hitler
...good grades, but one of the teachers in his high school classified young Hitler as notorious, cantankerous, willful, arrogant, and irascible. He has an obvious difficulty in fitting in at school. He dropped out of school at the age of 16. . From childhood one it was his dream to become an artist. He had moved to Vienna, the capital of Austria where the Academy of Arts was located but they would not except him. Some think had he been excepted the Holocaust might never have happened. In 1913 Hitler decided to move to Munich. Although he was Austrian by birth, Hitler believed himself a German and did not like Austria because of all the Slavs. Then in 1914, when WWI began, Hitler volunteered for the Imperial Army. Hitler received awards of bravery and courage and held the rank of corporal but was wounded one day when some British soldiers lobbed explosives at them while they were getting food rations. One day September 12, 1919, Hitler was sent to investigate a small group which called itself the German Workers Party or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. His natural ability to speak impressed the leader of the group and at the end of the meeting he initiated him. He later was put in charge of Propaganda. The party was small at first but Hitler's took a liking to it and it’s ideas , and with his great skill at speaking attracted more and more listeners and it soon became the Nationalsozialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or National Socialist Worker’s Party. A man name Ernst Rohm organized a group of Storm Troopers (Storm Abtcilung) for Hitler. The storm troopers would beat up any hecklers or critics and when there weren’t any they would find Jews to beat up. By the summer of 1923, the Nazi party had grown to 150,000. Hitler captured the government leaders and forced them to join him. His 3,000 men then marched to Berlin in an attempt to take it over. The German police were waiting. Shots were fired and sixteen Nazis and two policemen died. He was arrested and sentenced to five years in jail although he only served nine months of it and was allowed large adjoining cells and to have visitors. There, in jail he wrote Mein Kampf or my struggle. This book went on to become the second best seller ever in Germany. The End The Great Depression caused the economy in Germany to fall and thus giving the Nazis two million more votes than the communist party. This put them just under the democratic party and Hitler planned on running against Paul Von Hinderburg, a social democrat. Although he did not win he was made Chancellor. Next, He forced Hindenburg to abolish the freedom of speech, press, and assembly. In 1934 President Hindenburg died. Using his unlimited powers, he combined President and Chancellor. At the end of the war, on April 30, 1945, Hitler shot himself to avoid capture. He ordered his elite SS troops to take his body and set it on fire with gasoline. Hitler’s Reich was over, millions gassed, millions shot. Hitler could have saved his armies had he listened to his generals and not tried to run the entire army by himself. The German forces were stretched too far into Russia and the cold was too...