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//**Adolf Hitler, the Monster **// =//Early Life //= = = ﻿Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in am Inn Braunau, a small Austrian town. He grew up with his father who was fifty-one and his mother, Klara, who was twenty-three years younger than his father making her twenty-eight years old. His father, Alois, was short-tempered and hit the young Hitler regularly. Klara, was the total opposite of her husband, she frequently took sides with her son rather than her husband when they got into disagreements. Adolf loved his mother so; he carried a picture of her with him wherever he went. Hitler had several siblings. Adolf was the fourth of six siblings, but his older siblings didnt live to be over the age of three. Alois worked hard every day as a civil servant and like all fathers; he thought his young son, Hitler, would want to be just like him. But, Hitler had other things in mind, as a child, he aspired to be an artist. Klara, as always supported her son, but Alois was shocked and disapproving. He wanted Hitler to join the civil service just like him, but Hitler refused his father’s plea. In primary school, Hitler did extremely well and seemed as though he would have a bright future ahead of him, his grades were outstanding. He was a very popular and well-known student at that. But, when he started secondary school, everything changed. His grades began to drop and he was no longer popular among his pupils. The relationship between him and his father deteriorated and ended when Alois died in 1903. Hitler was fixated on this idea of dropping out and finally persuaded his mother to let him do so. The death of his father allowed him to get an inheritance of some of his father’s money when he was eighteen. With this money, Hitler decided to move to Vienna where he planned to become an art student. He was saddened when he learned that the Vienna Academy of Art rejected his application. He was so shattered that he couldn’t even find the strength to tell his mother the truth and stayed in Vienna pretending to be an art student. In 1907, Klara Hitler, died of cancer. The death of Klara caused Hitler far much more pain than that of Alois. He had fond memories of his mother, supposedly when he died; his mother’s photograph was resting in his palm.

=//A Military Calling //=

In 1909, Hitler should’ve registered for military service, but he refused to serve Austria, which he despised, so he ignored his call-up papers. It took the authorities four years to catch up with Adolf. He had his medical for the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1914, but he was rejected as being too weak. When World War II happened, this gave Hitler the chance to prove that Germany was the superior out of all the European countries. Rejecting the idea of fighting for Austria, he joined the German Army. His fellow soldiers described him as "odd" and "peculiar". Hitler was a quiet guy, but occasionally, he would have outbursts. These outbursts would be mainly about Jews and Marxists, Hitler claimed were undermining the war effort. Hitler then became an unemployed soldier.

=//Rise of Hitler and the Nazis //=

Few would've thought the Nazi Party, starting as a gang of unemployed soldiers in 1919, would become Germany's legal government by 1933. In fourteen years, Adolf Hitler would become chancellor of Germany. Hitler joined The German Workers' Party in 1919 and rose to leadership with his emotional and captivating speeches. He changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers' Party or the Nazi Party for short. By the end of 1920, the party had about 3,000 members. A year later he became the party's official leader. Hitler, as well as other leaders from the Nazi Party, were later charged with treason. While in jail, he wrote a book, //Mein Kampf//. In the Election of 1932, the Nazi's won 37% of the //Reichstag// seats, thanks to a massive propaganda campaign. The most powerful leaders in Germany underestimated Hitler's political abilities.

=//The Ending of War I & The Treaty of Versailles //=

Final allied push began on October 17, 1918. Germany began to crumble from within. On the morning of November 11, hostilities would be stopped at 11 o'clock. All over the world on November 11, 1918, people celebrated by dancing in the streets and drinking champagne. The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 is the peace treaty created as a result of the six-month-long //Paris Peace Confrence of 1919//.The treaty truly effected Germany and required Germany and its allies accept responsibility for causing the war and pay large amounts of war reparations. It was signed in the //Hall of Mirrors// in the //Palace of Versailles//. The treaty provided for the creation of the //League of Nations//. The purpose of the organization was to arbitrate conflicts between nations before they lead to war. The German Army was to be restricted to a maximum of 100,000 men, there was to be no conscription, no tanks or heavy artillery and no general staff. The German Navy was restricted to 15,000 men and no submarines. Germany was not permitted an airforce. The total sum for reparations for Germany was 269 billion gold marks, a sum that many economists deemed to be excessive.

=//The Beginning of World War II //= = = Historians say the seeds of World War II were planted in the Treaty of Versailles. Germany was crippled by the reparations and embraced the fascist Nazi Party. The German country was very weak at this point and this gave Hitler the perfect chance to take over. Hitler took total control of the government in 1933 and remilitarized Germany, sought out more "living space" and stressed racial purity for the German people. In 1938, Hitler annexed Austria and bullied Britain and France into allowing him to take the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. In the following year, Germany signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union and invaded Poland on September 1, beginning World War II.

= = **//anti-Semitism//**-suspicion of hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews. -A person who holds these views is called "antisemite". People who supported these views would sometimes take part in violent attacks, even the police would take part. **//euthanasia program//**-physicians killed thousands of people who were judged "incurably sick, by critical medical examination". Lated until the end of the Nazi regime. -The program ran from September 1939 until Aygust 1941, but it still continued until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945. During the euthanasia program, 70,273 people were killed. **//Gestapo//**-Secret State Police of Nazi Germany. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Was under the administration of the SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. From September 193 forward it was administered by the RSHA. //**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">book-burning campaigns **//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-were campaigns conducted by the authorities of Nazi Germany to cermonially burn all books in Germany which did not correspond with Nazi ideology. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Not all book burnings took place on May 10th, some were postponed because of rain. Among the book burnings, the works of Heinrich Heine were also burned. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**//blitzkreig//**-lightning war. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Blitzkreig operations were very effective during the campaigns of 1939. Germany used this tactic when they invaded Poland.
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 * //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Work Cited: //**

"Armistice - The End of World War I, 1918," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2004).

-This article basically sums up how World War I ended. In addition, it includes a person who was in the war's experience about how everyone celebrated when the war did end on November 11.

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 18, 2011).

-This article includes things such as Hitler's experience with his art career. In addition, it also mentions things such as information on the Treaty of Versailles and its effects.