The Rise and Fall of Hitler

There are few historical figures whose name can invoke such an emotional response in an average person, as Adolf Hitler, although it is almost always a response of loathing and disgust. As we all know Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany and lead his Third Reich in a war of genocide and destruction, reshaping the world in ways he did not foresee. The question is was Hitler always a mad man seeking the domination of the world, or did events in his life led to his path of destructive and violent behavior? First, Hitler’s early years were fought with many troubles and tragedy. Adolf Hitler was born Saturday April 20, 1889, to Alois Hitler his father and Klara Hitler his mother in in the Upper Austrian border town Braunau am Inn. His father was born in 1837 out of wedlock to Maria Anna Schickelgruber. His father would later change his last name from the Jewish Schickelgruber to the christen Hitler in 1876 when his father’s mother would marry Johann Georg Hitler. When Adolf was 9 years old his father would move them to Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. Adolf Hitler was a young man with but one dream at this point in his life, the dream of becoming a famous artist. Unfortunately for Adolf his father would hear of no such thing continually arguing that he should join Habsburg civil service. His father would continue to forbid Adolf’s goal of seeking a career in art all the way to his death bed in 1903. Adolf, finding himself father less at the age of 14 finally convinces his mother to let him pursue his dream of becoming an artist. Then in fall of 1907 Hitler took his entrance exam to the Vienna Academy of the Arts as his mother lay dying in her bed of breast cancer. Unfortunately for him and possibly the world he f...

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...ep despair and holed up in this bunker from there he ordered what was left of the German men to fight. Boys not yet out of high school some as young as 12 and men as old as 80 were armed and maid to fight for the last scraps of Nazi Germany. In his madness he believed that these children and elderly men would stand up to the combined might of the Russian, American, and Canadian armies marching on him. It all came to an end on April 22, 1945, when both American and Russian armies had marched all the way in to berlin. Hitler in his despair declared his third Reich a failure and said that there was nothing left but to sit and die in berlin. Then on April 30th Hitler attended his last military meeting and around 3:30 a gunshot would be heard and Hitler would be found in his bunker office making an end to the existence of a twisted man’s plight for power and destruction.