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Hitler was born in Austria.
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His father died in 1903, and 4 years after, his mother followed leaving Hitler on his own. In 1908, he traveled to Vienna and was rejected at Academy of Fine Art.
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He fought bravely and was promoted to corporal; won two Iron Cross for bravery.
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He was accepted an army's requirement to investigate(as a spy) the German Workers Party.
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After joining the party, in february, he changed the party's name to National Socialist German Workers Party or the Nazis Party.
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He also set up the SA to stop Nazis Party meetings being interrupted by opponents.
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Then in 1924, he was sent to jail for a 5 year-sentence, but he only served 9 months. While in prison, he wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle).
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He outlined his political idas for Germany-
+his plan for attaining power;
+blames Jews for all the problems and evils of the world and for defeat of Germany in WWI;
+ proclaims Germans or Aryans as the “master race” of highest racial purity and Jews as the “anti-race”;
+calls for Germany to stop the Jews from conquering the world only by eliminating them and find “Lebensraum” (living space) for all pure Germans;
+eliminating democracy and calling upon a "Fuhrer" to rebuild the German Reich. -
He was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg.
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The German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down due to arson.Hitler blamed it on the Communists. He granted emergency powers.
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+power to make own laws,
+power to abolish political parties,
+power to open concentration camps
+power to establishing himself (Hitler) as a dictator. -
Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops.
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After President Hindenburg death on August 2, Hitler named himself Furher (dictator) of Germany.
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Germany took rest of Czechoslovakia (violation of Munich Agreement)
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Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in his bunker in Berlin. His wife, Eva joined him by swallowing cyanide.
