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=A Dark Man: Adolf Hitler=

A man that would become one of the most significant terrors of the world, started off on a bad foot. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. Born and raised in the Austrian town of Brauanu, Adolf was a failure. He failed in much of his studies as a young boy, and was often beaten by his father. Only Adolf and his sister Paula survied to be adults. Adolf planned to be an artist, but did not have the skill the Academy of fine Artsin Vienna required. Hitler fell back to selling small paintings for low prices, and life was tough. His disfaction of the jews and non-"Arian" races began when he saw their riches. He was not making much money, so he moved and tried to enlist in the Austrian Army. To his disbeleif, he was not physically fit enough to enlist. It was when the call for soldiers during World War I came that Hitler had his chance. Hitler won many medals of honor.

World War I ended with a loss of Germany and the cental powers. The Treaty of Versailles ended the war, and helped plunge Germany into a depression. The treaty stated that Germany was to pay massive war debts to France and Britain. This angered Germany because they already were in a depression in result to the massive amounts of money they used during the war. German was no longer aloud to have their own army. Germany also lost all of the land it conquered, and some that was home soil.These loses and debts angered Germans and they were humiliated. Historians beleive that the Treaty of Versailles was a direct cause of WWII. . It would be Adlof Hitler, that would reunite Germany and plunge the world into a second world war, for revenge.

After fighting in the army, Hitler's thoughts changed. He went back to Germany, finding that it was in a horrible depression. Hitler could not bare to see his people suffer any longer. He rose up to be a great leader, and created the NAZI party. The NAZI party was like many other facist groups during this era. They seeked military expansion, racial unity, and wanted to pull Germany out of its depression. The party started off small, and was convicted of cruel practices. Adolf Hitler was placed in jail and wrote a book called Mein Kampf, or "My Struggle." The book showed Hitler's views on Germany, and how angry he was with people like the Jews. When he got out of jail, the Nazi party boomed, and began the largest party in Germany. The party would take control in 1933. NAZI influence struck the world, and groups were even formed in the United States. It would be a few years later when the terror of the NAZI party would begin.

In 1933 the President of Germany, Paul Von Hindenburg, waved to a large German croud. NAZI flags flew throughout the city as Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. The president was desperate and needed to chose a powerful leader to pull Germany out of its depressin. He basically handed Germany over to Hitler and said save us. Hitler began to practices his gestures and speaches so he could become a more powerful leader. Hitler was a master of propaganda. He blamed everything that he could on the Jews using the press and his own techniques. After gaining so much support, Hitler began his run to become dictator of Germany. On March 23, 1933, Hitler was appointed dictator of Germany without a president signature. Hitler was now in full control and turned his attention to expanding Germany, promoting racial supremecy, and most importantly, bringing fourth revenge for Germany.

Hitler began his terrifying run by invading Austria and quicky forming a Union with it. Hitler wanted Austria because of all the German speakers in it. Hitler proceded to capture the Sudetland, a resourse rich, German speaking area of Czechoslavakia. Britain and France did not like the idea, but a meeting with them would change their minds. Hitler promised that this would be the last territorial gain of Germany. The three countries signed the Munich Agreement, which allowed Germany the Sudetland. Future Britain Prime Ministor Winston Churchill beleived that the two countries were being dishonerable by allowing Germany this land. Of course, Germany's conquest was not over. Germany wanted to invade Poland, but doing this could spark a two front war. To counter this, Hitler and the Soviet Union agreed to a non-aggression pact. With that out of the picture, German tanks and soldiers invade Poland using a new technique called Blitzkrieg. It involved rapid war and movement throughout a country. Two days after the invasion, Britain and France declared war on Germany. Poland ceased to exist in three weeks, with Germany using Blitzkrieg from the West and the Soviet Union attacking from the East. The dreaded World War II has begun.

=‍‍‍Primary Documents:= = = Five months ago tonight I proclaimed to the American people the existence of a state of unlimited emergency. And since then much has happened. Our Army and Navy are temporarily in Iceland in the defense of the Western Hemisphere. Hitler has attacked shipping in areas close to the Americas in the North and South Atlantic. 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. We have wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting has started. And history has recorded who fired the first shot. In the long run, however, all that will matter is who fired the last shot. America has been attacked. The U.S.S. Kearny is not just a Navy ship. She belongs to every man, woman and child in this nation.

‍‍ ‍‍My German countrymen, men and women, Changes of Government have occurred frequently in history, and in the history of our people. It is certain, however, that never was a change of Government attended with such far-reaching results as that eight years ago. At that time the situation of the Reich was desperate. We were called upon to take over the leadership of the nation at a moment when it did not seem to develop towards a great rise. We were given power in circumstances of the greatest conceivable pressure, the pressure of the knowledge that, by itself, everything was lost, and that, in the eyes of the noblest minds, this represented a last attempt, while in the eyes of evil-wishers it should condemn the National-Socialist Movement to final failure. Unless the German nation could be saved, by a miracle, the situation was bound to end in disaster. For during a period of 15 years, events had moved downwards without respite. On the other hand, this situation was only the result of the World War: of the outcome of the World War, of our own internal, political, moral, and military collapse. For these reasons it is particularly important on a day like this to think back to the course of that entire national misfortune. .

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