The Early Life of Adolf Hitler
Many individuals all over the world know of Adolf Hitler and his terrible deeds. They know of his reasonability to the deaths of over 6 million innocent Jews. Many of these individuals believe that Adolf Hitler was a hateful man, with no heart or compassion. Only knowing the history of the Holocaust and World War II, that statement is true. But what would a man go through to end up heartless, compassionless, and evil? Adolf Hitler had a family, a childhood, and a personal history that not many individuals know about. I decided for my research paper that I would write about the early life of Adolf Hitler and what changed him into the evil man that the whole world knows him for.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th,
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As his grade school years were ending, Adolf had to choose between technical or classical school. His father pushed him to follow in his footsteps and become a civil servant. Adolf did not want to follow in his father’s footsteps. He wanted to attend classical school and follow his dreams of becoming an artist. Against Adolf’s will, his father sent him to technical high school in the city of Linz. Hitler’s first year in technical school went horribly. Hitler was a country boy in a school full of city boys. These children looked down on him, assuming that since he was from the country he was unintelligent. He was very lonely and extremely unhappy his first year, resulting in poor grades. Adolf had a great resentment to his father for sending him to technical school. Hitler explained in his book Mein Kampf that he “thought that once my father saw what little progress I was making at the [technical school] he would let me devote myself to the happiness I dreamed of.” (the history place) Many arguments happened between Hitler and his father. Hitler argued he did not want to spend his life at a desk that his dreams were to be an artist. Yet his father did not listen and sent him back to the technical school. This caused a bitter struggle between Adolf and his father. Adolf wanted to do everything opposite of his father. This is where Adolf’s interest in German Nationalism arose and quickly became an obsession. Alois had worked as an Austrian Imperial Customs agent and expressed loyalty to Austria. Seeing his father express his loyalty to Austria, Adolf began to express loyalty to the German Kaiser. Hitler and his friends used the German greeting “Heil”, and liked to sing the German anthem “Deutschland Uber Alles”. The constant struggle with his father would soon end. In 1903 Alois died of a lung hemorrhage, leaving 13 year old Adolf Hitler the head of the Hitler
At the start of grade school, Hitler’s father, Alois, retired from his job at the Austrian Civil Service. Hitler’s environment at school was very stressful because his teachers were very strict. His environment at home was also stressful. His father was used to giving orders at work and having them obeyed and he did the same thing at home. In addition, money was very scarce because there were five people, his father, Alois, his mother, Maria, an older half brother, Alois Jr., a younger brother, Edmund, a younger sister, Paula, and himself; all living on his father’s pension. His home life was also unstable and he was made to feel like an outsider: 1) even though he had two parents, Alois was verbally and physically abusive to Hitler’s older brother, Alois Jr., practically ignoring Hitler, while his mother was so focused on the younger children, she neglected the older ones and 2) because money was scarce, they moved around frequently, so he changed schools often while his living spaces got smaller. After his brother ran away at the age of 14, Hitler’s father turned his abusive behavior on Hitler with beatings and constantly talking down to
In Hitler early years the loss of his parents had severely threatened his social status. He would strive to create art and believed that he was very talented. He could not understand why others did not see his talents though and why he was rejected from art schools numerous times. This lead to much time being spent in the library where he would indulge himself in political tracts. His first attempt at being a part of the German military would come as a great upset to him. He is turned down because they see him as unfit. His military entry would come after the 1914 June 28th assassination of the Arch duke Franz Ferdinand and the start of the First World War.
Have you ever wondered how Adolf Hitler became the powerful and evil dictator he was? In todays society, no one is brought into this world as evil; everyone is born in the purest form of life. Something bad has to happen to someone that makes a person have so much hate. Therefore, in order to better understand what made Hitler so evil, people need to know that he was influenced by his relationship with his father, not being able to pursue his dream, and his beliefs.
In 1940 Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Nazi Germany. Hitler, with the support of Germany, begins his quest for world domination and purging his nation of all those he thinks are impure to his new aryan race. These people are the Jews, the disabled, gypsies, those with different political views, and those who are gay.
On April 30th, 1945 Hitler escaped the Canary Islands, and escaped to Argentina to hide. He went through the tempelhof airport to the Canary Island and ported a U-boat. The U-boat took him to Argentina where every person thought he was died.
Many wonder what the notorious Adolf Hitler must have endured that led him the become such an evil, careless person. He is infamously known as the main perpetrator of the Holocaust in which roughly ten million people died. Although his exact reasoning for intolerance is, and always will be, unknown, we can infer his motive probably began for reasons such as his failure to become an artist, his abusive father, and his public relations with anti-semitic leaders.
To annoy his father, Adolf decided to rebel and to only do well in the classes in which he wished to do well, just to annoy his father. When he was 14, Adolf’s father died, and he convinced his mother to let him quit school. He spent his days visiting the opera, library, and theater. When Hitler was 18 years old, he traveled to Vienna, Austria, and applied to the Academy of Fine arts, but did not get in. Hitler’s mother passed away in 1907, he was heartbroken, and the doctor said that he had never seen someone so overcome with grief as Adolf Hitler to the loss of his mother. After this tragic event in Hitler’s life, he re-applied to the Academy of Fine Arts again and did not get in. Hitler began to live a drifter life with no home or joke, making money here and there.
Life was all fun and games until Hitler came into power. And started throwing Jews into the concentration camps, with the help of a group he created called the Nazis. Life in the camps was horrible, daily routine was designed to take away the prisoners identities, sanitation was awful and they were almost constantly being beat.
On April 20, 1889, a demon was brought into this world. His name was Adolf Hitler. He was born in the family quarters of the Pommer Inn in Braunau, a small city on the Austrian border. The child was unhealthy and his mother, Klara, worried that young Adolf would not survive. Klara provided much love and attention to her baby, which Adolf would later take advantage of to get what he wanted (Smith 50). Despite his self-centeredness, Adolf held a deep bond with his mother which united them throughout his childhood. On the other hand, Alois, Adolf’s father, failed to play an important role in Adolf’s development. Alois spent the majority of his time away from the customs station with his friends
In 1903 Adolph Hitler’s Father Alois would pass away. Hitler was only 13 at the time (World History Project 2). The news of His father’s passing would have a large impact on Adolph, just like it would on any of us today. At such a young age it is difficult to deal with losing a parent and can have a lasting impact on any child. Studies have shown that children who grew up with one or more parents experienced “a negative impact in adulthood with regards to trust, relationships, self-esteem, feeling of self-worth loneliness and isolation and the ability to express feelings” (Ellis). The loss of self-esteem or sense of loneliness or isolationism could have driven Adolph towards acceptance, which in his Art Academy days was to be anti-Semitic, as unfortunate as that may be. Adolph would then experience the death of his mother Klara at the young age of 18 (World History Project 3). This death would occur while he was being rejected from Art school in Vienna. This combination of factors would lead to a perfect storm of pressure and stress that would push Hitler to a path of attempted acceptance. Losing Both Parents before the age of 20 would affect anyone, and Hitler was no exception. We can only speculate that in an attempt to cope with the death of his parents Adolph fell into a downward spiral of hate.
Eleven million dead million scarred a nation ruled by despot. This was the work of Adolf Hitler. “‘Have no pity! act brutally!’ he told his soldiers"(Hoffman 1). Hitler's forces conquered most of Europe then they fell in 1945.
Appeasements most notable trait, one that ultimately lead to its demise, was its failure to fully grasp the true ambitions of Adolf Hitler. Chamberlain, among many other politictions, were guilty of beieving Hitler was more of an opportunist who sought freedom from the overbearing misery the Treaty of Versailles through a realpolitik perspective in order to bring Germany back to the great nation it had previosly been. Historians such as A.J.P. Taylor, a profound British historian, truly believed that Hitlers intentions were not to fulfill Germanys racial destiny of creating living space, known as lebensraum, but to simply gain back everything that was lost. Taylors mindset as to why Germany had expanded beyond its pre-World War I borders was
Adolf Hitler. The Holocaust. Nazi Germany. These are all things that when said, strike anger in our hearts. The treatment of Jews at the time was terrible. It was the world’s largest genocide. Over 15 million people were killed. But, how different was that different than the treatment of Africans and African Americans in the U.S? Sure, it seemed kinder than the treatment of those people in Germany, but was it that different? What made Hitler’s government so different from the U.S. government?
By private Vatican request, the west gate to Vienna’s Central Cemetery opens on three o’clock, Friday, October 2, 1931. In motionless air, a solitary groundskeeper is kept waiting another seventeen minutes. Then before he can blink, Adolf Hitler’s supercharged Mercedes Benz convertible rockets past. Beside the Führer sits Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, pince-nez glinting sunlight. In their wake, four black staff cars navigate a sea of tombstones before killing their engines at the moldering Lueger Kirche. Here, not two weeks earlier, the body of Hitler’s niece and lover Geli Raubal was consecrated for burial.
Unlike his later life, Hitler was an innocent little boy. He was smart in school and he was also very popular. But thanks to his father’s job, he moved school 3 times! His dad enrolled him into “Realschule” (1900-1905). His dad died in 1903 while Hitler was in high school. As a result of his death, Hitler’s grades dropped dramatically. He left high school at 16 with no qualifications and there was not much hope for him anymore. Two years after his failed education, on 21st September 1907, his mother sadly passed away.