1#The Rise

The first time they heard him speak, Germany was awed into silence. The man had a gift that was certain. Oratory skill like that was rare to

find. And Germany knew that the crowd around him was just as spellbound by those fluid,

persuasive words.

The second time Germany heard him speak, they were shocked—by his fervor, his strength, his patriotism. He was bolder now, stronger. He

had a greater following. He had polished his gift. And as he spoke—shouted, really—the

crowd could not help but listen.

The third time Germany heard him speak, they were terrified. The man’s words were hateful, sharp and bitter. He wove them as if they were

thread, slowly creating a net with which to ensnare his listeners. His face, slick with sweat,

was alight with fury and victory. And his eyes…his eyes were bright with madness. Though he did not like to admit it to himself, deep down, Germany knew he was afraid. And the crowd

listened, frozen, immobile and thoroughly caught.

The man with the Swastika, Adolf Hitler was here.

Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in Germany in September 1919 when Hitler joined the political

party known as the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (abbreviated as DAP – German Workers' Party);

the name was changed in 1920 to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei –

NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party). The

party believed in the idea of extreme nationalism, Pan-Germanism and was against the post-war

democratic government of Germany.

13 March, 1932; Hitler had come second in the general elections. This was a blow both to Hitler

as well as his party, but Hitler didn’t stop. He

started “campaigning”, as it was called, against the rival party, Kommunistische Partei

Deutschland (KPD). Blood was spilled on the streets, people were openly attacked, and the

whole nation was turned into a war zone.

By November of 1932, the violence of the Nazi party was beginning to make the German

population rethink their position, and the party’s popularity was beginning to fall. President von Hindenburg now saw the KPD as the greatest

threat and, to fight this threat, decided to appoint Hitler as Chancellor, as well as creating a very

leftist cabinet. The general mood about this was “Oh, Hitler won’t be a problem. We’ll control

him.”

Hitler knew he was on the right track. He was more blunt and confident now. When asked about his newly gained power by a British

reporter, he replied, “ At the risk of appearing to talk nonsense I tell you that the National Socialist movement will go on for 1,000

years! ... Don't forget how people laughed at me 15 years ago when I declared that one day I

would govern Germany. They laugh now, just as foolishly, when I declare that I shall remain in

power!”

2#More than

just “Control”

In February 1933, news came that The German Reichstag was ignited to ashes. Emergency was

imposed upon the nation; Germany was in a state of shock and fear. The growing rumor was that the hand of the Nazis was involved in this catastrophe. Adolf Hitler, The Chancellor of Germany, addressed the public and openly

pointed the finger at KPD.

March same year; The Enabling Act is passed giving all powers of legislation to Hitler’s

cabinet for next 4 years, making him the virtual dictator. From that day, Hitler’s regime started full fledged. The communist party was banned. Socialists, trade unions and strikes were banned.

He withdrew from the League of the Nations,

increased the German army size manifold and ignored the arms restrictions imposed by the

Treaty of Versailles.

By June 1934, Hitler had crushed all his rival parties and became an autonomist. After the

death of President Hindenburg, Hitler became “Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor” and abolished the title of President. Hitler re-armed Germany

with the aim of undoing the Treaty of Versailles and uniting all the German peoples.

Simultaneously in Hitler’s motherland Austria, the Austrian Nazi Party, a party strongly supportive of idea of Nazism, had gained

control over the country. The Austrian Chancellor, leader of the Austrian Nazi Party, invited German army to occupy Austria and

proclaim a union with Germany.

September 29, 1938; at a meeting in Berlin, Prime Ministers of Britain, France and Italy met Adolf Hitler and signed The Munich Agreement

which dictated to peacefully give away Sudetenland to German territory on the

backdrop of Hitler’s demands to protect the German speaking majority of Sudetenland.

Later, in March 1939 Hitler ignored the Munich Agreement and invaded Czechoslovakia.

This marked the ruthless and violent uprising of The German Empire commanded by The

Ultimate Dictator.

3#השואה

(The Holocaust)

The oppression of the Jews started because of Hitler’s hatred towards the community. He

considered them to be an inferior non-Aryan class of people who didn’t have the right to live. He had always been straightforward about his

plans for the Jews. His dream of a racially "pure" empire would tolerate no Jews.

The first blow to the Jews came as their disablement to own lands. Consequently, they

were banned from various unions and were deprived of health insurance. Further, Nazi party forcefully aborted Jewish babies in order to stop

the spread of the “scum” population. Jewish pupils were expelled from all non-Jewish

German schools.

The Nazis set up concentration camps after 1933 to detain without legal procedure Jews,

Communists, Gypsies, homosexuals, and others. During World War II extermination, or death, camps were established for the sole purpose of killing men, women, and children. In the most notorious camps, more than 6 million people,

mostly Jews and Poles, were killed in gas

chambers. Millions of others were also interned during the war, and a large proportion died of gross mistreatment, malnutrition, and disease.

The Holocaust represents 11 million lives that abruptly ended the extermination of people

not for who they were but for what they were.

4#Poland Polished

Poland was attacked by Germany on September 1st 1939. The German attack was code-named Operation White. The attack on Poland started

at 04.45 hours when blitzkrieg tore through the Polish military and by the end of the month

Poland had surrendered to the Germans and the country was occupied.

On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule

Poland.World War II had begun…

Why did Hitler attack Poland? The reason Hitler gave was that the Poles were persecuting those

Germans who lived in Poland.The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war--what would

become the "blitzkrieg" strategy. This was characterized by extensive bombing early on to

destroy the enemy's air capacity, railroads, communication lines, and munitions dumps,

followed by a massive land invasion with overwhelming numbers of troops, tanks, and

artillery. Once the German forces had ploughed their way through, devastating a swath of

territory, infantry moved in, destroying any remaining resistance.

Once Hitler had a base of operations within the target country, he

immediately began setting up "security" forces to annihilate all enemies of his

Nazi ideology, whether racial, religious, or political. Concentration camps for

slave laborers and the extermination of civilians went hand in hand with

German rule of a conquered nation.The Polish army made several severe strategic

miscalculations; although one million in strength, the Polish forces were severely under-

equipped and attempted to take the Germans head-on with horsed cavaliers in a forward

concentration, rather than falling back to more natural defensive positions. The outmoded

thinking of the Polish commanders coupled with the antiquated state of its military was simply no

match for the overwhelming and modern mechanized German forces. And, of course, any

hope the Poles might have had of a Soviet counter-response was dashed with the signing of

the Ribbentrop-Molotov Non-aggression Pact (The Nazi-Soviet Pact) between Germany and

Russia.

Great Britain responded with bombing raids over Germany three days later, but that didn’t stop Him, for His reign had

merely just begun. Likewise, the Ultimate Dictator spread his blanket of

control over Danzig, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland,

Monaco, Yugoslavia and Greece and Lithuania.

5#Et tu, Adolf?

Adolf Hitler, the words were spoken on the streets only in reverend tones or

terrified whispers. He looked up to no one. There was one, however, who had risen to the heights of Adolf, and Stalin

was his name.

Stalin’s rise in Russia had paralleled that of Hitler’s. He had become the

leader of the Soviet Union, the strongest force known to the “prey” of the

Second World War. The Soviet Union hadn’t earned the name ‘The Red

Army’ merely because its logo was a red hammer and sickle; it was because when The Soviet Union attacked, rivers

ran red.

In the fall of 1939, Stalin could not help but to be concerned, for Hitler was known to have

attacked countries that showed even the slightest potential to rise to power. For this purpose only,

Stalin decided to form a pact of peace with Germany. While Hitler was opposed to

Communism and had little regard for Eastern Europeans, he appreciated that Stalin

represented a formidable force and the two signed a non-aggression pact, The

Ribbentrop-Molotov, in 1939.

With peace established between the two unstoppable forces, the rest of the countries saw a dark age coming.

With Japan bombed by the Americans and India being under the British rule,

the Nazis and the Soviets were enjoying sky high power privileges.

Not many months following the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact, Hitler found himself trotting the streets of Russia

with a few of his men. He had a reason

to be there. The group waited vigilantly in a bar that Stalin frequented. The plan was simple; wait for Stalin, isolate him,

assassinate.

To break the silence of the wait, Stalin showed at the bar with a friend of his.Without hesitation, Hitler announced, “Now!” Adolf’s men grabbed Stalin,

whose friend, Trotsky, fled.

Hitler spat, “This world’s too small for the both of us, for neither can live while the other survives.” With that said, he

ended Stalin by putting a bullet through his head.

6#Epilogue

When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it. And I had love, but I did not feel it. Many decades would pass

before I understood the meaning of all three. And now, the twilight of my life,

this understanding has passed into contentment. Love, liberty, and time: once so disposable, are the fuels that

drive me forward. And love, most especially, Eva Braun, for you, our

children, our brothers and sisters and for the vast and wonderful world that gave us life, and keeps us guessing.

~Forever yours, Adolf Hitler.

On April 30, 1945, Adolf committed suicide with his wife, Eva Braun.