...Woolf-Gurley English 1301-12123 The Life of Adolf Hitler The life of Adolf Hitler had always been a struggle since the day he was born till the very end of his life. You never really understand the situations people put themselves in and why until you really learn about them. Everyone may have their own personal opinions about someone but who is anyone to judge before they really understand the person completely. Each person has their own time line, and everything that has happened to them to make them the person they grow up to be, everyone has certain events throughout their lives that define them and help mold them into adults. Many people know of Adolf Hitler and why he was a part of history. They know of him as being responsible for the Holocaust, but very few know the reasons that led him to it. Born in Branau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. In 1895, at age six, two important events happened in the life of young Adolf Hitler. First, the unrestrained, carefree days he had enjoyed up to now came to an end as he entered primary school. Secondly, his father retired on a pension from the Austrian civil service. This meant a double dose of supervision, discipline and regimentation under the watchful eyes of teachers at school and his strict father at home. His father, now 58, had spent most of his life working his way up through the civil service ranks. He was used to giving orders and...
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...Instead of working to achieve power by armed coup, we shall hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the opposition deputies. If outvoting them takes longer than out shooting them, at least the results will be guaranteed by their own constitution. Sooner or later we shall have a majority, and after that- Germany. (Heiden, 142)' Adolf Hitler spoke these words in 1920, soon after becoming leader of the newly named National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party. There are many contributing factors, which lead to Hitler's gain in power over the next thirteen years. The recent history of post-war Germany, and the events that would follow were of perfect conditions for the rise of an extremist party such as the Nazis. World War One had left Germany in defeat. Germany was put under immense pressure by the treaty of Versailles, which contributed to the disastrous and politically unstable early twenties. Hitler was a strong and manipulating character, with extraordinary leadership skills and his party was very tactical. He was very much underestimated by opposing political parties. All of these factors lead to Hitler and his Nazis' becoming the sole political party in the Reichstag in 1933. The German Empire was formed in 1871 and soon became one of Europe?s most influential countries. It dominated in industrial and military power, and the German people were proud of their achievements. Up until the end of World War One, a Kaiser ruled Germany. From...
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...that all Jewish children were finally banned from attending German schools. In Germany education was a major tool by which the Nazis’ racial policies were promoted and implemented. Initially, many teachers ignored the political changes. However, very soon, those German teachers who supported the Nazis or had been converted to Nazism began to develop new daily rituals and routines. Many of the 32 per cent of teachers who became Nazi Party members would wear their uniform to school. Once teachers began to show their support for the Nazi Party in schools, the atmosphere within the classroom became very different from the one students had known previously. The teacher would enter the classroom and welcome the group with a ‘Hitler salute’, shouting “Heil Hitler!” Students would have to respond in the same manner, often eight times each day – at the start and end of the day, in addition to the beginning and end of each lesson. Some changes in the curriculum caused minor incidents. Teachers varied on how they handled such situations. One Jewish boy remembers, "... I don't know if it was part of the curriculum, [in fourth grade] Bock taught us Nazi ideology ... Bock asked our class: 'Who loves the Fuehrer?' All had raised their hands, except me. Bock then asked: 'Maier, you don't raise your hand, don't you love the Fuehrer? Why don't you love the Fuehrer?' I responded to the challenge with: 'Because he doesn't love me.'" [Maier] It became common for Jewish children to be...
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...Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, in Austria, on April 20, 1889, the third son of Alois and Klara Hitler. The family moved around a lot, including to Linz, Leonding and other places. Hitler did well in school at the beginning, but his marks got progressively worse as time went on. His father died when he was 14, his mother when he was 18. He tried twice to enter the Academy for Art in Vienna, but was rejected both times. Between 1909 and 1913, he lived in Vienna. There is controversy as to whether he was destitute there. He moved to Munich (Germany) in 1913, and was still there when World War I broke out in August 1914. Hitler enlisted in the German army and saw four years of front-line service during which he was wounded several times and decorated for bravery twice. He was gassed near the end of the war. During this time, he served as an intelligence agent for the military authorities, in the course of which he attended a meeting of the tiny German Workers Party in 1919. He later joined the party, became its leader and changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, later called the Nazi Party. In 1920, the 25 Points of the Nazi Party were proclaimed, one of which called for the removal of the Jews from German society. The Nazis tried to seize power by force in November 1923 (called the Beer Hall Putsch), but were thwarted by the Munich police. Hitler wasconvicted of high treason and sentenced to prison, where he served about a year. During that time...
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...other countries. Reparations were even harder to pay since Germany was in the midst of one of the worst stagflation epidemics in history. Not to mention a brand new government, one that had nothing to do with the signing of this treaty, had taken over power. All of the people of this once superpower of a country was in a state of perplexity because they had lost a war at had been fought entirely on enemy soil. Germany was searching for an answer to its insurmountable problems, and found that answer in a Nazi named Adolf Hider. Hitler was born in Austria, into a troubled house. He had aspirations of becoming an artist, but those subsided when he was rejected from the college of art he planned on attending. He had started listening to a man named Lueger who was at that time the mayor of Vienna. Lueger was a Nazi, with strong anti-Semitic views, which seemed to be a logical answer for Hider and his problems. It was around this time that Hitler was drafted by the army. Instead of going to fight for his country, he chose to flee to Germany. Which is a bewildering thought seeing as how he voluntarily joined the German army when he got there. After the war, Hider joined up with a right wing campaign whose job was to spy on other government groups. Upon spying on one of the parties, the N.S.D.A.P. or Nazi party, he found that he had a lot in common with their views. He decided this was his calling so he ended up joining that particular party. While in this party, he found out about...
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...itler Hitler the leader of the German nation deserves 30% of the blame. He convinced the German people that the Nazi party had the answers. He wanted to purify the race by eliminating any other people who did not fit in with his idea of the perfect race. The residents of Auschwitz and other towns near concentration camps who knew about the camps who knew about the camps but did nothing to stop them deserve 10% of the blame. Other people risked their lives to help the people in the camps. The minor Nazi soldiers deserve 5% of the blame. They carried out the mass extermination orders without questioning their superiors. If they would have questioned their superiors they might have been shot. German citizens who voted for Hitler and Nazi Party to revitalize their morally and economically depressed country deserve 10% of the blame. If they had voted for another candidate then maybe the Holocaust would never have happened. The Jews who did not try to escape don’t deserve any blame. They should not have had to escape. Even if they did they probably would have gotten caught and killed sooner. The top SS officers deserve 15% of the blame. They were the ones who designed the different ways to kill the Jews. They also executed the “final solution” for Hitler. Non-Jewish Europeans who turned against their Jewish friends and fellow citizens for fear that they too would be imprisoned as Jewish sympathizers deserve 10% of the blame. They should not have feared that they...
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...A Critical Analysis: Slump! A Study of Stricken Europe Today by H. Hessell Tiltman HIST * 1500 Bailey Young 0718718 Germany, a country that once thrived, was bombarded with a decline so extreme it may have actually led to the most devastating genocide in the history of mankind. The desperation of the German people left no room for the critical analyses of a radical political movement, for the extreme hunger and horrifying living conditions left everyone striving for a change. The effects of the depression in Germany were instrumental in helping Hitler and his political movement gain power. Because the impoverished German people were so desperate for a change, they were convinced that Hitler represented hope for a better future. The Great Depression that hit Germany in 1929 is said to be the most disastrous and sever depression in modern world history.[1]It devastated the lives of the German public and caused the economy to turn upside down. It is often argued that the stock market crash on Wall Street that took place on October 29,1929 is the cause of the national upheaval that in turn led to the depression.[2] In the early 20’s, the stock market provided people with the false promise of guaranteed wealth. Countless stories of common teachers, chauffeurs and maids becoming millionaires because of the stock market surfaced, and reinforced this belief.[3] The profits seemed so assured that large banks invested their clients capital without their...
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...ADOLF HITLER- LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES James Latronica Edison State College ADOLF HITLER- LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES Even though he is famous for the wrong reasons and perhaps evil ones, Adolf Hitler will be remembered for a long time. He is one of the most famous villains of the 20th century world history. His rule over Germany and parts of Europe left a mark that is felt even today, decades after he died in the war. His rule saw Germany take over more territories than it had in its history prior to that period. For many military professionals, Hitler was a remarkably successful leader. However, his leadership led to the death of millions of people from his home country. While his followers called him a great leader, his enemies, who seem to be the majority, saw him as a threat to humanity. Hitler believed in a country of pure people; a superior race. For him, however, a superior race could not be comprised of Jews and other sickly people. He therefore put all the people he disliked in work camps while continuing to kill the rest. While the leader was relentless, it is noted that he did not have the best judgment. He thought that the superior race was composed of physically strong people. It has, however, been proven that the mind is almost all the time stronger than the body. It is important to acknowledge that, while his methods were wrong, his leadership was effective. He was able to run a country while waging wars...
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...unemployed. The Great depression had begun which put Germany under great misery and they needed a solution, that’s when Adolf Hitler came (The Depression). He became leader of the third Reich. He was a cruel dictator in the 1930’s, who was determined to do anything to restore the honor to his country, Germany (American). When Hitler was younger he was influenced by his teachers and he was surrounded by the political confrontation in the Austrian empire, which is what made Hitler have such strong leadership. There was a lot of prejudice against different ethnic groups which is why Hitler is so prejudice. Hitler was temporarily blinded in a gas attack and later that day he found out the news that Germany had lost the war. He was so humiliated and was determined to play a role in restoring Germany to a position of power and respect on the world stage. He vowed to keep fighting for national glory. His solution for restoring Germany’s power was to have a national dictatorship. He believed that his traitors were the Jews, socialist, liberals, pacifists, and all Germans who believed in Democracy. Hitler soon joined the Nazi party and became leader of it. He made the Nazis into a military-like organization and ruled them like a dictator (American). “On February 27 a fire destroyed part of a building and although it was started by a man who was a communist, Hitler used this as an excuse to begin a reign of terror against all other political enemies. The parliament granted the Nazis legal...
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...Question (a) – ‘What do sources A and B suggest about .........?’ (4 marks) All questions are marked in levels. The levels for q. (a) are: Level 1 ‐ Answers which repeat details from the sources (1 mark) Level 2 ‐ Answers that draw a simple inference from the sources (2‐3 marks) Level 3 ‐ Answers that draw a complex inference from the sources (4 marks) An inference is learning something from the source that it does not directly tell you. In other words reading between the lines. Look at the example on the page opposite. Source A ‐ From a Social Democrat account of the Hitler Youth movement in 1934. Youth adores the drill, the uniform, the comradeship, the fact that school and parents take a back seat compared to the Hitler Youth. The parents cannot forbid the child to do what all children are doing, cannot refuse him the uniform. Young people follow the instructions of the Hitler Youth. They demand...
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...All of his life, Adolf Hitler had been obsessed with the musical works of German composer Richard Wagner. As a teenager living in Austria, Hitler was deeply inspired by Wagner's operas and their pagan, mythical tales of struggles against hated enemies. One time, back in 1905, after seeing Wagner's opera Rienzi, young Hitler professed he would someday embark on a great mission, leading his people to freedom, similar to the opera's story. Now, some 40 years later, after failing in his mission as Führer of the German People and Reich, another of Wagner's operas hearkened, and it was Hitler's favorite – Der Ring des Nibelungen. It concerns a magic Ring granting its possessor the power to rule the world. In the last part of this opera, entitled Götterdämmerung, or 'Twilight of the gods," the hero Siegfried, betrayed by those around him, loses the Ring and winds up on a funeral pyre while the fortress of Valhalla burns and the kingdom of the gods is destroyed. The dream of Germania--capital of Greater Germany as envisioned by Hitler in his scale model of a postwar Berlin. Below: Reality--the muck and mire of bombed out Berlin in the spring of 1945. This essentially was the ending Hitler inflicted upon himself, his People and his Reich. Piece by piece, it all came together over the last ten days of his life, beginning on Friday, April 20, 1945. That day Hitler met for the last time with his top Nazis. The occasion was Hitler's 56th birthday, a dreary celebration inside...
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...Running head: HOW HITLER SEDUCED GERMANY WITH SPEECHES 1 How Hitler Seduced Germany with Speeches Name Institution HOW HITLER SEDUCED GERMANY WITH SPEECHES 2 How Hitler Seduced Germany with Speeches Almost everyone finds it appropriate to consider Adolf Hitler a synonym of evil. However, one wonders how Hitler gained popularity and support of Germans even when he was that wicked. A review of his speeches, though, reveals the secret. Hitler was exceptional in manipulating people with his speeches and good at using strategic propaganda techniques. Importantly, Hitler was conscious about his skills. At some time, he was quoted saying, “I am conscious that I have no equal in the art of swaying the masses” (Gigliotti, 2001). His success in moving masses is certain evidence that the Nazi leader was accurate in his sentiments. The ability to deliver engaging speeches is an important skill for anyone who needs to convince masses. It does not matter who or what the speaker is. Importantly, though, the speech must demonstrate good knowledge of pressing issues that the audience may consider important for an address. Hitler knew what majority of the people wanted to hear. He largely focused on people’s challenges in his speeches, which helped to convince his audience that he would be able to confront the challenges (Wistrich, 2001). For instance, he knew that pr eceding governments...
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...Hitler Background Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in the small Austrian town of Braunau. His father was Alois Hitler who later became a senior customs official and his wife Klara, who was from a deprived peasant family. At primary school, Hitler showed great knowledgeable and was extremely well known with other pupils as well as being respected for his management (leadership) qualities. However, rivalry at secondary school was harder and Hitler stopped trying as a consequence. At the age of 18, he moved to Vienna with money he had inherited after his father's death in 1903. Hitler became interested in politics and how the crowds could be made to respond to specific themes. He was mainly mesmerised with the anti-Semitic, nationalist Christian-Socialist party. Throughout the First World War he offered to fight for the German Army and was promoted to the rank of corporal, earning accolades as a dispatch-runner. He won several awards for bravery, including the Iron Cross First Class. In October 1918, he was blinded in a mustard gas attack. Germany surrendered while Hitler was in hospital and he went into a state of great depression, spending lots of time in tears. After the war ended, Hitler's future seemed uncertain. He quickly rose through the ranks and, by 1921, was the leader of the re-named National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi). With terrible economic conditions and rapid inflation, support for Hitler's party grew. By 1923, the Nazi's had 56,000...
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...Kendrick Alexandre Adolf Hitler’s Life Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889 as an Austrian born German; who became Fuhrer of Nazi Germany. Hitler’s parents were Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl, he was the fourth born of six. Hitler was a rebel when he went to school, one day he and his father had got into an argument because of his refusal to conform to the strict discipline that the school enforced. After his father failed at farming he moved to Lambach, at age eight Hitler began singing lessons, in the church choir, he even considered becoming a priest when he was old enough; however the death of his brother, Edmund who dies of measles, affected him deeply. Hitler changed, he went from a confident, outgoing, conscientious, student to a detached, sullen boy who did nothing but fight his father and teachers. Hitler did however had the passion to go to a classical high school to become an artist, his father wanted him to grow up in his footsteps and wanted to have a career in customs bureau. His father decided to send him to a technical school, in his book Mein Kampf , he tells us that he did poorly in school hoping that his father would see “what little progress I was making at the technical school he would let me devote myself to my dream.” In school young Austrian Germans began to develop German nationalist ideas, Hitler began to express his loyalty to Germany and despising the Hasburg Monarchy. In January 3, 1903 Hitler’s father died, Hitler’s performance in school...
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...Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889. Throughout his life he was very close to his mother and had a difficult relationship with his father. Hitler's father passed away January 3, 1903 followed four year laters by his mother on December 21, 1907 from Breast Cancer. From the period of 1909-1913 Hitler was living homeless in Vienna. In May of 1913 he moved to Munich. By moving away from Austria he avoided the draft, however he was arrested by Munich officers and returned to Austria to face being enlisted. Upon arrival Hitler was put through a physical examination. At this time the doctors deemed him unfit for military service, he was then sent back to Munich. When World War I began Hitler petitioned King Ludwick III of Bavaria to serve in a Bavarian regiment of their Army. He was allowed and so become a runner for the Bavarian Army. Throughout most of World War I, Hitler found himself lucky enough to escape injury, even though he volunteered to go into battle. He was regarded by other soldiers as to eager to please his superiors. On October 7, 1916, Hitler's luck ran out. He was wounded by a shell fragment and sent to a Berlin hospital to recover. On a tour of Berlin, he was appalled at the anti-war sentiment among the German civilians. When he returned to light duty in Munich, he again saw this sentiment and blamed the Jewish people for this. With building hatred toward the Jews, Hitler asked to be sent back to the front lines in 1917. In 1918 Hitler...
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