Adolf Hitler- Potted Biography essays

Adolf Hitler- Potted Biography essays Adolf Hitler was the Fuhrer (leader) of the Nazi Germany, the instigator of World War 2 and the driving force behind the attempt to exterminate European Jewry, otherwise know as the Final Solution or the Holocaust. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 at Braunau - am - Inn, Austria, Hungary. He was the third son of Alois and Klara Hitler. His father moved them to Linz, where Hitler attended school. He did well in the school in the beginning, but progressively worsened. When Hitler was 14 his father died. Five years later his mother also past away. The death of his mother persuaded him to move to Vienna, where he twice attempted to enter the Academy for Art, failing both times. Between 1909 and 1913 Hitler moved from one lowly job to another - copying and peddling picture postcards, drawing up advertisement and painting and decorating houses. Hitler was German and being a failure in Vienna, a city full of Slavs and Jews, many not failures, filled him with jealousy, resentment, frustration and rage. In 1913 Hitler moved to Munich, Germany and was still there when war broke out in 1914. Hitler enlisted in the German army and saw four years of frontline service. He was a devoted soldier and in 1918 he was promoted to the rank of corporal and awarded the Iron Cross (First Class). Just before the end of the war, he was temporarily blinded by a British gas attack near Ypres. After recovery, he served as an intelligence agent for military authorities, in the course of which he attend the German Workers Party in 1919. He later joined the party, became its leader and changed its name to the National Socialist Party, later called the Nazi party. In 1920, the 25 points of the Nazi Party were proclaimed, one of which was called for the removal of Jews from German Society. The Nazis were thwarted in November 1923 when they tried to seize power by force. Hitler was sentenced to five years prison. It was at this time when he started his book Mei ...