Adolf Hitler
- Born: April 20, 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria
- Died: April 30, 1945, Berlin, Germany
- The leader of the Nazi party
Photo of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler's family
- Grew up in a middle class family
- an indulgent mother who pampered him
- a hot-tempered father who disapproved of his son of his bad grades
Adolf Hitlers Family
Education and Goals
- Dropped out of school at the age of 16 without a degree
- 1907 He went to vienna where he dreamed of being a artist.
- Denied admission to the academy of Fine Arts
- During his 5 years in Vienna he learned to hate jews and marxist
- he thought they had formed an evil union to destroy the world
- He despised liberalism and democracy
- Hitler moved to Munich Germany in 1913
- volunteered for the german army the year after the outbreak of the great war (WW1)
Paintings during WW1
National socialism
- In 1921 he became chairman of the party now know as the National socialist (The Nazi Movement)
- The Nazi Movement made its first appearance in 1923 when Hitler tried to overthrow the democratic weimar republic that had replaced the German empire in 1919
- The revolt ended quickly with gunfire of police units. Hitler was placed in jail for his actions
- Hitler emerged from prison in 1924
- National socialist made rapid gains after 1929
- People blamed the young German democracy for Germanys misforunes
Nazi's
- A formed group with Adolf Hitler, forged a community based on racism.
- Nazi added a unique and frightening twist to their Ideolstrata of society
- launched a campaign to increase birth through tax credits, special child allowances ,and marriage loans
- Re wrote the laws so you could get divorced
Map of Germany during WW1
Great Depression
- led to bloody street battles, shaking the foundation of germanys fragile young democracy
- Parliamentary system they considered ineffective and corrupt between 1930-1932
- The Nazi Party became the single largest party in parliament in
- President Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934) offered Hitler chancellorship
- He promised a german Reich, or empire that would endure for a thousand years.
- Hitler outlawed all other political, and made it illegal to start create a new party
- The only legal party was the national socialist between 1933-1935
The Great Depression and the struggle people went through
Segregation
- 1933 Nazi initiated systematic measures to suppress Germany's Jewish population
- 1935 Nuremberg law deprived German Jaws of their citizenship and prohibited marriage and sexual intercourse between jews and other germans
- Government agencies, Banks, and businesses took steps to eliminate Jews from economic life and expropriate their wealth
- Jewish owned businesses or arranged for their purchase at much less the their value
- The official goal of the Nazi was Jewish emigration
- (the night of broken glass)"kristallnaclut" During the night of 9-10 November 1938 the Nazi arranged for the destruction of thousands of Jewish stores.
- Roughly 250,000 Jews left Germany by 1938
Mein Kampf
- Book written by Adolf Hitler
- A book about his political views
- It became the bible of the Nazi movement
- He belived that the titanic struggle between a superior aryan race inferior no artan racis
The book Adolf Hitler Wrote Mein Kampf