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=**__Adolf Hitler__**=

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn. Alois Hitler was his father, though a brutal father of the sort, he insulted the dreaminess of his son. He wasn't that good of a student, and Hitler dropped out of secondary school without any graduation certificates. He wanted to be an artist, but his very ininspired works of drawings and watercolor got him declined twice to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Despite his failed attempts, Hitler moved to Vienna hoping to still make it as an artist once his mother died. He did poke his head into the artistic world by painting advertisments and making postcards; though he started to fall into an aimless depression, fueled by his growing racial hatred on mostly Jews. Through these hated thoughts, he began to see Jews as a theat to the German population.

At the end of World War I in 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was made and signed. This treaty, in not so many words blamed Germany for almost everything in WWI, and said that it was their fault and they must take responsibility for their actions. Germany was required to compensate for nearly all the damage done, and in this, Germany didn't have enough money to do it all. Sending Germany into a depression. This, was a key part that played into the start of World War II, or at least Nazi Germany as a start. With Germany's bad economy, the people were open to the idea of change, therefor when Hitler started to climb into power, the civilians hoped he would get them out of these bad times.

Hitler's rise to power was actually quite simple. Germany wasn't in the greatest shape right after WWI, and see this as an advantage he quickly took over the German Worker's Party and successfully changed it into the Nazi Party. In July 1921, he was elected president of the Nazi party. Hitler was always very bold with announcing who he disliked and who he didn't. In November 1923, he led the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, which was a wild attempt to get control of Bavarian government. This attack led him to be imprisoned; where he wrote //Mein Kampf//. In his book, translated to "My Struggle," he wrote about his dislike of Communists and Jews, and how he wanted to see Germany and be a dominant power, and acquire Lebensraum. He was released from prison after nine months, when he then began to start strengthening his party. His party really grew when the depression hit in 1929. Hitler's name was being spread around now, and he did run for German president, though he did lose.

Despite the fact that Hitler lost the presidential election in 1932, the July election gained the Nazis 230 Reichstag seats, and 37% of the vote. Eventually Hindenburg appointed Hitler the chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. Slowly but surely, Hitler started to build himself up as a dictator. Slowly, he began to outlaw certain things. For example, he abolished the Communist party and imprisoned their leaders. Then shortly after, he began, subtly at first but then more directly, discriminating against the Jews. Thus, his dictatorship reigned on.

There are many other factors that all tie in with Hitler's reign over Germany. One is the euthanasia program, which was basically his way of killing off a majority of Jews and others he didn't like. The most common way he used was the gas chambers, where people would inhale toxic gasses and die from that. There was blitzkrieg, which was the German way of fighting during World War II. Blitzkrieg was when the Germans would fly in on planes first, and bomb their target, and then send tanks in. The SS, or //Schutzstaffel,// was the military of the Third Reich. It, along the Gestapo, organized the concentration camps where Jews and others were deported for extermination. The gestapo itself was a secret Nazi police organization. Josef Goebbels was the master propagandist. He was one of the men recruited so Hitler knew that he would be on the right track to dictatorship. 
 * Citations:**

Axelrod, Alan, and Charles Phillips. "Hitler, Adolf." //Dictators and Tyrants: Absolute Rulers and Would-Be Rulers in World History.// New York: Facts On File, Inc., 1995.//American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE52&iPin=lbio0087&SingleRecord=True (accessed September 17, 2011).

Germany and the Allied powers. "World War I Armistice." From //Treaties and Other Agreements of the United States of America, 1776-1949//. Compiled by Charles I. Bevans. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1968-76. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE52&iPin=E09090&SingleRecord=True (accessed September 18, 2011). (Primary) These were the terms of armistice with Germany after World War I. They were written by the allied countries.

Various. "Treaty of Versailles." //Treaties Conventions, International Acts, Protocols and Agreements, 1910-23,// Vol. III, p. 3331. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp? ItemID=WE52&iPin=E09270&SingleRecord=True (accessed September 17, 2011). (Primary) The Treaty of Versailles were the agreements set upon after World War I. This basically said that the entire war was Germany's fault, and this listed the things that Germany had to do to make up for it.