April 20, 1889, Hitler was born in the small Austrian
village of
Braunau, near the border of German Bavaria. No body knew that he will once lead a movement that placed supreme importance on a person’s family tree even making it a matter of life and death. However, his own family tree was quite mixed up and would be a lifelong source of embarrassment and concern to him. It is possible that Adolf Hitler’s grandfather was Jewish. Alois his father, had always used the last name of his mother, Schicklgruber, and thus was always called Alois Schicklgruber. However, when it came time to write the name down in the record book it was spelled as Hitler even his whole life long his last name was Hiedler. And so in 1876 at age 39, Alois Schicklgruber became Alois Hitler.
By the age of 5 Adolf Hitler had gotten a sister called Paula, and he was called Adi. In May of 1895 as he was six years old, he entered first grade in the public school in the
village of
Fischlham, near Linz
Austria. The Oldest son on the Hitler faliny names Alois Jr. was beatin and had to listen to harsh words coming from own father, after a year he couldnt handle it no more and ran away from home. Adolf was 7 by that time and already in school, he was the next in fathers line. A. Hitler said himself that he was an argumentative little ring leader who liked to stay outside and hang around with ‘husky’ boys. His half brother Alois later described him as quick to anger and spoiled by his indulgent mother. One day, young Hitler went rummaging through his father’s book collection and came across several of a military nature, including a picture book on the War of 1870-1871 between the Germans and the French. By Hitler’s own account, this book became an obsession. He read it over and over, becoming convinced it had been a glorious event. “It was not long before the great historic struggle had become my greatest spiritual experience. From then on, I became more and more enthusiastic about everything that was in any was connected with war or, for that matter, with soldering.” – Hitler stated in his book Mein Kampf. Adolf was always fastinated of war, beginning in the young age. As other children played with toys and other things young Afolf played war with his friends, and as they didnt want to play no more he he went on and found new boys to play with and continue. “I thought that once my father saw what little progress I was making at the (technical school) he would let me devote myself to the happiness I dreamed of.”
— Hitler explained in Mein Kampf. There were frequent arguments at home between young Hitler and his father over his career choice. But his stubborn father refused to listen. And so a bitter struggle began between father and son. In January, 1903, Hitler’s father died suddenly of a lung hemorrhage, leaving his thirteen year old son as head of the Hitler household. German Worker’s PartySoon after the war in
Munich, Hitler was recruited to join a military intelligence unit (the Press and Propaganda Department of Group Command IV of the Reichswehr), and was assigned to keep tabs on the German Worker’s Party. He saw this party as a vehicle to reach his political ends. His blossoming hatred of the Jews became part of the organization’s political platform. Hitler built up the party, he kept attention with his smartly made speeches and his hypnosis. Following the collapse of the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler and Ludendorff were tried for treason. In recognition of his services to
Germany during the war, Ludendorff was acquitted. The conservative judges allowed Hitler to use his trial as a propaganda forum for his ideas. Hitler was convicted but sentenced to a term of only five years imprisonment at Landsberg where he would remain only 8 months. During his stay, Hitler put together the first part of his book Mein Kampf. As he came back out of prison he didn’t think about stopping, no he thought about how to resize his power and started calling for the German people to resist the yoke of Jews and Communists, and to create a new empire which would rule the world for 1,000 years. In 1924, Hitler promptly reestablished the NSDAP in
Munich. The party was organized according to the Führer principle: it was headed by the Führer, his deputy, and the national leadership with the Reichsleiter heading nation wide departments of the party. The National Socialist ideology contained several basic points: Antisemitism, nationalism, militarism, and anti-communism. Jews were racially alien to
Europe and were supposed to be the source of all European troubles, especially Communis. Second, Germany should become the strongest country in
Europe because Germans were racially superior to other Europeans and should lead everyone else, even against their will. Third, force was seen as the bottom line in all of nature and in human life. The campaign against the Jews was intensified following the adoption of the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. These laws defined a Jew as any person with at least one Jewish grandparent. Some 2.5 million Germans, in addition to the 600,000 who regarded themselves as Jews, were affected by this definition. The Nuremberg Laws deprived Jews of their rights as citizens, and Jews were barred from marrying non-Jews.
Internet Resourceshttp://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/index.htm
http://www.hitler-speeches.com/
http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/bildzeug/panoramen/
Endnotes1. Nürnberg, September 1, 1933; Völkischer Beobachter, September 2, 1933.
2.
Munich, May 1, 1923; Völkischer Beobachter, May 3, 1923.
3.
Berlin, January 30, 1942; B.B.C.
4.
Berlin, May 10, 1933; Völkischer Beobachter, May 11, 1933.
5. Kulmbach, February 5, 1928; Völkischer Beobachter, February 9, 1928.
6.
Munich, May 23, 1926; Völkischer Beobachter, May 26, 1926.
7. National Socialism (Washington United States Government Printing Office, 1943), pp. 176-77.
8. National Socialism (Washington United States Government Printing Office, 1943), pp. 195-198.
9. Ernst Forsthoff, Deutsche geschichte seit 1918 in
Dokumenten (
Stuttgart, 1938), pp. 289-90. (Trans. George L. Mosse.)
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