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Hitler was born
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. -
The start of knowing war
Hitler later found a book about a military nature, including a picture book on the War of 1870-71 between the Germans and the French. By Hitler`s own account this book became an obsession. He read it over and over, becoming convinced it had been a glorious event. -
Hitlers boyhood
In describing his boyhood, Hitler later said of himself that he was an argumentative little ring leader who liked to stay outside and hang around with `husky` boys. His half-brother described him as spoiled and quickly angered. -
Death
Later his younger brother died. To make matters worse they buried him in the cemetery next to his house. They said it shook him pretty badly. -
School
Hitler wanted to become an artist. But his Father wanted to follow him in his foot steps and become a civil servant. So then his Father sent him to a high school in the city of Linz. -
Bigger struggle
Suddenly the struggle stopped between him and his Father. His Father later died because of a lung hemorrhage. He had an even bigger struggle. Now he had no discipline. So later he became worse with the pranks now doing them on teachers he did not like. His grades also got very poor and he was failing. -
Interest
Hitler had already had a keen interest in German nationalism along with a big interest in art and architecture. -
Job Offer
He later was asked if he wanted to become a priest. He always wanted to be one as a kid. But now he had absolutely no interest in it. -
New School
Later he was told not to come back to school. So he went to a school about 25 miles away from Linz. He shared a room with a boy and they liked to shoot rats for fun. -
Sickness
He inhereted a medical problem where he suffered from a bleeding lung aliment. He later selebrated from getting better and gut drunk then woke up on the side of the road. He swore to never drink again. -
Free
He then dropped out of school at age 16. He never returned back. He just wondered around and did what he felt like doing. -
Rejection and Sickness
He then signed up for an arts school He put all of himself in it. He even left his mother who was dying of breast cancer to move there. But sadly he was rejected and moved back home with his mother who didn`t have much time left. -
Mother dies
His mother died on December 21st a couple days before Christmas. -
Not accepting failure
Hitler later learned moving back to the school was not a very smart idea. He lived on the streets, in homeless shelters, and had to eat at soup kitchens. -
Home for the poor
He then moved into a home for poor men. He stayed there for a couple of years. He earned money by doing things like shoveling snow. -
Staring point of hate
He still did small things like selling paintings. His anti-semitism did not really bother him. He still did buisness with them. But that hate was coming up. -
Runaway caught
He tried to get out of being drafted to the military and ranaway. Later he was caught and was centenced to prison. -
Volunteer
Later he then volunteerd to be in the military. He miraculously survived for a long time. He took consideration and said he was standing up for the poor. -
Luck ranout
On October 7th his luck of not getting hurt ended. He was wounded in the leg by a shell fragment. He was sent home for effort. -
Sent back
In March of 1917 he asked to return back to War which he was indeed sent back. -
War is over
In October he was temporarily blinded by a Brittish chlorine gas attack. But later on November 10th 1918 an elderly pastor came and said the War was over. -
November Criminals
To Hitler, and so many others, the German politicians who signed the Armistice on November 11th, 1918, would become known as the "November Criminals". -
Job
Hitler was given the job of lecturing returning German prisoners of war on the dangers of Communism and pacifism, as well as democracy and disobedience. -
Symbol
Hitler chose the symbol which to this day remains perhaps the most infamous in history, the swastika. -
Nazi formation
He later changed the November Criminals to the Nazi`s. In the late year of 1920 they had over 3 thousand members. -
Start of takeover
The Europeans who had War with them paid Germany a bill of 33 billion dollars to fix damage from War. And so Hitler and the Nazi`s hatched a plot in which they would kidnap the leaders of the Bavarian government and force them at gunpoint to accept Hitler as their leader. -
Prison
He was caught and taken into prison. Hitler`s sentence was five yeras and eligible for parole in 6 months. Although behind bars he still got to communicate with the Nazi`s. -
Free Man
A few days before Christmas Hitler emerged a free man after 9 months in Jail. He even wrote a book. He had given considerable thought to the failed Nazi revolution and it`s implication for the future. -
Peaceful
He described the years 1926-29 were the happiest/quietest times of his life. He lived in a small house in the Mountains enjoying the view. -
Love
He invited his half-sister to stay with him for awhile. She also brought her two daughters. He quickly fell in love with the first one her name was Geli. He went shopping with her and patiently stood by and waited as she tried on clothes. He even took her to theaters, cafe`s, concerts, and even to part meetings. -
Man on top
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi`s waged a modern whirlwind campaign in 1930 unlike anything ever seen in Germany. Hitler travelled the country delivering dozens of major speeches, attending meetings, shaking hands, signing auto-graphs, and even kissing babies. -
Nothing to Something
On election day the Nazi`s went from the smallest to the second largest political party in Germany. -
The Brown House
The years 1930-31 had been good for Hitler politically. The Nazi`s had become the second largest political party in Germany. He became a best selling author. The Nazi`s even got a new headquarters in Munich called "The Borwn House". -
The love of his life dead
Geli was being a flirt and made Hitler Jealous. This made their relationship very bad. One day when he was leaving he told her not to go anywhere and she was refusing. By the time he got home she had shot herself in the heart with a pistol. To make matters worse that the love of his life was gone there were even rumors that she was murdered, perhaps even on Hitlers orders. But he was depressed and wouldn`t eat. -
Chancellor
He became the chancellor of Germany in January of 1932. -
Ellection
He wasn`t ellected leader but did not give up. -
Taking over dictatorship
The Nazi`s hatched a plan to burn the Reichstag building and end democracy once and for all. Adolf Hitler, the new Chancellor of Germany, had no intention of abiding the rules of democracy. He intended only to use those rules to legally establish himself as dictator as quickly as possible then begin the Nazi revolution. -
Take-over
After the elections of March 5, 1933, the Nazi`s began a systematic takeover of the state governments throughout Germany. They also started concentration camps. They were for the people who were jews and the people who disagreed with what he was doing. -
Final Dictatorship
They won the election later on. The Nazi`s all cheered and sand their anthem. Now, for the first time as dictator, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the driving force which had propelled him into politics in the first place, his hatred of the Jews. It began with a simple boycott on April 1st, 1933, and would end years later in the greatest tragedy in all of human history. -
Struggle
Him and his father had lots of disagree ments. T o the point where Hitler decided to be a bad boy in school. He pulled pranks and led the boys to play around too much. His Father being hard on him didn`t help very much at all either.