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Born in Austria
Adolf HItler was born April 2, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria -
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Adolf's lifestory
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Swastika
Hitler attends a Benedictine monastry school in Lambach where he sang in the choir and had allusions of joining the priesthood. -
Brother dies
Edmund dies of measles and the family is distraught, no-one more than Adolf, who is torn between his parents. -
Father's Death
Alois Hitler died in 1903 but left an adequate pension and savings to support his wife and children, whe n he was only 14 yrs.of age. -
Mother's Death
His mother died when he was age of 18, he was a devoted son to his mother, who died after much suffering and breast cancer in 1907. -
Denied Admission To Art school
after his father died, he dropped out of high school and attempted to get into the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts - he failed. -
Listen to Karl Lueger and Became German Nationalist
Influenced by the anti-Semitic mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger• Became interested in the idea of German nationalism was also homeless and poor -
Left Austria to avoid draft
Hitler moves to the Bavarian capital of Munich, Germany, to avoid enlistment in the Austrian Army. -
At War
Hitler joins a Bavarian regiment of the German Army after World War I breaks out -
Wounded
Hitler suffers a serious thigh wound at the Battle of the Somme. -
Rejoin His unit
Hitler volunteers to go back to the front and lives through rat-infested trenches and gas attacks. -
His intake on the war.
First Class (a rare decoration for a corporal), in August 1918. He greeted the war with enthusiasm, as a great relief from the frustration and aimlessness of civilian life. He found discipline and comradeship satisfying and was confirmed in his belief in the heroic virtues of war. -
Blinded
Hitler is blinded in a British clorine gas attack near Ypres soon before the end of the war. -
Became a leader
he became their leader with almost unlimited powers. From the first he set out to create a mass movement, whose mystique and power would be sufficient to bind its members in loyalty to him -
Nazi Party in Bavaria
The climax of this rapid growth of the Nazi Party in Bavaria came in an attempt to seize power in the Munich (Beer Hall) Putsch of November 1923, when Hitler and General Erich Ludendorff tried to take advantage of the prevailing confusion and opposition to the Weimar Republic to force the leaders of the Bavarian government and the local army commander to proclaim a national revolution