Transcript Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler
Life and rise to power
The Life of Adolf Hitler
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Born 1889 died 1945
born in Brunau, Upper Austria
father-minor customs official
mother-Bavarian
in his Youth-loved Art and
Music
drops out of Secondary
Education
Vienna Academy of Arts rejects
him
<Hitler as a young man
Hitler’s Report Card
Hitler 1906-1913
• Supports himself selling prints,
postcards, hanging wallpaper
• While in Vienna-absorbs the
characteristics of the lower
middle class
• intense anti-Semitism, fear of
Socialism, German nationalism
(sacred German Blood and Soil
as preached by Richard
Wagner)-Aryan Race
• <Hitler Art Work
• Richard Wagner’s Opera
Migration to Germany
• World War I-enlists in a
Bavarian Regiment
• decorated for bravery twice
• promoted to Lance Corporal
(Private First Class in US
Army)
• becomes the 7th member of the
ultranationalist and antiDemocratic German Workers
Party-renamed The Nationalist
Socialist German Workers(Nazi)
• Hitler in WWI
Leader of the Party
• Great orator especially with
War veterans, Nationalist who
hated the Weimar Republic who
were blamed for the treaty
• Origins of the Nazi Party• along military lines-Storm
Troopers-Brown Shirts
• 1923-attempts to seize control
of the Bavarian Government in
Munich-The Beer Hall Putschfails
• sent to fortress Landberg to
prison
• <Hitler Speaking
In Prison
• Trial is a Farce
• sent to prison for 10 yearsspends 9 months there
• while in prison, dictates to
Rudolph Hess-Mein Kampf
(My Struggle)
• outlines the program for
German restoration and
domination of Europe
• while in jail-Nazi power
declines-economic difficulties
• 1923-1929-he extends party
through Germany
The Depression and beyond
• 1929-Depression hits
• refuels the fire
• the Nazi rise in Reichstag to
near majority
• Nazi constantly disrupted and
shut down
• 1932-Hitler is defeated by
<Paul von Hindenburg for
Presidential Elections
• Chancellors-von Poppen and
von Schliecher couldn’t cope
with unemployment, street
clashes between Nazis and
communists
Hitler takes power
• January 30, 1933
• Hitler appointed Chancellor
• gets unprecedented powers
from Reichstag
• begins organization of a
Totalitarian regime-The Third
Reich (The Third Empire)
• 1934-von Hindenburg dies
• Hitler combines Reichpresident
and Chancellor positions to
become Der Fuhrer
• <Hitler at Nuremburg