Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler

(1889 - 1945)

Adolf Hitler

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Vocabulary

Deceptive: Giving an appearance or impression different from the true one; misleading.

Convinced: Completely certain about something.

Destabilizing: Upset the stability of; cause unrest in.

Racian: On the grounds of or connected with difference in race.

Adolf Hitler

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Life Story

Hitler was a very smart but deceptive man his rise to power was more by force than being a favorite in Germany’s eyes until he convinced them to believe his beliefs.

Hitler came to power by destabilizing the German society by force with his gang of thugs. The German people thought they might end up back to the days of World War 2.

The NAZI party gained a number of seats in the Reichstag but were still a minor party. The president at the time, Hindenburg, unknowing of Hitler’s plans, invited Hitler to become Chancellor because he would have rather Hitler as a friend than an enemy.

When the President died in 1934, Hitler wasted no time in taking the Presidency for himself and the NAZI party. Hitler showed many signs of being corrupt, trying to wipe out an entire race being one of them.

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In Hitler’s eyes his intentions were good, many Germans also believed that what Hitler was doing was good but the rest of the world thought that his actions were completely wrong and had to be stopped.

Hitler was also motivated by his own self-interest because he craved power and wanted everyone to live like he wanted.

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Hitler as a babyEarly Years

Born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889, Hitler was the son of a fifty-two-year-old Austrian customs official, Alois Schickelgruber Hitler, and his third wife, a young peasant girl, Klara Poelzl, both from the backwoods of lower Austria.

The young Hitler was a resentful, discontented child. Moody, lazy, of unstable temperament, he was deeply hostile towards his strict, authoritarian father and strongly attached to his indulgent, hard-working mother, whose death from cancer in December 1908 was a shattering blow to the adolescent Hitler.

After spending four years in the Realschule in Linz,

he left school at the age of sixteen with dreams of

becoming a painter.

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Bad deeds

Racial discrimination. He placed people not in levels on merits but on a racial hierarchy. In that Jews were at the lowest rung.

The blue eyed, blond, handsome, nordic aryan Germans were placed at the top. Jews were indiscriminately killed in concentration camps. He established a criminal state with no freedom of speech or expression or equality.

Women were treated unequally and those who bore undesirable (handicapped, crippled, Jewish-looking) kids were punished.

Those who helped the enemies were humiliated and they suffered. He demolished democracy. Generally saying, he was like a "zoo keeper" who had supreme control over which animals lived in his zoo.

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Love story

Eva Braun was working as a model and photographer's assistant in the fall of 1929.

Hitler came to pay a visit. He was taken right away with the blonde-haired, blue-eyed 17

year old. She was also very impressed with the up-and-coming political leader even

though he was 23 years older than her.

Because of Adolf Hitler's worry about his rise to power and

the maintenance of that power, his 16-year love affair with

Eva Braun remained a closely guarded secret. It was only

after their deaths in 1945 that the relationship was revealed.

Eva Braun

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Since then, many have wondered about the woman who was companion,

consort, lover, and finally wife to one of history's most hated figure. Hitler and

Braun made an interesting pair, from the first meeting until their last moments

together, the love story provides insight into the political figure who changed the

world forever. During  World War II  they got married and within 36 hours the

couple was found dead. Braun had taken a cyanide pill, and Hitler had shot

himself in the head.

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Conversation

1) What are your views about Adolf Hitler?

2) Why do you think he hated Jews?

3) Do you think he was strict?

4) What according to you did he want to pursue in life?