Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler

• 1889-1945

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Early Life

• 1889-Born in Braunau, Austria
• Son of an Austrian customs official domineering
  father
• 1905- Dropped out of school mother died in 1907
• 1907-1913- lived in Vienna(18-24)
• Tried to get into the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts
  but turned down
• Did odd jobs in Vienna
• Began to blame Jews for his failures
• Developed anti- Semitic philosophy
• Moved to Munich, Germany

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WW I

• 1914- enlisted in the German military
• Turning point of Hitlers life
• Gains purpose and security
• 1914-1918- fights on the Western Front rose to
  the rank of corporal
• 1918- gassed before the end of the War

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Post-War Germany

• 1919- Stab in the Back Legend
• Germany in bad shape economically
• Germans upset with the Treaty of Versailles
• 1919-Hitler in Munich joins the National
  Socialist German Workers Party(Nazi)
• Becomes the spokesman and one of the leaders of
  the Nazi Party

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Nazi Party

• Attacked the Jews and the Treaty of Versailles
• 1923- Hitler led a revolution in Munich to take
  over the government- it failed inspired by
  Mussolinis March on Rome
• 1923- Hitler arrested and imprisoned dictated
  Mein Kampf to fellow prisoner and Nazi Rudolf Hess

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The Main ideas of Mein Kampf

• Strengthen Germany to the good old days of the
  1st Reich and the 2nd Reich
• Take back conquered territories
• Build up the military
• Defeat Communism
• Develop a racial policy

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Reorganization of the Nazi Party

• Organized the Storm Troopers(S.A.)- the Brown
  Shirts
• Nazi Party still small during the 1920s but
  grows with the outbreak of the Great Depression
  in 1929
• Sept., 1930 elections- increased their Reichstag
  members from 12-107
• Spring, 1932- Hitler is defeated by Hindenburg
  for the presidency of Germany
• Nazi Party have 230 seats in the Reichstag
• Jan.,1933- Hitler is appointed chancellor of
  Germany

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Totalitarian Germany

• Democratic Germany-1920s
• Fascist Totalitarian Germany- 1930s
• Nazi control of all areas of German life from the
  cradle to the grave
• SA, SS, and Gestapo enforce Nazi ideology
• Public Work Projects established to help the
  economy
• Censorship and the Nazification of the Churches
• Persecution of the Jews and other enemies of the
  state

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