For this week's blog, do some research on the life of Hitler. Notice his early struggles and his rise to controlling Germany by the 1930s.
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1) Create a 10 point timeline of Hitler's life that you think covers the most significant events in his life that lead him from being a WW1 soldier to leader of Germany. Each point should have a date and a brief explanation of what happened in his life at that time. This section must be at least 100 words.
2) Write a 100 word paragraph answering this question: "What was it about Hitler's personality and/or ideas that allowed him to gain as much power as he did over the German people?".
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ReplyDelete*Hitler was born on April 20th 1889. Born in Braunau am Inn, Austria. 4th of 6 children. Adolf Hitler's grandfather was Jewish.
*Hitler's father dies at adobe 13; his father died from a lung hemorrhage, his father had left the Hitler family fairly well provided for.
*In school Hitler was a nervous, awkward boy, who spent most of his time reading and drawing. Hitler had poor grades in mathematics and French, he behaved badly. Hitler performed pranks and practical jokes aimed at the teachers he disliked.
*1906 Hitler admired Lueger, a powerful politician, for his speech making skills and use of propaganda in gaining popularity. He studied Lueger carefully and modeled some of his later behavior.
*On January 14, 1907 Hitler's mother died from breast cancer.
*1909 Hitler moved to Vienna with the goal of attending the art academy and becoming a great artist.
*Hitler served in WWI, On October 7, 1916, Hitler's was wounded in the leg by a shell fragment during the Battle of the Somme. He blamed the Jews of this and saw them as conspiring to spread unrest and undermine the German war effort.
*1919 Hitler joins the Germans’ workers party.
*1921 becomes leader of the Nazis party.
*1933 concentration camps are open.
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Hitler's personality allowed him to gain the power over the Germans by the way that he talked which was manipulative and he had a personality of leadership. Hitler made empty promises, that didn’t make a change, he believed in the conspiracy theory of Jewish people destroying the Germans. Hitler promised that he could restore the law and bring things back to order. The way he would do that is using his political party Nazis, at a time the Nazis were actually banned and Hitler had to serve jail time, the reason why they were banned is because they tried to overthrow the government. Many people believed that WWI could have been won if the army wasn’t destroyed by politicians and protesters, this led Hitler into believing that the fault of all the Great Depression and losing WWI was the Jews. Hitler would consult with anti-Semitic people, this where people who were hostile to or prejudiced against Jews. Sadly many Germans including Hitler viewed Jews as outsiders. Hitler's crowd increased as the Jews became successful. The Germans feared that they would be overthrown. In Hitler's younger days he studied people that were very good at propaganda such as Lueger. He was a politician who he strongly agreed with.(Anti-Semitic) Hitler had a sad past he had a pattern in his life of things going wrong which lead him into always being sad, depressed, fearful and angry. I believe that this lead him to hating people and blaming others. Both of his parents died when he was young and he struggled in school because he was lazy and acted like he didn’t care. Hitler begin to practice bad deeds on other people, such as his teachers. He would prank them and make fun of them when they were really trying to help him. Hitler said he first became an anti-Semite in Vienna, which had a large Jewish community, including Orthodox Jews who had fled the pogroms in Russia. (Age 16) Two years later his mother died from breast cancer he blamed the doctor, Edward Bloch, who was Jewish. Hitler without knowing killed parts of his ancestors because his grandfather was Jew.
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Adolf Hitler was boring in Austria on April 20, 1889.
ReplyDeleteHitler was a very awkward boy growing up when he was 13 his father died.
January 14,1907 Hitlers mother died from breast cancer
Hitler loved drawing growing up and that is how he would spend most of his time growing up.
Hitler started showing traits of loneliness and secretiveness that would end up characterizing his later on traits for life.
In 1913 Hitler moved to Munich. Was screened for the Austrian military in 1914.
Hitler was deployed in October 1914 to Belgium
Hitler was rewarded with second class in December 1914
Rewarded the iron cross, first class in August 1918
He found that discipline and comradeship satisfying.
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Adolf Hitler had a rough time it seemed growing up and with all that it made him be the man he was growing up. When Hitler went to war for the very first time it was said that because of the experience that made him love war and leadership. Hitler was smart and he knew he was and he used that to win people over with his ideas and plans. He had so much hatred built up in him and he knew how to fight and Adolf Hitler used that to help him get to his role in leadership . (100)
10 facts
ReplyDeleteHe got into politics between 1909-1913.
He entered the military service for the Habsburg Empire in 1913.
He’s from Austria but moves to Germany for the military and his fathers small fortune 1913.
World War 1 started and Hitler voluntarily joined the 16th Barvarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 1914.
He gets into politics and started talking to the troops about nationalism and anti-socialism, which furthered his skills 1919.
He was discharged from the army and changed the name to National Socialist German Workers Party, Nazi for short. Also criticizes the people who signed the Treaty of Versailles 1920.
Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi Party 1921.
The Nazi Party has grown from 14 to 107 representatives 1930.
Hitler becomes a German and is now about to run for President, his campaign was “Hitler over Germany” 1932.
Germany withdraws from League of Nations and doesn’t care for the Treay of Versailles 1933. (154)
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One of the main reason that I think that people thought he was good was because he knew what he talking about. He was in control of Germany and what he wanted to do. He was racist towards Jews and other Germans that he thought would be bad for Germany. So he set up Concentration Camps and tortured them for being different. He took control over when he and Germany behind him invaded Poland. He was a controlled leader. But it came back to killed him later on in his life. He was very persuasive too. Somethings he said would be like one thing but it turns out to be another thing. (112)
April 20, 1889 - Hitler was born and his family was really poor
ReplyDeleteJanuary 3, 1903- The death of his father when Adolf was 13, releases the pressure on him to get a job working for the civil service, Adolf is able to pursue his preferred choice of study, that of art.
1907- Hitler moves to Vienna with the aim of attending the Vienna Academy of Art, but his application is rejected. Without any means of money, Hitler struggles to survive in Vienna, living in a men’s hostel.
1913-Faced with military service for the Habsburg Empire, Hitler takes action to evade this by moving to Munich in Southern Germany.
1914-At the outbreak of the First World War, Hitler volunteers for service in the German army and joined the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment.
1920-Hitler is discharged from the army. In the German Workers Party, he undertakes responsibility for publicity and propaganda. He changes the party’s name to the National Socialist German Workers Party, (or Nazi for short)
1921- Hitler challenges Anton Drexler to become the leader of the Nazi party. After initial resistance, Drexler agrees and Hitler becomes the new leader of the party.
1923- Hitler and 2000 Nazi’s march through Munich to the Beer Hall, Hitler is captured and sent to jail
1925- Hitler re-founds the Nazi party.
1932-Hitler becomes a German citizen—enabling him to stand in the Presidential election against Hindenburg.
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The worldwide economic depression had hit the country hard, and millions of people were out of work. Still on the minds of many was Germany's humiliating defeat fifteen years earlier during World War I, and Germans lacked confidence in their weak government, known as the Weimar Republic. These conditions provided the chance for the rise of a new leader, Adolf Hitler, and his party, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazi party for short. Hitler was a powerful speaker who attracted a wide following of Germans desperate for change. He promised the a better life and a new and glorious Germany. The Nazis appealed especially to the unemployed, young people, and members of the lower middle class. (Word Count: 118)
Timeline:
ReplyDelete•“Deployed in October 1914 to Belgium, Hitler served throughout the Great War and won two decorations for bravery”
•“He was hit in the leg during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and temporarily blinded by a British gas attack near Ypres in 1918”
•“Hitler came to believe the country’s devastating defeat could be attributed not to the Allies, but to insufficiently patriotic “traitors” at home—a myth that would undermine the post-war Weimar Republic and set the stage for Hitler’s rise.”
•“1920 he left the army and took charge of its propaganda efforts.-nazi party”
•“By the end of 1921, Hitler led the growing Nazi Party, capitalizing on widespread discontent with the Weimar Republic and the punishing terms of the Versailles Treaty.”
•“Tried for treason, Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison”(but only served 9 months)
•“Hitler built up Nazi support among German conservatives, including army, business and industrial leaders.”(during the Great Depression)
•“On March 23, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, giving full powers to Hitler and celebrating the union of National Socialism with the old German establishment (i.e., Hindenburg).”
•“On September 15, 1935, passage of the Nuremberg Laws deprived Jews of German citizenship,”(and every bit of freedom they had of being a human)
•“April 28-29, Hitler married Eva Braun in the Berlin bunker. After dictating his political testament, Hitler shot himself in his suite on April 30; Braun took poison. Their bodies were burned according to Hitler’s instructions.”(247)
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While Germany was in their weak state of being in defeat from WW1, Hitler seized the opportunity to go into power. To the people, Hitler was amazing with speech, and he knew how to grab a person’s attention. He declared promises, which he never kept, that pleased their needs. “The Nazis appealed especially to the unemployed, young people, and members of the lower middle class (small store owners, office employees, craftsmen, and farmers)”. In the year “1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor”. “Paul von Hindenburg, (appointed) Hitler chancellor of Germany in a government seemingly dominated by conservatives on January 30, 1933.”(102)
Timeline:
ReplyDelete-Born April 20 1889. Adolf was born in Braunau am inn, He was the third child born to Alois Hitler but his two siblings died as children. He has a half brother and a half sister.
-In 1895 Adolf moves to Linz and starts school in the village of Fischlham
-Hitler then attends a Benedictine monastery school in Lambach. There he sang in the choir. This is where he first saw the swastika engraved into crests in the buildings walls. At this time the “crooked cross” was a religious symbol and for the Nazi party.
-February 2 1900 his brother dies. This was an emotional ride for everyone but especially for Adolf. The love he got from his mother helped out weigh his beatings he got from his father.
-1905-1907 Hitler uses a lung ailment as an excuse to quit school for a while and then altogether drops out. In 1907 he fails his admission exam at the Vienna School of Fine Arts.
-In 1913 Hitler moves to Bavarian, Munich, Germany in hopes to avoid enlistment in the Austrian Army. The authorities demand he joins but fails his physical and returns to Bavarian.
-In 1921 Hitler wins an election and becomes the leader of new political party named the Nazi’s. The party's actual name is the National Socialist German Workers Party and it believes that equality is only for Germans, not Jews or immigrants
-April 1 1924 Hitler is sentences for 5 years in prison for treason.
-In 1933 the Holocaust began. The Nazi’s. With Hitler as the leader killed at least 6 million jews in concentration camps before it ended in 1945.
-From 1933 and 1945 Hitler faces a lot. He escaped a bomb attack, we named Times magazine's as “Man of the Year”, he declared war against the US, and finally in
1945 he committed suicide in Berlin.
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Hitler was a nice man himself but had cruel ways. He was just an average person that people looked up to until he started killing millions of Jews. There were obviously a lot of people who went against his ways but there were also people who agreed with what he was doing. Many people like to disintegrate him as less than a human for what he did. Yes I agree what he did was horrible and cruel but the reason he had so much power was because of the man he was. He wasn’t all that cruelty and actually was more human than people give credit to him. He had a way for the people, at least those who weren't jews, and they looked up to him and saw him as a powerful figure and went with what he did. (141)
TIMELINE: (100 Words) *Not counting numbers*
ReplyDelete1903- Adolf Hitler’s father Alois dies after going out for a walk and stopping for wine and died before it was brought to him.
1905- Adolf Hitler moves to Vienna and picks up Anti-Semitic beliefs.
1907- Adolf Hitler’s mother Klara dies from breast cancer.
1914-1918- Adolf Hitler serves in the First World War.
1919- Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers’ Party.
1920- Hitler is Discharged from Army.
1921- Adolf is named leader of the Nazi Party.
1924- Hitler goes on trial for Treason, and is put in prison.
1925- Hitlers book Mein Kampf is published.
1933- Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor who he was appointed by Hindenburg.
Hitlers personality got him through the ranks and ultimately made him rise to power. I think his teen years were very hard because his father died when he was thirteen and then when he was about eighteen his mother died. I think that Hitler writing his book Mein Kampf also got him to power because it sort of got him popular even though it did not sell well at first until he became the chancellor of Germany. I also think that his goals that he had set while coming to leader made him appreciated by most of the German people. ( 100 Words)
April 20, 1889 - Adolf Hitler was born in a small Australian village. Hitler’s father passed away in 1903 due to a lung hemorrhage. His mother passed away when he was 17.
ReplyDelete1909-1913 - He lived in Vienna by himself at 18 years old. He moved there with a goal of attending the art academy and becoming a great artist later on.
1914-1918 - Hitler served in World War 1 and he was a Corporal and a dispatch runner.
April 22, 1915-May 13, 1915 - Hitler served in France and Belgium in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment in the Second Battle of Ypres.
1919 - Hitler joined German Workers’ Party
1920 - The Nazi Party was formed
1920 - Hitler was dismissed from the Army and then began participating in the Germán Workers’ party.
July 1921 - Hitler became the leader of the Nazi Party
April 1, 1934 - Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison for Treason.
March 1933 - Nazi Concentration Camp at Dachau is opened. (159 words)
I think Adolf Hitler was able to gain so much power because of how manipulative and he was able to capture anyone’s attention because of how great of a speaker he was. He promised the disenchanted a way better life and a new, glorious Germany, but that wasn’t the case. Hitler did the complete opposite that he said he was going to do. I think once he achieved fame and popularity, he was able to cover up his rather “off-putting” personality with media images of a cultured gentleman beloved by children and animals. He had very few genuine friends, and a bloated view of his own intellect. (107 words)
1. 1909—1913: Without any means of money, Hitler struggles to survive in Vienna, living in a men’s hostel. He sells postcards which he’s drawn, of famous sights, and undertakes a series of menial jobs, to earn money. During this period of poverty, Hitler engages in much political activity, attending meetings, absorbing political newspapers and literature.
ReplyDelete2. 1913: Faced with military service for the Habsburg Empire, Hitler takes action to evade this by moving to Munich in Southern Germany.
3. 1914: At the outbreak of the First World War, Hitler volunteers for service in the German army and joined the 16th Barvarian Reserve Infantry Regiment. He distinguishes himself in service, being promoted to corporal and decorated with the Iron Cross for services as a runner on the western front.
4. 1918: At the time of the armistice, Hitler is lying in hospital suffering from temporary blindness due to a British gas attack in Ypres Salient. He returns to his regiment in Munich, later in the year.
5. 1919: Hitler is appointed to the Intelligence/Propaganda section where he undertakes political training.
6. 1920: Hitler is discharged from the army.
7. 1921: Hitler challenges Anton Drexler to become leader of the Nazi party. After initial resistance, Drexler agrees and Hitler becomes the new leader of the party.
8. 1932: Hitler becomes a German citizen.
9. April 1933: Communist party banned.
10. 1934: Hitler crushes all opposition within his own party—thus eliminating any of his rivals. (242)
Hitler was a very motivated and determined man. Despite many positions where he failed, he found the opportunity to rise in something else. Nothing changed his mind. He went through a lot more than an average person and yet nothing could stop the way he could easily manipulate people. Hitler never stopped wanting more. At times he could peacefully resolve conflicts but usually he would just invade the country. Hitler strived to unite all of the German- speaking countries. He committed genocide of many minorities but mainly the Jews. Hitler suffered through prison, he suffered through war, he suffered through temporary blindness, but his only true defeat was himself when him and his wife committed suicide together . (117)
- 1889: Hitler was born with an extremely poor family
ReplyDelete- 1903: Hitler’s father collapsed and died
- 1907: Hitler’s mother died from breast cancer
- 1913: He lived by himself at 18 years old
- 1914: Hitler served in World War One as lance corporal
- 1933: Hitler started gaining power in Germany
- 1939: Germany invaded Poland (led by Hitler) and started the beginning of World War Two
- 1942: Nazis took over most parts of Europe (led by Hitler)
- 1945: The Holocaust was over (Hitler ordered all Jews to be killed)
- 194: Hitler committed suicide
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Hitler gained most of his power when he was elected chancellor of Germany in the government. He attracted most of his followers because Germany was so desperate for a change. Everyone wanted someone to come in and help. Many angry workers supported Hitler. The Nazi party became the largest party in the government. Hitler bargained his way into becoming chancellor and then began strategizing his he would become ruler of Germany. Hitler gained power to make his own laws after the Enabling Act was passed. The Nazis then took control over the government. He banned all political parties making the Nazi party the only one to exist. (107)
1895-Hitler was 6 years old and just started school when his father retired and received pension from the Austrian civil Service.
ReplyDelete1896- Adolf mother gave birth to Adolfs sister Paula. He now has 2 sisters and 2 brothers,only two of his siblings were
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1900- Hitlers father wanted him to follow his fathers footsteps so he was sent to a technical high school in the City of Linz, in September.
1907- Hitlers mother died so he moved to Vienna to enroll in a fine arts school, when he was denied he was sent into a great deal of depression.
1919- He found him self as a political officer in the army of Munich. He became one of the army’s best speakers.
1919- When he became speaker he was able to add around 6,000 people to the Nazi party.
1923- He was able to get her nearly 50,000 people hoping to grab the attention of the Berlin government and overthrow it.
1924- Hitler was sent to the Landsberg prison to only serve 9 months however he wrote a book that he preached while in prison to the inmates called Mein Kampf
1930- The Nazi party was very popular in Germany and received more than 6million votes in the election.
1932- President Hindenburg made Adolf the chancellor or Dictator.(205)
Through all that Hitler was raised through as a child you wouldn’t expect much from him. However you can’t deny that didn’t make something of his life. He went from poverty and a broken family to the ruler of an entire country.Hitlers philosophy more than likely showed what everyone in Germany wanted. His ideas gave Germany the inspiration and ideas of a successful country, Hitler wanted to make something out of Germany and people could see that in his his “drive” as a person.All we saw when we saw Hitler was a terrible person but Germany saw him as a second chance.(109)