is
cruel; therefore we are also entitled to be cruel. When I send the flower of German youth
into the steel hail of the next war without feeling the slightest regret over the
precious German blood that is being spilled, should I not also have the right to
eliminate millions of an inferior race that multiplies like vermin? (Adolf Hitler, cited
in Joachim Fest's 1975 Hitler) 
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Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau, Austria, a small town across the Inn
River from Germany. Soon after Hitler's birth, his father, Alois Hitler, moved the family
to Linz, Austria. Hitler attended school in Linz and at first was a good student, but in
high school he was a very poor student. Hitler's academic abilities angered his father
because his father hoped that Hitler would study to become a government worker as he had
been. Hitler, however, wanted to become an artist.
In 1907, Hitler went to Vienna Austria. in an attempt to fulfill his dream of becoming an
artist. This attempt ended when he failed the entrance exam to the Academy of Fine Arts.
When Hitler's mother died in 1907, he decided to remain in Vienna. He took the entrance
exam a year later and failed again. He did not have steady work in Vienna, but, instead,
took a variety of odd jobs. He lived in cheap rooming houses or slept on park benches and
he often had to get meals from charity kitchens. During his time in Vienna Hitler learned
to hate non-Germans. Hitler was a German-speaking Austrian and considered himself German.
He ridiculed the Austrian government for recognizing eight languages as official and
believed that no government could last if it treated ethnic groups equally.
In 1913, Hitler went to Munich, Germany and when World War I began in 1914, he
volunteered for service in the German army. Hitler was twice decorated for bravery, but
only rose to the rank of corporal. When World War I ended. Hitler was in a hospital
recovering from temporary blindness possibly caused by a poison gas attack. The
Versailles Treaty that ended the war stripped Germany of much of its territory, forced
the country to disarm, and ordered Germany to pay huge reparations. When the army
returned to Germany. the country was in despair. The country was bankrupt and millions of
people were unemployed.
In 1920, Hitler joined the National Socialist German Workers Party known as the Nazis.
The Nazis called for all Germans, even those in other countries, to unite into one
nation; they called for a strong central government; and they called for the cancellation
of the Versailles Treaty. Hitler became leader of the Nazi party and built up membership
quickly, mostly because of his powerful speaking ability. Hitler organized an army for
the Nazi party called the Storm Troopers (Brown Shirts) who were called upon to fight
groups seeking to disband the Nazi rallies.
On November 9, 1923, Hitler led more than 2,000 Storm Troopers on a march to seize the
Bavarian government. The attempt failed and Hitler was arrested and sentenced to prison
for five years for treason. While in prison, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle). In
this book. he stated his beliefs and plans for Germany's future. Hitler only served nine
months in prison and when he was released, he began to rebuild the party again. He set up
a private battle-ready elite guard known as the Schutzstaffel (SS). By 1929, the Nazis
had become an important minor political party.
In 1930, a worldwide depression hit Germany, yet Germany also had the debt of paying for
the damage it had caused in World War I. Hitler protested against paying the debt and
said that the Jews and Communists were the cause for Germany's defeat in World War I. He
promised to rid Germany of Jews and Communists and to reunite the German speaking part of
Europe.
In July, 1932, the Nazis received about 40% of the vote and became the strongest party in
Germany. On January 30,1933, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor of
Germany. Once in this position, Hitler moved quickly toward attaining a dictatorship.
When von Hindenburg died in 1934, Hitler already had control of Germany and he gave
himself the title Fuehrer (leader).
Under Hitler's government, called the Third Reich, there was no place for freedom. The
government controlled every part of one's life. Hitler used extensive propaganda to
brainwash the nation into believing his theory about creating the perfect Aryan or nordic
race. Therefore, it was Hitler's plan to rid the nation and eventually the world of Jews,
Gypsies, Negroes, handicapped, and mentally ill persons. This plan was called the Final
Solution.
World War II began in 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland to begin his unification of all
German-speaking peoples. By this time extermination camps were being established
throughout Germany, Poland, and Russia.
Before Hitler was stopped in 1945 by the Allied countries, he had caused the
extermination over 12 million people. Hitler committed suicide in his bunker on April
30,1945 and seven days later, Germany surrendered. 
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