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Adolf Hitler's Rise To Power

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Adolf Hitler was a German leader of the Nazi Party from 1933 to 1945. He was one of the most powerful and infamous dictators of the 20th century. In Germany he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September of 1939, and enabled the Holocaust. In World War I, he rose to power in the National Socialist German Workers Party, taking control over the German government in 1933.
Baptized a Catholic, Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria. In 1898, the Hitler family moved to Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. Seeking a career in visual arts, Hitler fought bitterly with his father who wanted him to enter the Habsburg civil service. After his father’s death he finally persuaded his mother, Klara, to allow him to pursue his dream to become an artist. Hitler took the entrance exam to the Vienna Academy of the Arts and failed to gain acceptance. In early 1908 a few weeks after his mother’s death in December of 1907, he moved to Vienna. In hope of renewing efforts to win acceptance in the Academy of Arts. Once World War I came around he committed himself to it and earned several medals and was promoted to the rank of corporal. …show more content…

These conditions provided the chance for the rise of a new leader, Adolf Hitler, and his party, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazi Party for short. Hitler was a powerful and spellbinding speaker who attracted a wide following of Germans desperate for change. He promised a better life and a new and glorious Germany. The Nazis appealed especially to the unemployed, young people, and members of the lower middle class. Within a decade he had completely transformed Germany from a poverty stricken nation into a leading world power; starting with his Invasion of Poland in 1939, he had started his conquest of

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