ADOLF HITLER

The Brutalist Dictator EverADOLF HITLER

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 30 April 1945) was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Fhrer ("leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As dictator of Nazi Germany, he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and was a central figure of the Holocaust. Born into a German-speaking Austrian family and raised near Linz, Hitler moved to Germany in 1913 and was decorated during his service in the German Army in World War I. He joined the precursor of the NSDAP, the German Workers' Party in 1919 and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup in Munich

to seize power. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he dictated the first volume of his autobiography and political manifesto Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, anti-Semitism, and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. Hitler frequently denounced international capitalism and communism as being part of a Jewish conspiracy

Adolf Hitlers autobiography : Mein Kampf My Struggles

EARLY LIFE

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary (in present-day Austria),close to the border with the German Empire. He was one of six children born to Alois Hitler and Klara Plzl (18601907). Three of Hitlers siblings Gustav, Ida, and Ottodied in infancy. When Hitler was three, the family moved to Passau, Germany. There he acquired the distinctive lower Bavarian dialect, rather than Austrian German, which marked his speech throughout his life. The family returned to Austria and settled in Leonding in 1894, and in June 1895 Alois retired to Hafeld, near Lambach, where he farmed and kept bees. Hitler attended Volksschule (a state-owned school) in nearby Fischlham.

Hitlers Mother - Klara Plzl

Hitlers Father Alois Hitler

ENTRY IN THE ARMY & IN THE POLITICS

Adolf Hitler, the Head Chancellor of Germany

At the outbreak of World War I, Hitler was living in Munich and as an Austrian citizen volunteered to serve in the Bavarian Army. According to a subsequent report by the Bavarian authorities in 1924, Hitler almost certainly served in the Bavarian Army by error. Posted to the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16 (1st Company of the List Regiment), he served as a dispatch runner on the Western Front in France and Belgium, spending nearly half his time at the regimental headquarters in Fournes-en-Weppes, well behind the front lines

On 21 March 1933, the new Reichstag was constituted with an opening ceremony at the Garrison Church in Potsdam. This "Day of Potsdam" was held to demonstrate unity between the Nazi movement and the old Prussian elite and military. Hitler appeared in a morning coat and humbly greeted Hindenburg. To achieve full political control despite not having an absolute majority in parliament, Hitler's government brought the Ermchtigungsgesetz (Enabling Act) to a vote in the newly elected Reichstag which gave Hitler's cabinet the power to enact laws without the consent of the Reichstag for four years. These laws could (with

certain exceptions) deviate from the constitution. The absence of an effective government prompted Alfred Hugenberg, to write a letter to Hindenburg. Hindenburg reluctantly agreed to appoint Hitler as chancellor after two further parliamentary electionsin July and November 1932had not resulted in the formation of a majority government. Hitler headed a short-lived coalition government formed by the NSDAP and Hugenberg's party, the German National People's Party (DNVP). On 30 January 1933, the new cabinet was sworn in during a brief ceremony in Hindenburg's office. The NSDAP gained three posts: Hitler was named chancellor, Wilhelm Frick Minister of the Interior, and Hermann Gring Minister of the Interior for Prussia. Hitler had insisted on the ministerial positions as a way to gain control over the police in much of Germany.

INAZI IDEOLOGY

Nazism or National Socialism is an ideology that received its practical political form in the regime that governed Germany from 1933-1945. Nazism was specifically characterized by:- Holocaust :- The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.Holocaustis a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior" were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.

Lebensraum:-The main reason for the Nazi expansion into its neighboring western countries was built upon the principle of lebensraum. Even though it translates literally to mean only living space, lebensraum carried with it the desire for the Nazis to expand into other countries to provide living space for the growing German race. During this time, the inferior races, such as the Jews and Gypsies, who occupied the new Nazi territories, were stripped of their possessions, jobs, and resettled in ghettos or concentration camps. This helped break the peoples will, asserted the strong power of the Nazis, and gave direct benefits to the Nazi regime. In a meeting with German military leaders on 3 February 1933, Hitler spoke of "conquest for Lebensraum in the East and its ruthless Germanisation" as his ultimate foreign policy objectives.

WORLD WAR II : DECLINE OF NAZI

After the successful Allied invasions of western France, Germany gathered reserve forces and launched a massive counter-offensive in the Ardennes, which collapsed by January. At the same time, Soviet forces were closing in from the east, invading Poland and East Prussia. By March, Western Allied forces were crossing the Rhine River, capturing hundreds of thousands of troops from Germany's Army Group B. The Red Army had meanwhile entered Austria, and both fronts quickly approached Berlin. Strategic bombing campaigns by Allied aircraft were pounding German territory, sometimes destroying entire cities in a night. In the first several months of 1945, Germany put up a fierce defense, but rapidly lost territory, ran out of supplies, and exhausted its options. In April, Allied forces pushed through the German defensive line in Italy. East met West on the River Elbe on April 25, 1945, when Soviet and American troops met near Torgau, Germany. Then came the end of the Third Reich, as the Soviets took Berlin, Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, and Germany surrendered unconditionally on all fronts on May 8 (May

7 on the Western Front). Hitler committed suicide with his wife, Eva Braun in their Berlin house. Eva Anna Paula Hitler was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less than 40 hours, his wife. The bodies of Hitler and Eva were cremated in the chancellery garden by the bunker survivors (as per Der Fuhrers orders) and reportedly later recovered in part by Russian troops. A German court finally officially declared Hitler dead, but not until 1956

Eva Braun, Hitlers wife

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