Adolf Hitler
Introduction
Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945), German political and military leader and one of the 20th century's most powerful rulers. Hitler converted Germany into a fully militarized society and launched World War II in 1939. He made anti-Jewish culture a top priority of his lies and policies and built the Nazi Party into a mass movement. He hoped to conquer the entire world, and for a time dominated most of Europe and much of North Africa. He founded sterilization and euthanasia measures to enforce his idea of racial purity among German people and caused the deaths of millions of Jews, Roma (Gypsies), Slavic people, and many others, all of whom he considered inferior.
Early Years
Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn,
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Life in Vienna
Hitler wanted to become an artist but was rejected because he was unqualified by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in October 1907. His mother died in 1908. Hitler mostly wandered about the city admiring its public buildings and often attending operas.
When he had lost all his inherited money, Hitler, unwilling to take a job, ended up in an orphanage. It was there that he was first exposed to his political ideas. At the same time Hitler acquired a hatred for communism and came to equate it with the Jews.
Between 1910 and 1913 Hitler?s life improved when he began to paint and sell postcards and pictures for a living. He copied famous paintings and drawings of public buildings. He talked about his ideas in a hostel, where he lived figuring out the beginnings of his public speaking style. Failure to register for recruitment in Austria led him to run for Munich, Germany, in 1913 to escape the Austrian police. He was handed over to Austria but was found physically unfit to be a soldier. So he then returned to Munich.
World War I
The outbreak of World War I in 1914 came as an opportunity for Hitler. He volunteered for a Bavarian unit in the German army and served the whole war. Though repeatedly decorated for bravery, he was never promoted beyond private first class. In a war of very high deaths, this is difficult to explain why this happened.
At the same time, his anti-Jewish feelings were growing extreme. When Germany was defeated in 1918. He decided
In 1908, he was 18 years old to move from Litz to Vienna. He toured through the streets of the beautiful city, but with his pockets and wallet empty. When he had nowhere to sleep, he often took his belongings to the nearest homeless shelter, and if there was no where else, he would be under a shaded bridge. Hitler failed the art test to get into a school of arts in Vienna not just once, but twice. He was also not built for a good job which left his pockets empty, until some jewish companions of his offered a job to make postcards and sold out to tourists. He had visions of Germany, some with Austria incorporated into them, at the time he still had many compliments to say about Jews. However, the city's rampant strains of anti-Semitism, which became popular bitterness of the rich Jewish Middle Class Man that had arisen under Franz Josef I, the clement and, effectively, the final Habsburg emperor. Hitler studied the memorizing style of the city's favored socialist, anti-Semitic mayor, Karl Lueger. Who knows what this could have led
Hitler was born in April 20, 1889 in Braunau, Austria. His father was a customs official and didn’t have a good relationship with him because he didn’t approve of his passion for art, which led Hitler to dislike him. His father died when he was only 14 years old and his mother, whom he loved very much, died from cancer when he was 18 years old. He dropped out of High school at the age of 15. He then moved to Vienna to pursue his dream of becoming an artist at the Vienna Academy of Art, but was rejected because he didn’t graduate school. He was very poor and in order to survive he painted postcards, shoveled snow and even became a builder’s laborer to name a few. It was in Vienna where he grew hatred for foreigners and Jews. In 1914 he moved to Munich and when WWI was announced he immediately joined the German army. He was recruited to be a regimental runner it was a dangerous job because he was always in the way of cross fire. He was a good
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.
Adolf Hitler was born to Alois and Klara Hitler on April 20th, 1889. His childhood was unhappy, but not totally miserable. His father wanted him to be a civil servant, but Adolf wanted to become a painter. Hitler did well in Elementary school, but later on he failed miserably, which he blamed his teachers for. His father died in 1903, and Adolf dropped out of school two years later. In "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle), the autobiography Hitler dictated while in Landsberg prison in 1924, he says the period in his life from 1905 to 1908 as " the happiest days of my life almost a dream." In those years he becamse obsessed with politics and developed his hatred for the Hapsburg monarchy. He applied to the Vienna Academy of Fine
He finally got accepted in August of 1914, even though he wasn't a fellow German citizen he spent a lot of time there. He was at a lot of battles, and got wounded at the Somme. He then received an Iron Cross in First Class and got the Black Wound Badge for his bravery. He was getting bitter over all of the war effort. With all of that it gained his passion for the German Patriotism to be reinforced. Hitler was very shokced by the German's surrender in 1918. He thought that maybe they had been betrayed by the civilian leaders and also from teh Marxists. He thought that the Treaty of Versailles was just awful. He thought it was also because that the people were thinking that Germany should accept that they were the ones who started the war. After the war, he came back to Munich and worked for teh military as an intelligence
He was rejected from the school. After spending all money his mother left him when she passed away in December 21, 1907, Hitler found himself homeless, surviving off of charity soup kitchens. Many homeless shelters he stayed at were owned by a Jewish Baron. For four years Hitler refused to get a job and painted cheap postcards. He started reading anti-Jewish literature. In 1912, Hitler moved to Munich, Germany, where his lifestyle didn’t change. He enjoyed finding small groups of Germans who would listen to his political ideas about Jews and Communist. In 1914, World War I started and Hitler enlisted. He ranked as a corporal, which is not a very high rank. He was noticed for his bravery and awarded with the Iron Cross, which is a very rare medal. Hitler’s fellow soldiers found it odd that he rather enjoyed war (Stewart
He then decided to leave his mother to study in Vienna. Then in 1908 he applied for the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts but was rejected . While there his mother was home suffering from breast cancer and died a few months later. There is Vienna he became roommates with his friend from Linz, August Kubizek. Kubizek described Hitler by having an unstable personality and a temper. Hitler was prone to sudden bursts of inspiration but never finished anything he started. In Vienna he suffered bouts of depression and sometimes experienced extreme highs. Soon at age 21 Hitler began to become interested in politics which would help play out his soon to be career (Hitler, Adolf).
Following the death of his mother Hitler moved to Vienna to pursue a career in art, however, he was not accepted into any of the art schools which he had applied for. Hitler would stay in Vienna for five years, spiteful of his many failures in his career. Hitler finally left Vienna in May of 1913 to serve in World War 1 as a despatch runner. A quote from
Before the war, Hitler was living in Vienna. Both of his parents were dead and he spent all of his inheritance. He was rejected by the Viennese Academy of Art twice and was living on doing odd jobs such as designing advertisements or making postcards. He lived in a lodging house for poor individuals
To start off, Adolf was a pretty normal kid. He was interested in art and reading, and got good grades in elementary and middle school (but not in high school). This enraged his dad, who had conflicting opinions with Adolf and wanted him to be a civil servant, despite Adolf wanting to be an artist. In 1903 though, Alois died, leaving Hitler to follow whatever career he wanted without anyone telling him what to do. Two and a half years later, Hitler left high school at 16. From then until 1907, Hitler mostly just sat around, drawing and reading books. In 1907, he and his mother moved to Vienna, where he failed the entrance exam of the Academy of Fine Arts and lost his mother in the same year. For the next 6 years, he received the money he had inherited from his mom and his aunt, an orphan’s pension, and some money from selling a few of his paintings, and explored the city, watching symphonies and walking around and stuff.
According to The Jewish Virtual Library, Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria. He was a resentful, dishonest child. He was often grumpy, lazy, and had unpredictable dispositions. He was deeply hostile towards his strict, authoritarian father and strongly attached to his indulgent, hard-working mother, whose death from cancer in December 1908 was a shattering blow to the adolescent Hitler. Biography.com states that when Hitler was 3, His family moved from Austria to Germany. Because of his brother’s death in 1900, Hitler became detached and introverted. His father did not approve of his interest in fine art rather than business because of Hitler’s interest in art and his additional interest in German nationalism, rejecting authority of Austria-Hungary. This early interest of nationalism would eventually lead to what Hitler became famous for about two decades later.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria where he was baptized into the Catholic church. He was the son of an Austrian customs official, and dropped out of high school at age sixteen. As a young man, Hitler dreamed of being an artist. He applied to the Vienna Academy of the Arts twice and was rejected both times. He made a meager living by painting and selling postcards in Linz, Vienna, and Munich. Hitler affected Germany greatly because of his political offices. He founded the Nazi party and served as chancellor until the death of President Paul Von Hindenburg when he became the sole dictator of Germany. Hitler affected millions of people worldwide through his political and social views and actions. He was brutal, assertive, and
Though he is best known as a German Dictator, he was actually from Austria. Apparently, his childhood was not a pleasant one. His father was short-tempered with him and at times would hit him. In school, he was a poor student and took no interest in studying. He wanted to become an artist, but his father forbid it. Eventually, Hitler quit school and after his father died, he pursued his dream of becoming an artist. He applied to the Vienna Academy of Art, but he was rejected because he did not have a graduation certificate. His mother had recently died and now he painted post cards and cleared snow for a living. Accordingly, he blamed all the awful things that happened to him on the Jews; thus creating his hatred for them. In 1914, he crossed into Germany, joined the German Army, and served in World War I. He loved the thought of war, which made him an odd ball around his fellow soldiers. Nevertheless, Hitler became a corporal and was awarded The Iron Cross for his acts of bravery. Near the end of the war, Hitler had been injured during a gas attack and was hospitalized for the rest of the war. When news came of how the war ended, he was distraught. The fact that Germany had surrendered and the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were simply humiliating. Nevertheless, in 1919, Hitler discovered the German Workers Party (later known as the Nazi Party). He quickly joined the party and became its leader; thanks to his new found talent of
Born in the Austrian town of Braunau on April 20, 1889, Adolf was the fourth child of Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Hitler. By 1900, young Adolf's talents as an artist surfaced. He did well enough in school to be eligible for either the university preparatory school or the technical/scientific Realschule. Because the technical/scientific Realschule had a course in drawing, Adolf enrolled in there. Adolf suffered from frequent lung infections, and he quit school at the age of 16, partially the result of ill health, but mainly the result of poor schoolwork. In 1906, Adolf traveled Vienna to seek his fortune, but he wasn't able to get admission to any prestigious art school. Hitler spent six years there, living on a
In the small Austrian town of Braunau, a boy named Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. Young Adolf was very successful throughout elementary school and he fit in well. The Austrian boy went on to Realschule, the college preparatory school, and started to fail. He was forced to transfer to another school and by 1905, he quit preparatory school. The teenage Hitler became rebellious and refused to start a job. When he started to refuse to live a normal life, he started to live with the goal of becoming a famous artist. During this hopeless part of Hitler’s life, his mother passed away in 1907. When she died, 18 year old Hitler moved to Vienna to pursue his artistic career. He attempted to join the Academy of Fine Arts which was a popular art school at the time. With the notification of the failure of acceptance, Adolf became even more hopeless. Wandering around Vienna, Hitler barely made enough money to make a living off of painting and selling postcard. It was this part of