This document summarizes key events in Adolf Hitler's life and rise to power in Germany. It describes his childhood in Austria and failed attempt to become an artist. During WWI he joined the German army and was decorated for bravery. After the war he joined the Nazi party and helped grow its membership. In 1923 he attempted a failed coup in Munich called the Beer Hall Putsch. Imprisoned, he wrote Mein Kampf outlining his racist ideology. When the Great Depression hit Germany, the Nazis rose to power and Hitler became Chancellor in 1932. He then established a fascist dictatorship, outlawed opposition, and instituted racist laws targeting Jews.

1. Adolf
Hitler
The Tramp` from Vienna to
the Führer of Germany

2. Adolf Hitler, the youth
• Son of an abusive Austrian official.
• Dropped out of high school and
moved to Vienna.
• Wanted to be an artist.
• Was denied entry into the Imperial
Art Academy(twice).
• Lived off of his dead fathers
inheritance.
• Listened to many Anti-Semitic
(anti-Jewish) speakers

3. Adolf Hitler, the soldier
• WWI, moved to Munich,
Germany and joined the -
.0Army.
• Was a runner and achieved
the rank of corporal.
• received two Iron Crosses
for bravery.
• Feels cheated at Germany’s
loss and blames the Weimar
Republic, the “November
Traitors”

4. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party
• Hired as an internal spy by the Army
• Hitler spies on then joins the
National Socialist German Workers’
Party (Nazi)
• Nazi mimic much of the ideas of
Fascist Italy
• High unemployment rate and sky
rocketing inflation made Hitler’s
ideas very appealing to the middle
and lower middle classes.
• Adopt the swastika, or hooked cross
to tie his ideas to pre-history and
the occult
• Established the SA or Brown Shirts,
Nazi thugs used to beat up foes
Hitler took
the party
from a few
dozen
members
to 55,000
(15,000 SA)
in 1923.

5. Beer Hall Putsch, 1923
• Inspired by Mussolini’s march on Rome
• Hitler orders the Nazi to seize control of Munich,
the plan fails
• Hitler catches national attention at his trial.
• Hitler is sentence to 5 years in low security prison
• He only server 9 months.

6. Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
• set forth Hitler’s beliefs and goals:
• Racial Purity
– Aryans = “master race” those of Germanic
decent, blond hair and blue eyes
– non-Aryans = “inferior or subhuman races”
= Jews, Slaves and Gypsies
• denouncement of the Versailles Treaty
• Lebensraum:
– living space, Hitler called for an invasion
of Russia to allow the German race to
grow
• The twin evils:
– Communism and Judaism, and he stated
that his aim was to eradicate both from
the face of the earth

7. New Plan • Released from jail in 1924 but
ignored because the economy
was getting better
• Legal Revolution, work with the
Right against the Left
• Nazi became a national party in
1929 and had 800,000 members
by 1932
• 1932,
– Great Depression at it worse,
– Germany 30% unemployment (6
million)
– Hitler’s Nazi Party won greatest #
of seats in the government
– Hitler is named Chancellor (Prime
Minister)

8. Adolf Hitler, the Chancellor
• 1933 Hoping to increase his number of
seats in the Parliament, Hitler calls a
new election.
• Six days before the elections the
Reichstag (House of Parliament) is set
on fire,
– the Nazis blame the communists (many
historians think that the Nazis set the fire)
and the Nazis win a slim majority.
• Enabling Act 1934
– With a majority Hitler asks to be given
total control of the country for 4 years
only one deputy spoke out against it.

9. Adolf Hitler, the Führer (leader)
Politics:
• Banned opposition parties and arrested
opposition leaders
• Created the SS (Hitler’s guards) led by
Heinrich Himmler, who arrested and
murdered hundreds, became another
branch of the Army
• Night of the Long Knives,
– Hitler ordered the killing of many
Brown Shirts leaders (Ernst Röhm) in
order to keep the SA in line & appease
Army
• Gestapo, or secret police used brutality
and terror to keep all in line
Ernst Rohm
Heinrich Himmler

10. Economics:
• Banned Strikes and
dissolved labor unions
• Government took
control over businesses
• Started many government jobs
that put millions to work building
public works (highways aka the
autobahn, bridges, etc.) and
weapons
• By 1936 unemployment had
dropped from 6 million to 1.5
million!!!
• Hosted the 1936 Olympics (Jesse
Owens steals his thunder)

11. Private Lives:
• Propaganda = Press, radio,
literature, paintings and films
• Book Burning, great classics were
burned because they did not
agree with Hitler’s ideas
• Churches were forbidden to
criticize the Nazis
• Hitler Youth (boys) and League of
German Girls
• Taught violence and struggle as
part of life (Social Darwinism)

12. Blamed Jews
• 1% of Pop.
• Blamed for all of Germany’s
problems
• Nuremberg Laws, started in
1933, denied Jews the right to
vote and:
– ban against mixed marriages
– Kicked out of professional jobs
– Boycott of all Jewish business
Kristallnacht
• Nov 9 1938, Night of the
Broken Glass,
– Nazi mobs destroy thousands of
Jewish homes and shops

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