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Hitler's early life: Hitler was born in the austrian town of Braunau am Inn, but, was mostly raised in Linz. He had a step-father, Alois and his mother. He did poorly in school, so he dropped out without his graduation degree. After dropping out, he decided to be an artist but the college of his choice failed his artwork twice. When he moved to Vienna to eke out an existence, he fell into a depression that was directed only by racial hatred focused mostly on the Jews. He came to believe that they were a threat to the "Aryan" race Then he wanted to get into the army but was declared unfit. With the outbreak of WWWI, he enlisted for the army and quickly rose up the ranks. He had found a home in the army with his regiment. After the war, he became an army political agent and joined the German Worker's Party in Munich.

End of WWI and the treaty of Versailles: The end of WWI had a significant toll on human life and a shortage of jobs with the war industry declining. President Wilson went to Versailles, France to negotiate a peace treaty with the other states. All of the allied states agreed to strip Germany of all its colonies and made Germany sign a guilt clause. To make it even worse the allied states wanted reparations for the war and it also stripped them of the right to arm themselves. Also Germany was facing an inflation which made all the money worthless. Their government was unstable and people were desperate for someone to come and relieve it. Then comes Hitler who promised a better future without hunger. Historians believe that the treaty of Versailles made everything worse because Germany was already suffering after the war and now they were demanded to pay the expensive costs to every nation.

Rise of Hitler and the Nazis: When the treaty of Versailles was made it was a crisis and Germany was also rocked by the failed communist revolution. Hitler siezed the opportunity of unrest and was responsible in transforming the German Worker's Party into the Nazionalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or Nazi. He formed an alliance with Ernst Roehm, an army staff officer, was quickly made the president of the party. Hitler became a streetcorner orator and began, loudly, assaulting Germany's enemies, mostly jews, communists and nations that had humiliated Germany. On November 8-9, 1923, he led a revolt to try and seize the Bavarian government. It was quickly supressed and Hitler was arrested, tried, and convicted of treason, he was to serve five years.

How Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and then dictator: After nine months he was released from prison, he set to work making his party stronger. After picking all sorts of terrible people, Hitler ran for President of the German republic in 1932 ,and lost to Paul von Hindenberg. In July, the nazi party gained 230 goverment seats which made up 37% of the votes. That made them the largest party represented and Paul was compelled to make Hitler the Reich chancellor on January 30, 1933. Hitler now worked hard at consolidating his power and building himself into dictatorship. Ater a fire destroyed the Reichstag, he found a pretext fo legally abolishing the Communist Party and imprioning its leaders. March 23, 1933, he made the Enabling Act ,which granted him four years of dictatorial powers. He then began to systematically dimantle all german parties, except the nazies, and purged the jews from all government institutions and brought all government offices under nazi rule. HE then murdered most of the nazis who;s radicalism posed a threat. He then assumed the fuctions of a president and adopted the title //Führer, S//upreme Leader, of the Third Reich.

Blitzkrieg: It was called "lightning war" because it used rapid attack and left its targets ill prepared. The airplanes would fly in and bomb importent buildings, government, transport, and other, then came the tanks and then the infantry.

The SS: Hitler replaced the regular police with Schutzstaffel or the SS. They helped with deporting the undesirables.

The Gestapo: were a secret police organization that helped the SS. They captured the jews and helped with raiding their shops.

Josef Goebbels: He was in charge of the propaganda. He helped with the Nuremberg Racial Laws, which deprived jews of citizenship.

The Führer: Means Supreme Leader, which Hitler had named himself. He assumed the role of president and took over.

Primary Documents: "But the dreams of empire of the Japanese and Fascist leaders were modest in comparison with the gargantuan aspirations of Hitler and his Nazis. Even before they came to power in 1933, their plans for that conquest had been drawn. Those plans provided for ultimate domination, not of any one section of the world, but of the whole earth and all the oceans on it." Franklin D. Roosevelt. Union state adress on January 6, 1942. Hitler's facist dream includes dominating the whole world. Unlike the other facist leaders they were modest compared to Hitler.

"I didn't like that part of what I saw. I didn't like to see men and women fall victims to the catchwords of prejudice and the slogans of hate, even as the poor people of Germany were victimized by the catchwords and slogans of Hitler" Henry A. Wallace. Campaign speech on September 10, 1948 He doesn't like to see people fall prey to the words of hate disguised as pretty words. Even as the poor people of Germany fall prey to Hitler.

Works citied: 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. [] (accessed September 17, 2011).

Curry, George Michael. "blitzkrieg." In Jeffries, John W., and Gary B. Nash, eds. //Encyclopedia of American History: The Great Depression and World War II, 1929 to 1945//, Revised Edition (Volume VIII). New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2010. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. [] (accessed September 17, 2011).