Adolf Hitler

Life and rise to power

The Life of Adolf Hitler

• 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 anti-Democratic 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 Putsch-fails

• sent to fortress Landberg to prison• <Hitler Speaking

In Prison

• Trial is a Farce

• sent to prison for 10 years-spends 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