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__**Hitler's War**__ __**Hitler's Early Life**__ Adolf was the only son of a minor Austrian customs officer and his third wife. Originally named Schicklgruber, Hitler's father changed his name later in his life. At the age 14, his father died and Hitler moved to Vienna with his mother. There he studied to become an architect, but made a living by assistanting a house‐painter and sold indifferent sketches. In 1912, he moved to Munich where he later settled. There, he first absorbed his anti-Semitic and pan-Germanic views. He served in the Bavarian reserve regiment and was a dispatch rider through the trenches. He reached a rank of //Gefreiter,//or lance corporal, after being wounded in 1916 at the Battle of Somme and gassed in 1918. Here, he was covinced that Germany was betrayed by Jewish and Marxist influences. Because of this, he returned from war bitter at Germany's defeat. He attended and conducted courses designed for ex-soldiers to keep them away from Bolshevism and was influenced by Gottfried Feder, the intellectual founder of the Nazi movement.


 * __Problems from WWI__**

Germany had surrendered to the Allied and Associated Powers on November 18, 1918. They signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, which had put an end to World War I. The treaty was an agreement between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany. Germany had surrendered most of the territory it had gained to neighboring countries. "The Guilt War Clause" that blamed Germany for causing all the international conflicts. Germany had to decrease their army to 10,000, they had to get rid of their navy, and had to pay for all damages from the war. This price was so large that Germany went into a depression after the war. Everyone believed that this treaty would keep another world war from breaking out, but the faults in the treaty started World War II.


 * __Rise of Hitler and Nazis__**

Because of the treaty, Germany could not get themselves out of depression. Hitler became a member of the German Workers' Party after World War I. The National Socialist German Workers' Party became the Nazi party in August 1920. He later became leader of the Nazi Party after removing Anton Drexler in 1921. The party adopted Hitler's nationalist and anti-Marxist views. Hitler believed the Weimar Republic was going to collapse. On November 1923, he attempted to make Ludendorff dictator by launching an abortive coup in Munich. After the coup failed, Hitler was tried for treason. He was imprisoned for five years and wrote his book, //Mein Kampf//. After being released nine months later, Hitler put all of his energy into strengthening the party.


 * __Hitler Becomes Leader__**

In 1932, Hitler ran again Hidenburg in the presidential election. He was beaten in the second ballot, but he had polled about 13 million votes and was a political power. Chancellor Heinrich Brüning and his regime paved the way to dictatorship after feeling compelled to govern by decree.In June 1932, he resigned as chancellor and von Papen succeeded him. Von Papen had diminished the Reichstag and reheld elections after the Nazi party had 230 seats and Hitler had become head of the biggest single party. Hitler became chancellor in January 1933. Later, Germany had forged an alliance with Italy in 1936 and invaded Poland. This became a catalyst for World War II. Hitler became dictator and remained in his position from 1933-1945.


 * __Additional Points__**

The **SS** was Hitler's personal bodyguards. They were encharge of camps and carried out horrible deeds. The **Guestapo** were encharge of consentration camps. They were also called the secret state police.
 * Blitzkreig** means lightning war. This tactic was used by Germans to invade their neighboring countries quickly so none could have a defense ready quick enough.
 * Propaganda** was one of Hitler's strongest attributes. He knew how to "speak" to people and would use that against them.
 * Anti-Semetism** was directed strictly towards Jews. Hitler burned this idea into the minds of Germans.


 * __Primary Sources and Captions__**

"We must learn once more to feel as a nation and act as a nation if we want to stand up before the world." These words were said by Hitler addressing the German nation to stand together as one empire if they hope to conquer the world. This was mainly addressed toward Hitler youth.


 * __Database Sources Cited__**

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