Adolf Hitler Essay

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Recommended: Chapter 16 world war 2 world history

Rene Mendoza
History 2
Professor Miller
6 may 2014
Adolf Hitler: The Man, The Myth, The Monster
World War II is the last large scale war in the history of the world. It changes the course of many things that are still around today and have caused many things. This war single handedly let the United States into a world power and it also reshaped the map of Europe and shifted the political powers of the world. A handful of people were responsible for this war but the main figure that stands out during period of the Second World War is Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was of course the Supreme Ruler or Fuhrer of Germany. he was the cause of the Second World War when he invaded Poland on September 1st 1939 and also was the main figurehead of the Axis Powers. Not only did he create one of the largest armies of the modern era he also had one of the largest empires of the modern empire with his empire stretching from France all the way to the Soviet Union. Although he live to only 56 years old he had a very eventful life and in only 11 years change the shape of the world. His life takes many unexpected turns of events but all these events will lead him to take over central Europe and be one of the key figures in modern history. This is the story of his life from his childhood to his young adult life to his rise to Fuhrer and his eventual death.
Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 at Salzburger Vorstadt Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, a town on the border with Bavaria, Germany. To Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl When Hitler was three, the family moved to Passau, Germany. There he acquired the lower Bavarian dialect, rather than Austrian German, which has been in his speech for the rest of his life. In 1895 his family relocated to a small lan...

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... 1 April, Hitler was sentenced to five years' imprisonment at Landsberg Prison. There, he received friendly treatment from the guards, and he was allowed mail from supporters and regular visits by party comrades. The Bavarian Supreme Court issued a pardon, and he was released from jail in December 1924, against the state prosecutor's objections. Including time on remand, Hitler had served just over one year in prison. While at Landsberg, Hitler dictated most of the first volume of Mein Kampf (My Struggle) to his deputy, Rudolf Hess. The book was an autobiography and description of his ideas. The book laid out Hitler's plans for transforming German society into one based on race. Some passages implied genocide. Published in two volumes in 1925 and 1926, it sold 228,000 copies between 1925 and 1932. One million copies were sold in 1933, Hitler's first year in office.

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