Biography
Adolf Hitler (April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born
German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. Hitler was Chancellor of Germany fr_om 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He was at the centre of the founding of Nazism, the start of World War
II and the Holocaust.
A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the German Workers' Party precursor of the Nazi Party, in 1919, In 1923 he attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer
Hall Putsch, in Munich. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's
imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler
gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, anti-semitism, and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi
propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third
Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. His aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe.
Hitler's foreign and domestic policies had the goal of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for the Germanic people. He directed the rearmament of Germany and the invasion of Poland by the Wehrmacht in September 1939, resulting in the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Under Hitler's rule, in 1941 German forces and their European Allies occupied most of Europe and North Africa. By 1943, Hitler's military decisions led to escalating defeats. In 1945 the Allied armies successfully invaded Germany. Hitler's supremacist and racially motivated policies resulted in the systematic murder of eleven million people, including an estimated six million Jews, and in the deaths of between 50 and 70 million people in World War II.
In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his long-time mistress, Eva Braun. On 30 April 1945, less than two days later, the two committed suicide to avoid capture by the Red
Army
German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. Hitler was Chancellor of Germany fr_om 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He was at the centre of the founding of Nazism, the start of World War
II and the Holocaust.
A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the German Workers' Party precursor of the Nazi Party, in 1919, In 1923 he attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer
Hall Putsch, in Munich. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's
imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler
gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, anti-semitism, and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi
propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third
Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. His aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe.
Hitler's foreign and domestic policies had the goal of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for the Germanic people. He directed the rearmament of Germany and the invasion of Poland by the Wehrmacht in September 1939, resulting in the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Under Hitler's rule, in 1941 German forces and their European Allies occupied most of Europe and North Africa. By 1943, Hitler's military decisions led to escalating defeats. In 1945 the Allied armies successfully invaded Germany. Hitler's supremacist and racially motivated policies resulted in the systematic murder of eleven million people, including an estimated six million Jews, and in the deaths of between 50 and 70 million people in World War II.
In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his long-time mistress, Eva Braun. On 30 April 1945, less than two days later, the two committed suicide to avoid capture by the Red
Army
Early Childhood
Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 at the Gasthof zum Pommer, an inn in Ranshofen. He was the fourth of six children to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. When Hitler was three, the family moved to Passau, Germany. There he learned to speak the distinctive lower Bavarian dialect, rather than Austrian German. In 1894 the family relocated to Leonding. His father ignored his son's desire to attend a classical high school and become an artist, so in September 1900 Alois sent Adolf to the Realschule in Linz. After his fathers death on 3 January 1903, Hitler's performance at school deteriorated and he finally left school in 1905.
World War II
When Hitler invaded Poland in September 1, 1939 that signaled the beginning of World War II. France and Britain declared war against Germny. Using blitzkrieg tactics, invasion tactics, air bombing methods and basic deception Hitler took over most of Europe in a few months. When he couldn't invade England he turned on his "ally" the USSR, taking over the eastern part of russia. Failing aslo in Russia Germany started losing battles on the western and eastern front. With the United States entering the war The Allies were able to liberate europe and finllay invade Germany. with the USSR pushing the German Army east and the Western Powers began advancing into Germany. After the Red Army broke through the last German defences Hitler and his long time mistress Eva Braun commited suicide with there bodies being burnt to avoid capture by the Russians.