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Essay on Adolf Hitler
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06-07-01 2:01pm |
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Biographies |
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
1.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."
The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could
not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma.
During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection
he received in the dean's office that day. Many Historians like to speculate
what would have happened IF.... perhaps the small town boy would have had
a bit more talent....or IF the Dean had been a little less critical, the
world might have been spared the nightmare into which this boy was eventually
to plunge it.
2.World War 1
While living in Vienna Hitler he made
his living by drawing small pictures of famous landmarks which he sold
as post cards. But he was always poor. He was also a regular reader of
a small paper which claimed that the Araban race was superior to all and
was destined to rule the world. The paper blamed Communists and Jews for
all their problems and hitler agreed to those views. Hitler agree with
most of the points made in the publication. He continued to live a poor
live in Vienna and in 1913 decided to move to Munich. Still living in Vienna
and being Austrain by birth, Hitler showed more loyalty to the Geramny.
He thought that the Aryan race was destined to rule the world. Many believe
that he tried to escape the draft but it was never proven. His live in
Munich was not much better then before and he continued to be poor. Then
in 1914 World War I broke out and Hitler saw this as a great opportunity
to show his loyalty to the "fatherland" by volunteering for the Imperial
army. He did not want to fight in the Austrian Army. Hitler was a good
soldier. Many of political opponents claimed that he was a coward but records
clearly show that he was not. He received to awards of bravery but never
achieved a high Rank.
In 1918 Germany surrendered and Hitler
was very upset about the loss. He believed that it was the Jews and the
Communists who betrayed the "fatherland" and it was here that his disliking
of the Jews most likely began. Germany after the war was in chaos. With
no real Government to control the country, many groups tried to take control.
One day a big communist group staged a big riot but another group of ex-soldiers
including Hitler managed to hold them back.
3.The Nazi Party
Since there were not many chances for
employment Hitler stayed in the army. Hitler was assigned the job of going
go to various meetings of groups which sprang up like mushrooms and to
report on them. One day September 12, 1919 - a fateful day in history,
Hitler was sent to investigate a small group which called itself the "German
Workers Party". Hitler was not to happy about his assignment. He thought
it wouldn't be worth it to even go. At the group mainly talked about the
Countries problem and how the Jews, communists and others where threatening
the master race and offered their own solutions. Hitler was bored by the
meeting but when a man stood up and claimed that Bavaria should separate
from Germany, Hitler got up and argued that point. He argued that Germany
and germans must unite into one to survive. His natural ability to speak
imprest the leader of the group and at the end of the meeting he gave Hitler
a pamphlet and an initiation the next meeting. He wasn't interested in
attending but after reading the hand out he accepted. He later joined the
German Workers Party and was in charge of Propaganda. The party was small
at first but Hitler's great skill at deliberating speeches attracted more
and more listeners and it soon became a major party with many followers.
Eventually Adolf Hitler became it's leader and the rest as they say....is
history.
4.Hitler In Power
While spending time in prison for trying
to overthrow the government Adolf Hitler wrote his famous book "Mein Kampf",
in which he describes many problems and where he states that the Jews and
communists were responsible for those problems. He also decided on the
"Final Solution" to the "Jewish Question". It was his goal to eliminate
the Jewish race from the European continent. It is interesting to look
and see how a small time boy from Austria with no education, money or political
background could become within a few years the leader of big nation such
as Germany. Historians believe that Hitler saw a great opportunity to get
his views across to the German people who have lost all hope. Of course
people did not start to support him right away. After he came into power,
the Nazi party took control over every aspect of every day life. Hitler
ordered the creation of a special police force to make sure that all opponents
would be elimanted, the Gestapo. He also gave orders to set up a special
force which would be used to transport and take care of all political prisioners
and people thought to be inferior. The name of the force was the feared
SS. Mass propaganda was used to persuade the German people that the "Fuhrer"
would make the country strong and powerful again. They also used propaganda
against the Jews and other minority groups which were considered enemies.
Teachers had to belong to the Nazi party, and children were taught that
Jews very the source of all their problems. Since the country was in chaos
after the war, and was forced to pay billions in damages, The Germans saw
hope in Adolf Hitler. In the late 20's the depression hit which made the
situation even worse.
Hitler in his speeches blamed the Jews
and Communists for their misfortunes and many listed. Unemployment was
very high at that time standing at about 25%. Hitler also spoke out against
the unfairness of the Versailles treaty. Germany lost a lot of its territory.
The Empire was no more. He believed the pure Araban race is destined to
rule the world and wanted to build an Empire that would last a 1000 years.
He preached that all Germans must unite in order for this goal to succeed.
Hitler publicly stated his views on the
Jews. But the Jews of Germany didn't see Hitler as a great threat at first.
However when Hitler became chancellor and eventually took over totally
they changed their mind. The first thing he did was to take the Jews their
right to vote. Soon they were not allowed to marry with a pure german,
they could not hold positions such as teachers, doctors lawyers,..and so
on. Many Jews only then realized that he was serious and many fled Germany.
Why did so many Germans follow Hitler? When he took power the economy was
basically non existent. Many looked for answers and hope. Hitler was their
answer. He promised to rebuild the Glorious Germany of the past. First
he started to build up the Wehrmacht. Germany was not allowed to have more
than 100,000 men, but Hitler broke the treaty and gave orders to increase
that number. Factories started putting out weapons and people now had jobs.
To the Germans this was a very good sign. Mass rallies were held, where
Hitler continued to use his powers of speech on the German people.
5.The Road To War
At first the allies did nothing about
the fact that Hitler broke the Treaty. He gave speeches in which he indicated
that the German people needed living space. Later he Marched into the Reihnland,
and area which Germany lost. Next He moved into Austria, his home country
and annexed it without a shoot being fired into the Reich. Following Austria,
he wanted control of the Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia which was
mainly German speaking. He also achieved that goal. The allies didn't want
another war so they led Hitler do what he wanted to, but when he Attacked
Poland on September 1st, 1939 the allies no longer stood by and watched.
Britain and France declared war on Germany a few days after later, World
War II began.
6.The Dark Side
After the Wehrmacht conquered and occupied
a territory the SS quickly followed. They would round up Jews, Communists,
Gypsies, Homosexuals and others which were viewed as "Inferior" according
to Nazi racial theory and enemies of the German people and put on trains.
They were all sent to Concentration camps, which were set up to implement
the 'final solution'. Camps such as Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen Belsen
were all equipped with gas chambers to make the killing process quick and
efectfull. In those camps 6 million Jews and many others were killed by
the Nazis. Hitler's army seemed unstoppable but in the end, the allies
managed to win many decisive battles. Eventually on Aril 30th, 1945 Hitler
committed suicide in his bunker by shooting himself in the mouth. His body
was burned, but no ones knows what happened to the "Fuhrer's" ashes. On
May 7th, 1945 Germany surrendered unconditionally.
7.The Man
Hitler was one of the most, if not the
most cruel man to ever walk the face of the earth. His believe of the superiorority
of the "Aryan" race made him hate all others. He believed that the slaws
to the east should be made work for the German people. He thought of blacks
as being "Sub-human". And Most of all he hated the Jews. So much that in
early 1945, when equipment and manpower was badly needed on the front Hitler
insisited on man and equipment staying and continuing to tranport Jews
to the camps. In his Testament he left his money to his family. And message
to the Germany people "Above all I charge the leaders of the nation and
those under them to scrupulous observance of the laws of race and to merciless
opposition to the universal poisoner of all peoples, international Jewry."
The only people which would be spared where
the Scandinavians to the north, since they were closely related to the
German race. With Hitler's death the Nazi party quickly fated. But there
is still a lot of tension in todays Germany.
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