Hitler BackStory by Liza Milena

http://www.biography.com/people/adolf-hitler-9340144#synopsis

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Hitler Was

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3 years old when they moved from Austria to Germany.

Adolf Hitler

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Was born in Branau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889.

Edmond

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With the death of his younger brother Edmond, in 1900 Adolf became detached and introverted.

Alois Hitler

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Was his father and did not approve of his interest in fine art rather than business. Alois Hitler sudennly died in 1903.

Dropping Out

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Two years later, his mother allowed him to drop out of school

Fine Arts

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Hitler applied to the Academy of Fine Arts twice, and was rejected both times.

WWI

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Hitler applied to serve in the German army and was accepted in August 1914.

Klara Hitler

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Adolf's mother who died in 1908 leaving him homless on the streets of Vienna.

Notoriety

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Hitler soon gained notoriety for his speeches against the Treaty of Versailles, rival politicians, Marxists and Jews.

After World War I

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Hitler returned to Munich and continued to work for the military as an intelligence officer.

Anton Drexler

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Drexler invited Hitler to join the DAP in 1919.

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei

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To make the name more appealing DAP changed its name (NSDAP). Hitler personally designed the party banner

Chairman NSDAP

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In 1921, Hitler replaced Drexler as NSDAP party chairman.

Ernst Rohm~Army Captain

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One of the early followers. The head of the Nazi paramilitary organization, the Sturmabteilung (SA). The SA protected meetings and frequently attacked political opponents.

On November 8, 1923

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Hitler and the SA stormed a public meeting of 3,000 people at a large beer hall in Munich. He announced a national revolution and declared a formation of a new government.

LONDON I BETTER GET MY CUPCAKES!!!!!

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Hitler was arrested

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Three days later and tried for treason. He served a year in prison

Rudolf Hess

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While in prison he dedicated most of the first volume of Mein Kampf ("My Struggle") to his deputy,

Mein Kampf

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Mainly laid out Hitler's plan for transforming German society into one based on race.

End Of Early Years

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EARLY YEARS

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Rise to Power

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In 1932

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Hitler ran against Paul von Hindenburg for presidency

After Hitler Loses

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Hindenburg agreed to appoint Hitler as chancellor, to create political balance

Enabling Act-Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich

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Gave his cabinet full legislative powers for a period of four years and allowed deviations from the constitution.

On July 14, 1933

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Hitler's Nazi Party was declared the only legal political party in Germany.

Night of the Long Knives

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Took place from June 30 to July 2, 1934. Ernst Röhm and other SA leaders, along with a number of Hitler's political enemies, were rounded up and shot.

August 1934

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Cabinet had enacted a law abolishing the office of president and combining its powers with those of the chancellor, a day before Hindenburg's death.

October 14, 1933

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Germany withdrew from the League of Nations, and Hitler announced a massive expansion of Germany’s armed forces.

Social reform measures

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Hitler promoted anti-smoking campaigns across the country. He encouraged all Germans to keep their bodies pure of any intoxicating or unclean substance.

Racial Hygiene

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New laws banned marriage between non-Jewish and Jewish Germans, and deprived "non-Aryans" of the benefits of German citizenship.

Early Eugenic Practices

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Targeted children with physical and developmental disabilities, and later authorized a euthanasia program for disabled adults.

World War II

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Munich Agreement

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In 1938, Hitler, along with several other European leaders, signed the Munich Agreement. This agreement permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia.

In 1940

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Hitler invaded Scandinavia as well as France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium.

Axis powers

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Germany’s formal alliance with Japan and Italy was signed to stop the United States from supporting and protecting the British.

On June 22, 1941

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Hitler violated a non-aggression pact with Joseph Stalin, sending 3 million German troops into the Soviet Union. This invasion failed.

On December 7, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii

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Hitler was now at war against a coalition that included Britain, the U.S, and the Soviet Union. Hitler's military judgment became increasingly erratic. Germany's military and economic position deteriorated along with Hitler's health.

Late 1942

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German forces failed to seize the Suez Canal. The German army also suffered defeats at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Kursk.

The Battle of Stalingrad

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Was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the south-western Soviet Union.

Battle of Kursk

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Was a World War II engagement between German and Soviet forces on the EasternFront near Kursk(450 kilometres or 280 miles southwest of Moscow) in the Soviet Union during July and August 1943.

On June 6, 1944

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The Western Allied armies landed in northern France. D-Day

Death and Legacy

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On April 29, 1945

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Hitler married his girlfriend, Eva Braun.

Hitler was informed of the assassination of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini

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Afraid of falling into the hands of enemy troops, Hitler and Braun committed suicide the day after their wedding, on April 30, 1945.

Berlin fell

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On May 2, 1945

On May 7, 1945,

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Five days later, Germany surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.

The End

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Hitler's political program had brought about a world war, leaving behind a devastated and impoverished Eastern and Central Europe, including Germany. His policies inflicted human suffering on an unprecedented scale and resulted in the death of an estimated 40 million people, including about 27 million in the Soviet Union. Hitler's defeat marked the end of a phase of European history dominated by Germany, and the defeat of fascism. A new ideological global conflict, the Cold War, emerged in the aftermath of World War II.

The Holocaust

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Between 1939 and 1945, Nazis and their collaborators were responsible for the deaths of 11 million to 14 million people, including about 6 million Jews, representing two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe.

LIZA MCNAIR & SIMONE BAILEY

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