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Adolf Hitler. Life and rise to power. The Life of Adolf Hitler. Born 1889 died 1945 born in Brunau, Upper Austria father-minor customs official mother-Bavarian in his Youth-loved Art and Music drops out of Secondary Education Vienna Academy of Arts rejects him <Hitler as a young man
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Adolf Hitler Life and rise to power
The Life of Adolf Hitler • Born 1889 died 1945 • born in Brunau, Upper Austria • father-minor customs official • mother-Bavarian • in his Youth-loved Art and Music • drops out of Secondary Education • Vienna Academy of Arts rejects him • <Hitler as a young man • Hitler’s Report Card
Hitler 1906-1913 • Supports himself selling prints, postcards, hanging wallpaper • While in Vienna-absorbs the characteristics of the lower middle class • intense anti-Semitism, fear of Socialism, German nationalism (sacred German Blood and Soil as preached by Richard Wagner)-Aryan Race • <Hitler Art Work • Richard Wagner’s Opera
Migration to Germany • World War I-enlists in a Bavarian Regiment • decorated for bravery twice • promoted to Lance Corporal (Private First Class in US Army) • becomes the 7th member of the ultranationalist and anti-Democratic German Workers Party-renamed The Nationalist Socialist German Workers-(Nazi) • Hitler in WWI
Leader of the Party • Great orator especially with War veterans, Nationalist who hated the Weimar Republic who were blamed for the treaty • Origins of the Nazi Party- • along military lines-Storm Troopers-Brown Shirts • 1923-attempts to seize control of the Bavarian Government in Munich-The Beer Hall Putsch-fails • sent to fortress Landberg to prison • <Hitler Speaking
In Prison • Trial is a Farce • sent to prison for 10 years-spends 9 months there • while in prison, dictates to Rudolph Hess-Mein Kampf (My Struggle) • outlines the program for German restoration and domination of Europe • while in jail-Nazi power declines-economic difficulties • 1923-1929-he extends party through Germany
The Depression and beyond • 1929-Depression hits • refuels the fire • the Nazi rise in Reichstag to near majority • Nazi constantly disrupted and shut down • 1932-Hitler is defeated by <Paul von Hindenburg for Presidential Elections • Chancellors-von Poppen and von Schliecher couldn’t cope with unemployment, street clashes between Nazis and communists
Hitler takes power • January 30, 1933 • Hitler appointed Chancellor • gets unprecedented powers from Reichstag • begins organization of a Totalitarian regime-The Third Reich (The Third Empire) • 1934-von Hindenburg dies • Hitler combines Reichpresident and Chancellor positions to become Der Fuhrer • <Hitler at Nuremburg