Adolf Hitler is an extremely well known man due to him being the cause of the Holocaust. However, Adolf was not always a murderous man. He was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria-Hungary. He had six other siblings, although only him and his sister Paula lived to be adults. During his childhood him and his family were abused by their father Alois Hitler. He later died in 1903 when Adolf was only thirteen years old. Adolf was never good at school and dropped out at sixteen so he could apply to Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and become a painter. He applied twice with hopes of becoming famous for his water colors, but both his applications were rejected. His mother, Klara Polzl, died in 1908 due to breast cancer when Adolf was nineteen years old. In …show more content…
Germany was still fighting Britain in the spring of 1941 when Hitler made the decision to invade the Soviet Union using Operation Barbarossa. The operation was at first successful, however it was stalled by a harsh winter storm. During the year of 1941, Hitler’s military leaders did not agree with everything their Fuhrer was doing. He ordered them to massacre, brutalize, and exterminate certain races. His view of the German conquest dominated the military decisions that were made, forcing troops to stay in battle because they were not allowed to lose to an inferior race. This all led to Hitler ordering Jews to be tortured and forced into labor. During this time, the German territories were occupied by 63 percent of Jews. Hitler called the mass killings of this race “The Final Solution.” Millions of people, majority of them Jewish, were sent to concentration camps like Auschwitz. They were starved, beaten, and gassed. Some had attempted suicide, “Sachsenburg, another Saxon camp, witnessed at least 35 suicide attempts” (Goeschel 631). In another concentration camp, Buchenwald, “many inmates ran into the barbed wire or exposed themselves to the guards firing at them” (Goeschel 633). The mistreatment of the prisoners “was condoned, and that the Nazis. . . preferred to let them die a result of factors they could describe as “natural” such as poor health, physical weakness or breaches in discipline “justify …show more content…
The following day he married longtime girlfriend Eva Braun. On April 30, 1945 Hitler, Eva, and Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, locked themselves in the bunker. Hitler gave his dog poison pills and gave some to his secretaries. He then went into a private room with Eva where he shot himself in the head while she died of poison. Goebbels burned their bodies and took poison himself, but only after giving it to his six children who were also in the bunker. Their bodies were found on May 2, 1945 and five days later Germany surrendered ending the
Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889 to Klara and Alois Hitler in a small town in Austria called Braunau. Braunau was located about 65 miles from munich and about 30 miles north from Salzburg. Adolf grew up not having as much money as they would like but still made it work with what they had. Adolfs dad, Alois Hitler was a mid- level customs worker while his mom did not have a job so she could take care of the children. He had five siblings, but only one survived childhood due to illnesses and lack of medicine. Paula Hitler, his sister was the only sibling that survived childhood while Gustav, Ida, Otto, and Edmund. Besides them, he did have a stepbrother named Alois and step-sister named Angela from his father's previous marriages. His father had two marriages before Adolf was born. Adolf’s father was fifty-one when he had him, and died when Adolf was only thirteen. Adolfs mom, Klara had died of breast cancer in 1908 (Early Years).
Adolf Hitler came into power of Germany in 1934. Wanting power, land and revenge, Hitler gets troops ready to attack. Hitler was a troop in WWI for Germany. Once the Germans lost the war, Hitler took that personally, and wanted revenge. After coming into power with his army of Nazis, Hitler is quick to blame Jewish people for all the harsh debt and corruption in Germany. The Germans believe him, causing them to hate Jewish people. The holocaust happened throughout 1933-1945, it ended when Hitler killed himself.
Hitler was born in April of 1889 to a saddened mother. He was the youngest of several children who had all died in their youth, and this great loss had taken a great toll on both of his parents. Adolph's father was an elderly man who did not involve himself in his son's life and died when Adolph was still a young boy. Klara Hitler, on the other hand, played a larger role in Adolph's life as he became and artist. So it was a tragic blow for the young man when his mother died of cancer in 1907. Despite this terrible event, Hitler applied to the prestigious Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, where he was denied. Undettered, Hitler reapplied soon after, but was not accepted.
Hitler's Aims and Actions as the Cause of World War II When considering the reasons for the outbreak of war in 1939 it is easy to place the entire blame on Hitler’s aggressive foreign policy in the late 1930s. One British historian, writing a few years after the end of the war, claimed that ‘the Second World War was Hitler’s personal war, in that he intended it, he prepared for it, he chose the moment for launching it.’ In this assignment it is my intention to show that Hitler’s foreign policy was a major factor in causing the conflict but that other reasons, both long term and short term, need to be recognised as well. Probably the first factor that need considering is the Treaty of Versailles, of 1919.
Support for the Nazi party was due to the growing belief that it was a
The Holocaust is one of the most horrifying crimes against humanity. "Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme." (Bauer, 58) One of his main methods of exterminating these ‘undesirables' was through the use of concentration and death camps. In January of 1941, Adolf Hitler and his top officials decided to make their 'final solution' a reality. Their goal was to eliminate the Jews and the ‘unpure' from the entire population. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp that carried out Hitler's ‘final solution' in greater numbers than any other.
Nazi belief, and murder of the Jews a key policy. 2 German laws made by Hitler soon required everyone who had one or more Jewish grandparent to register. Those with one grandparent may have escaped but if you had two grandparents you were sent to a concentration camp and classifed as a Jew. One night symbolizing the begining of mass persecution was Kristallnacht, November 10th, 1938, "the night of broken glass". Jewish stores and houses were attacked, synagogues burned, and many Jews were sent to concentration camps. During this time, there were a few countries that would accept Jews. Hitler launched World War 2 by marching into Poland in 1939. Most of Western Europe then fell into the Führer (Hitler), who had personal command of the troops. Germany invaded the soviet Union in 1941, but Hitler, Crazed with power, had lost his military judgement. His failure to Capture Stalingrad, 1942 - 1943, was the turning point; unable to cope with defeat, he refused to recognize it or negotiate for peace. As the tide of war turned against him, his mass annhiliation of Jews, socialists, gypsies, and others was excelerated. After the Second World War had began in 1939, the Nazi's dropped all restrictions they had previously made towards the systematic murder of all Jews. In countries such as Europe, steps were made for Jews to follow in order to be seperated from the rest of the population. First Jews were required to register, then they were known to the Gestapo. Some families sent their children to live with christian families and live under an assumed identity. Hitler sent The Jews of Poland to live in poverty stricken ghettos where they were exposed to disease and malnutrition. With the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, the Nazi policy of murder began to operate with no restrictions. The armies in Russia were followed by an "extermination squad" who shot hundreds of thousands of people, the majority being Jewish. The Nazis had already setup thousands of concentration camps to imprison anyone who imposed them. These now began to operate as factories of death. Auschwitz was the biggest of these death camps, a city of barricks where hundreds of thousands of people starved to death amid indescribable brutality. At it's center stood gas chambers and creamatoria design to take train loads of human beings, gas them and burn them.
In 1933, Europe was going through a major change and not just the countries as a whole, but the minorities such as the Jews as well. In Germany Adolf Hitler, who was the leader of the National Socialist Workers Society (also known as the Nazi Party), was elected chancellor on January 30, 1933. On July 14, 1933, only 7 months after Hitler’s election, the Nazi Party became the only legal political party in Germany. Any known rebels would later be severely punished. Hitler was a very persuasive speaker, which made it easy for him to blame the Jews for many things. He began by blaming Jews for the economy crash that had happened in Europe at the time. Jews were fine on their financial ends and striving in business. Also at the time The Black Death was occurring. Many Europeans were dying for unexplained reasons whereas the Jews seemed to be healthier. These two factors made it very easy for Hitler to convince the German people that Jews were the center of their problems. He later moved on to other minorities as well claiming that the only good race was the Aryan race. Hitler even published a newspaper called the Der Strümer in which he would publish cartoons making funny of Jews and print at the bottom “Jews are our misfortune”. Things were changing in Germany under Hitler’s rule and not in a good way.
The aftermath of the Holocaust left over six million Jews perished and the survivors in pain and anguish, each of their lives impacted forever by reliving the horrid events of this unspeakable tragedy every day. They needed to pick up the pieces to continue living by fleeing to different countries, assimilating into new cultures, and beginning new families to create happy memories. This being challenging for many of them, forced some of the survivors to suppress their emotions about the past in order to accomplish these newer lives while others to talk about it frequently. Each of them had their own methods to cope with the affects and thoughts they had after the Holocaust; their methods having its own advantages and disadvantages. This goes to show that the Holocaust survivors were affected more than ones mind
The Holocaust was a tragic time period. Many innocent people where killed just because of there religon. The reason why the Holocaust started was because of a terrible souless man. His name Adolf Hitler. He started this because he thought different people were the reason why the German goverment failed and surrendered in World War I (WWI). Before he became a crazy man he was an artist. He applied at a school in Italy and twice he got denied both time. He was actually a pretty good artist. Then he joined the Nazi party of Germany. Then him and some people tried to over throw the goverment and they failed and he was sent to prison. In prison he wrote a book called my struggle. Then they let him out of jail really early. He became Chancler of Germany. He was second in power. So he made some laws that would make the Dictator. He was the Big man on campus. He got many supporters that supported his cause. He was a great speach giver. Then he began to invade a boarding country. The country was Poland. The main reason he invaded Poland was because Poland was filled with Jewish people and the country was Communist. Then he started making these terrible camps that he sent the undesirables. The Undesriable were the people who Hitler thought were the reason why the German goverment failed. He made these terriable camps. They sent you there either to die or work. The people who were sent to these were treated horribaly and they bunched up many people in small places to sleep and barely get food. Then the Germans started invading more countries so they started a pact with Japan and Italy. The pact said that they would halp eachother with anything political, milatary, or economical. Those three countries both wanted to rule there part of the wor...
Hitler’s plans for Germany were both meaningless and cruel. His first goal was to establish what he thought was the ‘supreme’ race, Aryan. Aryan people are tall and skinny, with blonde hair, blue eyes, and light skin (FYI: Hitler had none of these characteristics, and rumor has it that his grandmother was Jewish.). Every other person was not considered human to him, especially Jewish people. Hitler hated Jewish people the most because he thought that because of their beliefs and living style they lost World War I. Also according to Hitler, Jews were maggots, parasites, vampire spiders sucking blood, and vermin. Hitler thought it was not enough to only eliminate the ‘enemies’ of the Aryan race, but they also needed space to live. This is when his second goal came into play. He started relocating them, starving them, shutting down their shops and many more things. The worst part was that he lied to them when he said they were relocating them, he was really taking them to concentration camps.
It is estimated that approximately eleven-million people were murdered during the holocaust. Of these eleven-million people around six million of them were Jewish. Jewish people were not the only ones Adolf Hitler was targeting; Hitler persecuted Jehovah 's Witnesses, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the mentally challenged. Hitler wanted to achieve absolute ethnic and racial purity in the country, so if you were anything other than what he considered to be perfect(blonde hair and blue eyed) you were not accepted by him and faced the chance of being killed. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party and of Germany, from 1921-1945. He also was a soldier in World War One and joined the German Workers Party. Mass shootings were
The Holocaust, the mass killing of the Jewish people in Europe, is the largest genocide in history to this date. Over the course of the Holocaust nearly six million Jewish people were killed by the Nazi Party and Germany led by Adolf Hitler. There are multiple contributing factors to the Holocaust that made it so large in scope. Historians argue which of these factors were most significant. The most significant contributing factor is the source of the Holocaust, the reason it occurred. This source is Adolf Hitler and his hatred for Jewish people. In comparison to the choices of the Allies to not accept Jewish refugees and to not take direct military action to end the Holocaust, the most significant contributing factor of the Holocaust is that Adolf Hitler was able to easily rise to power with the support of the German people and rule Germany.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria. Actually, his real name is Adolphus Heidler. While in his childhood it was very noticeable that he was a leader. He was also very pampered by his mother Klara. He loved her dearly and was very devastated about her lose to breast cancer in 1903. His father on the other hand was disliked and respected by his son. When his death occurred in 1907, Hitler wasn't nearly as disappointed in his death than as his mothers. Adolf had a total of 7 brothers and sisters. Hitler's religion was German Catholic but later in his life he would become anti-Jew.
The invasion of the Soviet Union did call in order for the mass killing, but it was motivated because of the strong Nazi army during the invasion. In a 1939 speech, Hitler says, “the result will not be the bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!” (Hitler 131). Although, Jews in Germany were not murdered in 1939 and Hitler’s objective to remove all Jews was not fully formed, the thought of murdering the Jews was intact for Germany’s future plans. It is not possible for Jewish ‘cleansing’ to be an unplanned response to circumstances and benefits that arose for Germany as Hitler’s motivation has always been to murder the entire race of Jews for the ‘better’ Germany.