This document provides an outline of topics related to Adolf Hitler and Nazism, including his birth, childhood, education, family, career in the German army and as the leader of the Nazi party, the rise of Nazism, his dictatorship over Germany, World War 2, the fall of Hitler, his autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf, and his death. The document contains hyperlinks to sections within the outline.

1. BY/
SANGEETH RAJ
HARI.V
JOHN GEORGE
LIVIN VARGHEESE

2. CONTENTS
ADOLF HITLER & NAZISM
 BIRTH
 CHILDHOOD
 EDUCATION
 FAMILY
 CAREER
 THE GERMAN ARMY
 NAZISM
 NAZISM PARTY RISE TO POWER
 DICTATORSHIP
 WORLD WAR II
 FALL OF HITLER
 MEIN KAMPF
 DEATH

3. A QUOTE BY HITLER
 IF YOU WIN , YOU NEED
NOT NEED TO EXPLAIN … IF
YOU LOOSE YOU SHOULD
BE THERE TO EXPLAIN!
-ADOLF HITLER

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BIRTH OF A TITAN
 At 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889, he was born in the
small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border
from German Bavaria.
 Adolf Hitler would one day lead a movement that placed supreme
importance on a person's family tree even making it a matter of life
and death. However, his own family tree was quite mixed up and
would be a lifelong source of embarrassment and concern to him.
 His father, Alois, was born in 1837. He was the illegitimate son of
Maria Anna Schicklgruber and her unknown mate, which may have
been someone from the neighborhood or a poor millworker named
Johann Georg Hiedler. It is also remotely possible Adolf Hitler's
grandfather was Jewish.
 Maria Schicklgruber was said to have been employed as a cook in
the household of a wealthy Jewish family named Frankenberger.
There is some speculation their 19-year-old son got her pregnant
and regularly sent her money after the birth of Alois.
 Adolf Hitler would never know for sure just who his grandfather
was.

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HITLER’S CHILDHOOD
 though Adolf Hitler would grow up to be one of the most
well-known political leaders of all time, he had very humble
beginnings. Looking at his youth, it's difficult to pinpoint
where he began to have the deeply disturbing anti-Semitic
tendencies that would pervade his every action as Germany's
dictator. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. He was
born in Austria-Hungry. Hitler's parents, Alois Hitler and
Klara Polzl had six children, though only Hitler and a single
sister would survive to become adults. Hitler's early
childhood was very difficult because his father was abusive
to his entire family.
Looking back, it's possible to credit Hitler's earliest
childhood with many of his character flaws. It's well-known
today that abusive parents tend to breed children who are
also cruel and abusive. It is interesting to note that Hitler
was ashamed enough of his childhood to attempt to lie about
it. In Mein Kamph, he paints his upbringing as very idyllic,
describing a doting mother and responsible father. With all
evidence pointing to the contrary, it seems that this was

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EDUCATION
 Adolf Hitler considered education to be a very
important factor in Nazi Germany. When he
wrote Mein Kampf while serving out a prison sentence
at Landsberg, Hitler wrote “whoever has the youth
has the future”. In Hitler’s Germany, education would
be the key that ensured that he had “the youth” of
Germany.
 Hitler’s view on education was that it served a sole
purpose – to ensure that a child was loyal to the Nazi
state to ensure that the Third Reich lasted for 1000
years. A lot of the Nazi education system also
reflected Hitler’s educational experiences. After his
failure to get into the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
Hitler developed a loathing of intellectuals who in his
opinion based their teaching on what could be learned
behind desks or in lectures halls. Hitler wrote that
the first duty of the state was to care for the
physical well-being and physical development of the
young:
 “The whole education in a national state must aim first
of all not at stuffing the student with mere knowledge

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FAMILY
 PARENTS
Alois Schickelgruber
Hitler’s father
Klara Hitler
Hitler’s mother

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THE GERMAN ARMY
 The German offensive against Moscow was proving to be a
disaster. A perimeter had been established by the Soviets
200 miles from the city—and the Germans couldn't break
through. The harsh winter weather—with temperatures
often dropping to 31 degrees below zero—had virtually
frozen German tanks in their tracks. Soviet General Georgi
Zhukov had unleashed a ferocious counteroffensive of
infantry, tanks, and planes that had forced the flailing
Germans into retreat. In short, the Germans were being
beaten for the first time in the war, and the toll to their
collective psyche was great. "The myth of the invincibility of
the German army was broken," German General Franz Halder
would write later.
 But Hitler refused to accept this notion. He began removing
officers from their command. General Fedor von Bock, who
had been suffering severe stomach pains and who on
December 1 had complained to Halder that he was no longer
able to "operate" with his debilitated troops, was replaced
by General Hans von Kluge, whose own 4th Army had been
pushed into permanent retreat from Moscow. General Karl
von Runstedt was relieved of the southern armies because
he had retreated from Rostov. Hitler clearly did not believe
in giving back captured territory, so in the biggest shake-up
of all, he declared himself commander in chief of the army.

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CAREER
 After Hitler became the leader of the Nazi party, he quickly began
acquiring paramilitary-like titles and using Nazi Party paramilitary
uniforms to denote his position. Hitler's main title within the Nazi
party was simply that of Führer and there was never any special
uniform designed for Hitler's position, although a rank pin for a
civilian lapel (used by Hitler until 1934) was known as the "Eagle of
Sovereignty Pin". Hitler ceased wearing this pin after the Night oF
Long Knives due to widespread issuance of the Golden Party
Badge and Hitler's preference for this decoration.
 The brown Nazi Party uniform that Hitler is most often associated
with was a paramilitary uniform of the SA and denoted Hitler's
position as Oberste SA-FührerIn the late 1920s, Hitler occasionally
wore a black uniform, but this was during a period when Hitler was
emulating Benito Mussolini. Hitler's admiration for the Italian
dictator later faded as Germany became more powerful than her
Italian ally and Mussolini was, in the end, looked down upon by
Hitler as a puppet-dictator under German control.
 From 1933 to 1934, Hitler held the political position as Chancellor
of Germany and it is during this period that Hitler is most often
seen in newsreels and photographs as wearing civilian clothes. After
the death of the President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg. Hitler
declared himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich
Chancellor) by combining the offices of the President, and of that
of Chancellor, and adopted a brown uniform, similar to his earlier
SA uniform, but with a much cleaner cut.

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NAZISM
 Nazism, or National Socialism in full (German: Nationalsozialismus), is the
ideology and practice associated with the 20th-century German Nazi
Party and state as well as other related far-right groups. It was also
contemporaneous or promoted in other European countries, particularly those
with large ethnic German communities such
as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia
 German Nazism subscribed to theories of racial hierarchy and social Darwinism,
asserted the superiority of an Aryan master race, and criticised
both capitalism and communism for being associated with Jewish materialism. It
aimed to overcome social divisions, with all parts of a racially homogenous
society cooperating for national unity and regeneration and to secure territorial
enlargement at the expense of supposedly inferior neighbouring nations. The use
of the name “National Socialism” arose out of earlier attempts by German right-wing
figures to create a nationalist redefinition of “socialism”, as a reactionary
alternative to both internationalist Marxist socialism and free market capitalism.
This involved the idea of uniting rich and poor Germans for a common national
project without eliminating class differences (a concept known as
"Volksgemeinschaft”, or "people's community"), and promoted the subordination
of individuals and groups to the needs of the nation, state and leader. National
Socialism rejected the Marxist concept of class struggle, opposed ideas of
equality and international solidarity, and sought to defend private property.

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NAZISM PARTY RISE TO POWER
 Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power due to the social
and political circumstances that characterized the
interwar period in Germany. Many Germans could not
concede their country’s defeat in World War I, arguing
that “backstabbing” and weakness in the rear had
paralyzed and, eventually, caused the front to collapse.
The Jews, they claimed, had done much to spread
defeatism and thus destroy the German army. Democracy
in the Weimar Republic, they argued, was a form of
governance that had been imposed on Germany and was
unsuited to the German nature and way of life. They
construed the terms of the Versailles peace treaty and
the steep compensation payments that it entailed as
revenge by the victors and a glaring injustice. This
frustration, together with intransigent resistance and
warnings about the surging menace of Communism,
created fertile soil for the growth of radical right-wing
groups in Germany, spawning entities such as the Nazi
Party.

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DICTATORSHIP
 Nazi Germany under the leadership of Hitler soon
became a dictatorship. A dictatorship requires one
person and one party to be in control of a nation
and a climate of fear - this was provided
by Himmler's SS. Personal freedom disappeared
in Nazi Germany.
 When Hitler was appointed chancellor on January
30th 1933, it was at the head of a coalition
government. It was very clear in his mind that it
would not remain this way for long. By the end of
March 1933, he had acquired much greater powers
than the former leading politicians of the Weimar
Republic could ever have foreseen when they
supported his appointment as chancellor. The death
of President Hindenburg in August 1934, allowed
him to combine both chancellor's and president's
positions into one when Hitler became the Fuehrer
and Reich Chancellor.

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WORLD WAR II
 Because of his experiences in Vienna, World War One, the M�nich
putsch and in prison, Adolf Hitler dreamed of building a vast German
Empire sprawling across Central and Eastern
Europe. Lebensraum could only be obtained and sustained by waging a
war of conquest against the Soviet Union: German security demanded
it and Hitler's racial ideology required it. War, then, was essential.
It was essential to Hitler the man as well as essential to Hitler's
dream of a new Germany. In the end, most historians have reached
the consensus that World War Two was Hitler's war (for more on
Hitler, see Lecture 9 and Lecture 10). Unfortunately, although most
western statAesmen had sufficient warning that Hitler was a threat
to a general European peace, they failed to rally their people and
take a stand until it was too late. In this respect, you could argue
that the responsibility for World War Two ought to remain on the
shoulders of Britain, France and the United States.
 Following 1933 -- the year when Hitler consolidated his power as
Chancellor through the Enabling Act -- Hitler implemented his
foreign policy objectives. These objectives clearly violated the

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FALL OF HITLER
 By July, 1944, the German military situation was
desperate, and a group of high military and civil officials
(including Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and
Karl Goerdeler) attempted an assassination. Hitler
escaped a bomb explosion with slight injuries; most of
the plotters were executed. Although the war was
hopelessly lost by early 1945, Hitler insisted that
Germans fight on to the death. During the final German
collapse in Apr., 1945, Hitler denounced Nazi leaders
who wished to negotiate, and remained in Berlin when it
was stormed by the Russians.
 On Apr. 29 Hitler married his long-time mistress,
Eva Braun, and on Apr. 30 they committed suicide
together in an underground bunker of the chancellery
building, having ordered that their bodies be burned.
Hitler left Germany devastated; his legacy is the memory
of one of the most dreadful tyrannies of modern times.

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MEIN KAMPF
 Mein Kampf (pronounced [maɪ̯n kampf], "My
Struggle") is
an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi leader Adolf
Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and
future plans for Germany. Volume 1 of Mein
Kampf was published in 1925 and Volume 2 in
1926.The book was edited by the
former Hieronymite friar Bernhard Stempfle, who
was murdered during the Night of the Long Knives.
 Hitler began dictating the book to his deputy Rudolf
Hess while imprisoned for what he considered to be
"political crimes" following his failed Putsch in
Munich in November 1923. Although Hitler received
many visitors initially, he soon devoted himself
entirely to the book. As he continued, Hitler
realized that it would have to be a two-volume
work, with the first volume scheduled for release in
early 1925.

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DEATH
 Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot
on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in
Berlin. His wife Eva (née Braun) committed
suicide with him by ingesting cyanide. That
afternoon, in accordance with Hitler's prior
instructions, their remains were carried up
the stairs through the bunker's emergency
exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in
the Reich Chancellery garden outside the
bunker. Records in the Soviet archives
show that their burnt remains were
recovered and interred in successive
locations until 1970, when they were again
exhumed, cremated, and the ashes
scattered.