Hitlers+Rise+to+Power

JAKE BRUCHET media type="youtube" key="J3YRWhg4YaA" height="150" width="262" Little Bit of comic relief prior to reading **Beginnings** Hitler was one of the most powerful leaders of all time, but all for the wrong reasons. His rise power was triumphant, but when he took control, the world was a gruesome place. **(1889-1918)** At 6:30 p.m. on the evening of **April 20**, **1889,** he was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria. Adolf Hitler would one day 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. Hitler had pretty much a normal childhood besides his fathers death, but nothing out of the ordinary, he attended school regularly.
 * ** Contents **
 * -Beginnings **
 * -1889-1918 **
 * -1919-1933 ** ||

In the Spring of **1906**, at age seventeen, Hitler took his first trip to Vienna, capital city of the empire and one of the world's most important centers of art, music and old-world European culture. With money in his pocket provided by his mother, he went there intending to see operas and study the famous picture gallery in the Court Museum. Instead, he found himself enthralled by the city's magnificent architecture. Hitler had developed a big interest in architecture. As a young boy he had shown natural talent for drawing. His gift for drawing had also been recognized by his high school instructors. But things had gone poorly for him in high school. He was a lazy and uncooperative student, who essentially flunked out. To escape the reality of that failure and to avoid one day working for something he didnt enjoy. He decided to attend the prestigious Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In **October 1907**, at age eighteen, he withdrew his inheritance money from the bank and went to live and study in Vienna. Hitler's mother was by now suffering from breast cancer and had been unsuccessfully operated on in January. But Hitler's driving ambition to be a great artist overcame his reluctance to leave her. He took the two day entrance exam for the academy's school of painting. Confident and self assured, he awaited the result, quite sure he would get in. But failure struck him like a bolt of lightning. His test drawings were judged unsatisfactory and he was not admitted. Hitler was badly shaken by this rejection. He went back to the academy to get an explanation and was told his drawings showed a lack of talent for artistic painting, notably a lack of appreciation of the human form. He was told, however, that he had some ability for the field of architecture. But without the required high school diploma, going to the building school and after that, the academy's architectural school, seemed doubtful **1907**Hitlers mother eventually dies from malignant breast cancer, but Hitlers heart is more focused on school in Vienne. **1908 October** Hitler attempts again to get accepted into the arts school, but fails again. Through the years **1909-1912** he had given up on his dream and was left homeless travelling soup kitchen to homeless shelter and on, waiting for his opurtunity to excel. **1913** Hitler leaves Austria to avoid military service and he establishes a home in Munich. In Munich, Hitler continued painting, once again making a small living by selling painted pictures of landmarks to local shops. When asked by an old acquaintance how he would make a permanent living, Hitler said it did not matter since there soon be a war. On **August 1st**, **1914**, a huge, enthusiastic crowd including Hitler gathered in a big public plaza in Munich – the occasion – to celebrate the German proclamation of war. Two days later, Hitler volunteered for the German Army, enlisting in a Bavarian regiment. He proved to be an able and brave soldier as a dispatch runner, winning the Iron Cross (First Class) on two occasions. He was also wounded twice, and four weeks before the war ended suffered a gas attack which temporarily blinded and hospitalised him. It was here he learnt of Germany’s surrender, which he took as a betrayal. He especially hated the Treaty of Versailles. In **October 1918**, he was temporarily blinded by a British chlorine gas attack near Ypres. He was sent home to a starving, war weary country full of unrest. He laid in a hospital bed consumed with dread amid a swirl of rumors of impending disaster. On **November 10,** **1918,** an elderly pastor came into the hospital and announced the news. The Kaiser and the House of Hollenzollern had fallen. Their beloved Fatherland was now a republic. The war was over. Hitler is very enraged about the war, and feels very bitter about the "stab in the back" from his country. After the war Hitler works as a spy for the Wiemer Government to spot political threats. **(1919-1933)** Economic hardship was coupled with humiliation as a result of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Right Wing groups gained popularity by saying that they would not adhere to it’s terms. In **1919** HItler joins the German workers party and in **1920** he becomes the leader of the Nazi party. In the **1920s** the German people had lost their faith in their parties and they had suffered great hardships and were soon to be hit by the great depression in **1929.** Hitler was a great speaker and motivator and he rallyed a group together to attack the govenment he called it the beer hall putsch. Which eventually lead him to jail. While in Jail Hitler wrote the novel "Mai kamf" (My struggle) When Hitler was released from Jail he gained more support and his book become more popular and more support, and when Hidenburg died. there was no other choice, but to elect Hitler as Chancelor in **1933.** Hitler was a strong, firm leader just what they people of the country needed. Hitler was a very smart man, and came to power in a legal way, but he has forever left History tarnished with the blood of millions of Jewish people. media type="youtube" key="W0eyxlRGo5Y" height="227" width="294"

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