What would it take to get you to steal a plane, fly alone over to another country that was at war with your own, parachute out of the plane, and then try to make peace with that country that was your enemy? Well, that is exactly what Rudolf Hess did. So, what happened in his life that caused him act the way he did, and what happened afterward? Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (also spelled Heß) was born on April 26, 1894 in Alexandria, Egypt. His parents, Fritz and Clara Hess, were simple merchants and probably never imagined that their eldest son would later go on to become second in the line of succession to one of the most influential dictators that ever lived, Adolf Hitler. Before all of that, his life was fairly normal. He was just another average person.
“Hess volunteered for the German Army in 1914 at the outbreak of World War One, partly to escape the control of his domineering father who had refused to let him go to a university but instead persuaded him into an unwanted career in the family business” (History Place). He fought with a unit from Bavaria in the Battle of Ypres. After being wounded twice, he changed his careers slightly, not too long after the battle previously mentioned. He transferred from being a regular foot soldier in a Bavarian unit to an airplane pilot in the German air force.
After the war, he joined an organization called the Friekorps that hired ex-soldiers to violently put down Communist uprisings in Germany. Then, Hess decided to go to college
At 6:30 in the evening of April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in the small town of Braunau-am-Inn, Austria to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. Adolf was the fourth and only living child of Alois and Klara. Prior to Adolf’s birth, his older siblings Gustav, Otto, and Ida died in their infancy. Adolf
Heinrich Himmler was born on October 7, 1900 in Munich, Germany. Born to a Roman Catholic family, his parents were his father, Joseph Gebhard Himmler, a school teacher, and his mother, Anna Maria Himmler. He had two brothers, Gebhard Ludwig Himmler and Ernst Hermann Himmler.
Adolf Hitler was born in Branau am Inn, Austria on 20th April 1889 was the fourth of 6 children to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl . Branau am Inn was a small town across the Inn River from Germany. When he was 3 years old, his family moved to Linz, Austria . He attended school in Linz and was a good student while he was studying in primary school. In high school, he was a very poor student and angered his father. As a child, he always become clashed with his father. His father hoped that he would study to become a government servant but he wanted to become an artist.
Oskar Schindler was not one to pass up an opportunity to make some money. He marched into Poland with the SS and dove head first into the black market. He soon began to make friends with the Gestapo, the secret state police, by softening them up with women, money and alcohol. His newfound connections helped him to acquire a factory, which he ran with the cheapest labor around, Jews. At first, it seemed like he was another German money-driven industrialist but somewhere along the way something changed.
Hitler was born April 20, 1889 in a small Austrian town. Throughout his childhood he did not do well in school and was
Hitler is often seen as a horrid, cruel person, but as John F. Kennedy states, he did many wonderful things for this world. Although Hitler had his way in doing the things he wanted to do, he created many new ideas that are still in use! Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria. Adolf Hitler was the fourth of six children born to Klara Hitler and Alois Hitler As a child, he was known as “Adi” and attended a Catholic church. When Hitler was three, he moved from Austria to Germany. He was then raised in Germany.
After the death of his father three years later, Reich took over the family farm until it was destroyed by the Russians in 1915. At that time he joined the Austrian Army. Upon returning from the war, Reich
Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889, and was the fourth of six children horn to his mother and father Alois Hitler, and Klara Plozl. While Hitler was a child, he clashed constantly with his very harsh father, who also didn’t approve of his sons interest in the fine arts as a career. He also showed an early
In the 1930s, there was a power shift in Germany towards the Nazi party. Oskar Schindler sensed this, and joined a local pro-Nazi group. He got involved with the military after
World War I, the first actual war played out on a global scale. During the time of the war, many people, military and civilians a like, lost their lives. However, among all of these people, one man got very lucky in the sight of death, for you see this man had been partially blinded after being exposed to mustered gas, and when when stumbling on the battle field, a British solider by the name of Henry Tandey who saw this man, took pity on him and let him go. The man that he saved was Adolf Hitler. Soon after the war ended, Hitler joined the National German Workers’ Party, which became the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), commonly know as the Nazis. The end of the war was also a very personal and emotional disaster for Hitler as well. It brought about the threat of demobilization, tearing him from the only community in which he had ever felt at home and returning him to a civilian life in which he had neither direction nor career prospects. However, the next few months would only for shadow what Hitler was going to do.
As a result of this a different viewpoint is achieved, whilst assisting Germany and the Nazis he also helped assist the UUSR with weapons. Though this source does not have a reliable stem and does not seem to be backed by any other grounded proof.
During his studies, he became liable for military service in World War II, but as a conscientious objector on moral grounds, enrolled in the Friends' Ambulance Unit. After the war, he returned to Edinburgh and became attracted to the
As a young boy, Adolf Hitler was not the most educated person, but kept strong beliefs for himself that he shared. Hitler is a well known historical figure because of the mass genocide he had caused in Germany. Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, April 20 1889 to Alois Hitler. Although, Hitler is most well known for what he did in Germany during his adult years, few people know Hitler’s rise to power in German politics.
<br>Hitler regained control of the Nazi Party upon his release in December 1924. From 1925 to 1930 Hitler built a network of local parties over most of Germany. He also organized the Schutzstaffel or the "SS", a group that performed police tasks. They carried out violent acts against Hitler's enemies. Unemployed young men who joined Hitler's groups were given food, shelter, uniforms and a sense of purpose.
(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) For a short period of time, he served for the Eleventh Bavarian Regiment as an officer cadet, although he did not experience any combat due to the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty, which ended World War I. (Jewish Virtual Library) After the signing of the treaty, Himmler’s hope of becoming a soldier was shattered, so he decided to return to school. In July of 1919, Himmler graduated from a high school in Landshut, Germany, and decided to continue his education and attend college. He enrolled at the Technical University in Munich, Germany as an agriculture major. While taking classes at Technical University, Himmler joined a German-nationalist student fraternity. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) Upon joining this fraternity, Himmler found himself questioning his Catholic ways and began to reject many of the beliefs that had been bestowed upon him by his parents and religion. (New World Encyclopedia)