Who was Adolf Hitler?Adolf Hitler was the leader of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Under his reign, over eleven million people perished--brutally. Most were Jews, Polish, and other cultures not German. Before his reign, Hitler joined the NAZI organization wanting to turn Germany back to its once former glory. After climbing his way to the leader of the NAZI party, Hitler and the rest of the party performed a coup--a government overthrow--in order to restore Germany's balance in November of 1923. After the failed coup, Hitler was sent to jail for a "political crime". During his imprisonment, Hitler wrote the notorious Mein Kampf, or My Struggle. The book entails what the future of Germany will look like as well as the "perfect race" or Aryan Supremacy--a race completely composed of men and women all of whom bare blue eyes and blond hair. In Germany, any person who was considered Aryan was put at high reguard and a noble. After being released from prison nine months later, Hitler began working once more at fixing Germany. By 1930, Hitler had a large influence in the government of Germany. He influenced law-making as well as influencing the leader of Germany, Paul Von Hindenburg. In 1933, the president of Germany dies of lung cancer. As Hitler is named chancellor, he wastes no time to set his plan into action. He creates the Hitler Youth, an alternative learning style for young Germans and is mandatory to attend. He ends all clubs and institutions large enough to surpass the NAZI party, growing now in the millions. He then began removing rights for Jews. One of the first laws taken away from Jews was the right to marry. No Jew could marry someone that was not Jewish. Then Jews were not allowed in certain restaurants, markets, stores, and streets. Many Jews bartered with other Jews or Germans willing to help. Then Hitler created the ghettos. His intention was to keep his German people safe from the hold of the "evil" Jews. The jews were crammed into a small section of the town. Many Jews went homeless and starved due to the lack of food and space. Then were the death camps. Hitler, not wanting his men getting bored of killing Jews one-by-one, installed a gas chamber which acted as a large oven to kill Jews by the mass. Both the Germans and the Jews feared for their lives in the wake of the second world war.
Hitler killed himself in 1945 by the loss of the war by the Russian and the United States military. |
Early Life |
Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889 in Austria to Alois Hitler (father) and Klara Polzl (mother). He was the fourth born out of six. At an early age Hitler and his family moved from Austria-Hungary to Germany where he would soon find interest in Nationalism. By 1900, after the death of Hitler's close brother, he became introverted and frequently fought and argued with his father about his love of art than business. Former teachers of Hitler remember him as demanding and intelligent.
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Impact |
After the end of the Second World War, many changes had to made. The isolation of the United States would no longer work as the death toll and destruction was unprecedented and extensive. Yet, after studying the mind of Hitler and the manipulation of a whole country, we can can identify possible forms of Hitler's plans such as persecution or denying rights in the way of making the act seem necessary. The act of sanctifying the death and persecution of a whole people to this extent never seemed possible in the new world, yet after World War 2, we can now see that almost anything can be possible--good or bad.
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