Adolf Hitler speaking at the Lustgarten, Berlin, 1938.
The Nazi Party started on February 20th, 1920, in Munich, Germany, which was called the N.S.D.A.P which stands for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or the National Socialist German Workers Party. The Nazi party lasted 25 years until its fall on October 10th, 1945. The Nazi Party was founded by the German workers, which Anton Drexler started, which back then was called the German Workers' Party, or Deutsche Arbeiterpartei in German. After Hitler and many other leaders were captured after the Beer Hall Putsch, they restarted the party, calling it the N.S.D.A.P.
The Nazi Party was created to revolt against the harsh demands of the Treaty of Versailles, which the majority of Germany disapproved of. The Treaty of Versailles stated that the German nation must pay a sum of 33 billion or 1.052 trillion Deutsche Marks, which was the economic value of Germany at that time. But due to the inflation of the Great Depression at the time, the Treaty of Versailles made daily necessities almost impossible to pay for. Adolf Hitler used this as a ploy to revolt and create the Nazi Party, which consisted of many members of the SA (Sturmabteilung).
The Nazis sought to eliminate the Communists, their greatest political enemy at the time. Many of the Nazi members had witnessed the atrocities the Communists committed at the time. The SA crushed and stopped many Communist meetings locally in cities such as Hamburg and Berlin.
On July 20th, 1921, Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Nazi Party. Under Hitler, the Nazi Party grew very rapidly. The Nazi Party controlled Germany as a totalitarian state from 1933 to 1945. During this time, he solved many severe issues in Germany throughout the Nazi Party's reign, gaining the trust of the German people. Hitler's speaking power allowed the Nazis to increase in political power in the 1930 elections as well. By July 1932, they were the biggest and most supported party in the Reichstag. But President Paul von Hindenburg still refused to give the position of chancellor to Hitler. But with pressure from Franz von Papen and many others, he gave the position of chancellor to Hitler, as Franz von Papen claimed that Hitler could be controlled by a precisely-chosen cabinet, with von Papen as chancellor, and that it was the best option to stabilize Germany. Finally, Hitler was given the position of chancellor, and von Papen was appointed vice-chancellor. After this, the Enabling Act was passed, giving Hitler dictatorial powers, along with the rise of the Nazis' total power over Germany.
During the German Empire, the leaders blamed two types of groups for their loss in World War I: the Jews and the Communists. Because Adolf Hitler was a soldier in WWI who was enraged by the defeat, he believed it. By then, Hitler developed a stereotypical hatred for the Jews and Communists, and many others, like Adolf Hitler, did as well. This group was called the NSDAP, or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or National Socialist German Workers Party. From 1920 - 1945, the NSDAP considered many reforms to their party and Germany; many paramilitary organizations were created, such as the SA and Hitler Youth. By 1933, Hitler and his SA did their best to eliminate these stereotypical enemies, which they unfortunately succeeded in doing. They were first started by boycotting Jewish businesses, and many other anti-Semitic speeches.
Hitler wanted these "enemies" eliminated, and he wouldn't rest until he did. On November 9, 1938, the people of the Reich would notably witness the true destructive and deadly power of the Nazis: Kristallnacht. Kristallnacht, or Night of the Broken Glass in English, was a purge commenced by the Nazis against the Jewish people of Germany. His SS and some of the Hitler Youth were to carry out this purge. After Kristallnacht, an estimated 91 Jewish lives were taken, at least 900 synagogues were raided and burned, 7,000 Jewish businesses were destroyed, along with other Jewish places being raided and destroyed, and 30,000 men were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. Unfortunately, this was only the beginning.
When Hitler was satisfied with the captured Jewish population, he wanted to start his invasion forces. By the beginning of 1939, the Nazi Party had around 4.2 million soldiers, including the Waffen SS, the Luftwaffe, the Heer, and the Kriegsmarine. And by 1945 the Nazi Party had 9.4 million soldiers, including the ones listed above. After lots of training, meetings, equipment, weapons, aircraft, and all sorts of other things. The Nazi Party's 4.2 million soldiers were ready for war. 1939 September 1st. The Nazi's trained forces invaded Poland, officially forcing the Allies in Europe to finally take a stand and declare war against Germany, starting WWII.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889, in a small town in Austria-Hungary. Adolf Hitler had three siblings, who unfortunately all died in infancy, with 4 surviving siblings: Alois Jr., Angela, Edmund, and Paula. His father, Alois Hitler, forced Alois Jr, the oldest one, to do everything around the house and be berated by his father until he ran away at the age of 13, leaving Hitler to do the rest of the work.
His relationship with his father wasn't so great, but it was the opposite of his mother, Klara Hitler, whom he absolutely loved due to the great treatment she gave to Hitler. Like his mother, Hitler had a good relationship with his brother Edmund, but unfortunately, he had died at the young age of 6 because of measles.
Before Edmund's death, Hitler's life was great. Afterwards, many people, such as his teachers, began to notice a change in the boy, as they reported seeing him lying on the graveyard walls, gazing at the stars, talking to trees, and a decline in good grades, which he was obviously punished for. Afterwards, Hitler desired to pursue fine arts instead of being a public official, as his father intended. His father didn't accept this, but by then, he was too old and couldn't enforce his control in the family. On January 3, 1903, his father died of a pleural hemorrhage. Leaving Adolf with his mother.
In early adulthood. Hitler left Linz to become an artist and to study fine arts. In 1907, Adolf Hitler's art dreams were broken. Hitler failed the entry exam for the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, which made him extremely mad. On top of that, Hitler's mother, suffering from cancer, sadly died in front of him at the hospital. The doctor treating her then quoted, "I've never seen someone as overwhelmed with grief as Hitler was." When Hitler came into power, he honored his mother by naming a street in Passau, Germany, after her.
When WWI broke out on July 28th, 1914, due to an assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by a Serbian student by the name of Gavrilo Princip, Hitler was 25 years old when he volunteered for the Imperial German Army in August 1914. While he fought in the war, he was very lucky in avoiding danger, but it wasn't to last. During a battle in Ypres, Belgium, Hitler was severely blinded taken back to Germany to recover.
On November 11th, 1918. The German Empire lost against the Allies in World War 1. After the German Empire lost World War 1, Germany lost a lot of supplies. Germany was the only country that was forced to pay reparations, with most of its military forces crumbling. The Allies forced them to have no air force and only 100,000 personnel in the army.
After World War 1. Adolf Hitler became a part of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei). The German Workers Party was a political party. But it only lasted from January 5th, 1919, to February 24th, 1920. Then Adolf Hitler became Chief of Propaganda for the German Workers Party in 1920, because Hitler's speaking skills impressed the head officials of the NSDAP. Then on February 24th, 1920. The German Workers Party changed to the Nazi Party. Which by then, Adolf Hitler was the leader of the new Nazi Party. And from that point on, the Nazi Party grew to be a very powerful force in German politics at that time. He started to undo the Treaty of Versailles, recreating the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe. Then he started taking countries non-important to the Allies.
The Beginning of The War:
First, Austria, which suffered a collapse of the then-empire, Austria-Hungary, due to the First World War. This was then known as the costliest war on the Austrian side. The Wehrmacht came into Vienna with little to no resistance, as the Austrians were happy to see the Nazis. This moment was then called Anschluss, which symbolized the political and geographical union of Austria and Nazi Germany.
He then took Czechoslovakia, which is today Czechia and Slovakia, under one union, by first starting with the little area called the Sudetenland. His excuse to take this area was that he wanted to reunite the ethnic German peoples within the region. Chamberlain, the leader of the UK, allowed Hitler to take this area, but under one condition: He was not to invade the rest of Czechoslovakia.
By then, Hitler knew he could have just kept going, so he eyed Poland and the hated Polish territory, splitting Prussia and Germany apart. Despite the Allies not allowing the occupation of Poland, it did not matter. With the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed by Germany and the Soviet Union, the two powerful nations invaded Polish territory, taking the country in about a month, starting World War II.
The End of The War:
Before the end of the war in Europe, the Allies had reached Germany. Berlin was in ashes, and people were getting killed left and right. Hitler knew that he would be tried for his crimes against humanity. In the Führerbunker, Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide before the Allies took the city, with many other Nazi officers following suit after WWII.
Eva Braun was poisoned, and Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot to the head, killing him immediately. Rumors said his and his wife's bodies were burned due to the Nazis not wanting Hitler's death to be known. After the war, Allied agents found remnants of a body. It seemed to be a tooth according to further studies.
This sparked many rumors. People suspected that Hitler had indeed died before the war ended. Some people suspected that, like other Nazi officials who were fortunately hunted down by Israeli agents, fled Germany and went to Argentina, considering many other Nazis fled specifically to Argentina in South America.
Hitler's presence and death have sparked a question yet to be answered to this day. And unfortunately, may never be answered.
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Hitler did not create the hatred of Jewish people (anti-Semitism). He took advantage of ideas that had been around for a very long time. But why was he so evil to kill more than 11 million people?
Hitler was a soldier during the first World War. He and many other soldiers the same as him were very angry about the defeat of the German Empire. The German Empire's command kept spreading the myth that Jews and Communists betrayed their country, feeding the ideology of the Nazi Party.
By blaming Jewish people for the defeat of the German Empire, Adolf Hitler generated a stereotypical enemy with the Jews. And many people agreed as well. Many agreed, many didn't. Most of those who didn't agree with the racist policy were either forced, or really wanted to not be left out.
According to Hitler and his followers, wiping out the Jewish population would be the solution to solve the problems with Germany. Then when Hitler came into power after winning the elections in 1932, Hitler used the opportunity and unfortunately wiped out 6 million Jews, along with 5 million disabled individuals and other foreign races.
These races were hated because of their non-Aryan presence, which Hitler didn't approve of, henceforth, they were treated similarly as the Jews.
According to Hitler, disabled individuals showed a non-powerful presence in the German people. So to prove Germans were strong, Hitler's SS executed these certain people, spreading and worsening the reputation of the Nazis, yet no one could do anything without risking themselves.
The Nuremberg Laws embodied the racial theories of Nazi Germany which led to the prosecution of many groups of individuals during the Holocaust, such as the ones listed above. Hitler announced the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, which after that, Germany's Parliament (Reichstag), passed the laws which made anti-Semitism the central importance to the Nazi Party, along with the hatred of other non-German races and ideals, such as the ones listed above.
During Kristallnacht (Night of The Long Knives), many of these peoples were attacked locally, with many SA officials storming through various local areas to eliminate these supposed "enemies".
Unfortunately, 6 million Jewish people and 5 million non-Aryan people died as victims of the Holocaust. Young, or old, no one escaped the wrath of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party.
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Images of Nazi Germany
Reichserntedankfest, 1934.
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels (in box) at Charlottenburg Theatre, Berlin, 1939.
Nazi officials on their way to Fallersleben Volkswagen Works cornerstone ceremony, 1938.