Hitlers rise to power
Name: Adolf Hitler
Birth: April 20, 1889
Death: April 30, 1945
Adolf Hitler became Germany's chancellor in 1933, combining it with the title of president to become Führer in 1934. Appointed by then President Hindenburg, Hitler became chancellor due to a political agreement between the two German politicians. During his rise to power, Hitler promised to lead Germany to its former glory by healing the nation's economic problems and revising the Treaty of Versailles.
Hitler was a Austrian-born German politician and long-time leader of the Nazi party from 1921 to 1945. After being rejected from art school and after being deemed unfit for service in the Austrian military, he enlisted in the German army during WWI. However, after the war, he was angered by the Treaty of Versailles, as he believed it was too harsh a punishment for Germany. He joined the Germans Workers Party in 1919, which promoted anti-Semitism and expressed dissatisfaction of the outcome of the war. This event will forever change the world.
Birth: April 20, 1889
Death: April 30, 1945
Adolf Hitler became Germany's chancellor in 1933, combining it with the title of president to become Führer in 1934. Appointed by then President Hindenburg, Hitler became chancellor due to a political agreement between the two German politicians. During his rise to power, Hitler promised to lead Germany to its former glory by healing the nation's economic problems and revising the Treaty of Versailles.
Hitler was a Austrian-born German politician and long-time leader of the Nazi party from 1921 to 1945. After being rejected from art school and after being deemed unfit for service in the Austrian military, he enlisted in the German army during WWI. However, after the war, he was angered by the Treaty of Versailles, as he believed it was too harsh a punishment for Germany. He joined the Germans Workers Party in 1919, which promoted anti-Semitism and expressed dissatisfaction of the outcome of the war. This event will forever change the world.
On November 8th 1923, Hitler and his Nazi party tried to take over the German government in Munich in a coup that is now known as the Beer Hall Putsch. However, the uprising proved unsuccessful and Hitler was sentenced for five years in jail. While in prison, he spent his time writing his autobiography Mein Kampf (my struggle). It described his anti-Semitic vision, his political ideology, as well as vision for a stronger German state. By 1939, 5,200,000 copies of Mein Kampf were printed and shaped the views of many Germans.
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Hitler was a charismatic orator who attracted many Germans desperate for change. He promised the German people a better life and to return Germany to its former glory. This appealed to many Germans who felt betrayed by their leaders in the Treaty of Versailles. The Nazi party won a plurality in the election of 1932 and came to power in 1933. In his speeches, he blamed Jews and communists for Germany's loss in WW1 and for most of the the country problems. Hitler further developed the idea that the Jewish people were an evil race, hell-bent on world domination.
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Many have speculated as to why Hitler hated the Jews. One potential reason was that he was rejected twice from art school, and that he believed Jews rejected him. Another speculation is that a Jewish doctor named Euduard Blarch unsuccessfully treated his mother Klara. Finally, he believed the Jews were behind Germany's defeat in WW1 because in 1918, some Jews joined in a revolution against the monarchy. However, historians point out that his years in Vienna strongly influenced him. There were many Jews living there and the social climate was openly anti-Semitic. There are of course many other countless reasons where Hitler's hatred from the Jews stemmed from and these were just the few. |