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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