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__**Adolf Hitler's Rise into Nazi Germany**__

The beginning years of Adolf Hitler's life were filled with rejection and failure as he struggle with a cold hearted father and career issues as a artist. It all started when he was born, April 20th, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria. Although, he was raised most of his childhood in Linz with his brutally judgmental father, Aloise Hitler. Hitler was not a very good student dropping from secondary school without a graduation certificate in 1905. In comparison, he failed gaining access to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with his poorly inspired drawings and artwork. Soon after, his mother died and he went to make living in Vienna, however he slowly drifted into a depression and then faded from existence painting advertisements and postcards. Six years after 1907, he left for Munich to join the Austrian army, although during the February 1914 examinations he was declared unfit and rejected from joining the army. Later on with the beginning of World War I, he enthusiastically joined the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment. He was decorated 4 times, as a runner in the frontline and received the Iron Cross 1st Class on August 4th, 1918. After being injured in war, Hitler left the battlegrounds to join the German Workers Party helping with the propaganda section.

As World War I came to a close and countries began to settle down and return to their normal lives, the Treaty of Versailles was created. On June 28th, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in Versailles, France and scheduled to take effect in January, 1920. The Treaty of Versailles founded the League of Nations, a group of leaders from different countries that come together to solve issues dealing with international conflict, and the second part involved Germany and war reparations. The Treaty of Versailles didn't solve much though because all it did to Germany was take away all land acquired in the war, 33 billion dollars in reparations were to be payed, and shrink their army to 100,000, destroy their air force and naval powers, and demilitarize most of the western part of Germany. The Treaty had to be a direct cause of World War II because when a country is in debt and is politically weak from all the destruction after the war. Then tiny government parties would form seeking to grow bigger and soon take over Germany and this is what Hitler and the Nazis did till they were Germanys new fascist government. Once meeting this huge accomplishment they will build their army up and soon begin taking over nations all over Europe causing World War II.

Once Hitler joined the German Worker's Party propaganda section, after the war in April 1920, he was enthusiastic to transforming it into his Nazi party. By August 1920, the German Worker's Party became known as the Nazionalsozialistische Duetsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly abbreviated to NSDAP or Nazi party. In July 1921, he easily became president of the Nazi party and formed an alliance with army officer Ernest Roehm. On November 8-9 1923, Hitler and his party led a the Munich Beer Putsch and was arrested with a five year sentence that was shortened to a nine month sentence. While in prison, at Landesburg, Hitler wrote his Mein Kempf book where he outlined his goals for the Nazi party and the opposition of inferior races, such as Jews. Hitler was released from jail serving his nine months and was focused on strengthening his party by recruiting the people that would lead his party into war. In 1929, the depression arrived into Germany, and Hitler formed an alliance with the Nationalist party lead by Alfred Hudenburg, an industrialist. This alliance increased their Reichstag seats from 12 to 107, and became the second largest party in Germany.

Hitler's ran for Chancellor of the Germany Republic in 1932, however, he narrowly lost the election with 37 percent of the vote to Paul von Hindenberg. But the elections in July brought the Nazi party to 230 Reichstag seats, making it the largest party in Germany. Paul von Hindenberg was amazed to see how the party had become so big so he gave Chancellor of Germany to Hitler on January 30, 1932. On August 27, 1933, a fire destroyed the Reichstag and so Hitler destroyed the communist party and held the leaders in prison. Things began to fall into place and on March 23, 1933, he passed the Enabling Act, which granted him four year of dictatorship. At this point he began to take apart the German parties, removing Jews from all political positions and putting all government offices under the parties direct control. He then made himself be known as the Fuhrer or supreme leader of the Third Reich.

__**Additional Points**__


 * Anti-Semitism** was brought into the world by the Europeans and is the direct hatred against Jews or a specific race. Hitler's Nazi party destroyed a large majority of Jews in World War II, but every since then it brought anti-semtist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazis into American society.


 * Blitzkrieg**, also known as "Lightning war", was the German war strategy when rushing into a country. Germany would send in a barrage of air bombers and then use fast tanks and transports to rush in the infantry.


 * Shutzstaffel,** also known as the SS or Blackshirts, was the group that organized the concentration camps for Jews, political leaders and unwanted races. Hitler wanted to purify the German country with only his Aryan race.

Hitler was against **Euthanasia Programs,** also known as mercy-killing, in World War II because they wanted to do experiments on the disabled persons. They needed to test different types of medicines and such on real human beings to see if they work properly.


 * Propaganda** in Germany was necessary to persuade Germans to join the cause and fight for their country. Josef Goebbels was master propagandist of the Nazi party, controlling all the print and film media, along with radio communications within Germany.

__**Primary Documents**__

Many American-owned ships have been sunk on the high seas. One American destroyer was attacked on September fourth. Another destroyer was attacked and hit on October seventeenth. Eleven brave and loyal men of our Navy were killed by the Nazis.

The plan has failed in its purpose. We have not been stunned. We have not been terrified or confused. This very reassembling of the Seventy-seventh Congress today is proof of that; for the mood of quiet, grim resolution which here prevails bodes ill for those who conspired and collaborated to murder world peace.