Mrs. Rodgers
First Hour
April 13th, 2011
Adolf Hitler
Thesis: Adolf Hitler dropped out of Realschule and was interested in Arts, he led the powerful German Nazis, later, as Berlin fell to the Russians Hitler committed suicide. Hitler was not a successful student. Hitler was born on the date of April 20th, 1889 in the town of Braunau, Austria. His father, Alios Hitler, was an Austrian customs official. His father retired in 1895. Alios was married three times. In the year of 1903 his father died. Hitler lived a pleasant life. He lived idle at his house for two years after dropping out of school. The Hitler family made their home in the city of Linz, that is the capital of upper Austria. The only games that Hitler liked to play as a child were war type games. Hitler had an outstanding performance in elementary school but struggled in Realschule, a college prepatory school. He dropped out of Realschule in 1905. After he dropped out of school he refused to get a job. Hitler spent his time as a child reading, painting, wandering in the woods, and dreamed of one day becoming a famous artist. His mother died in the year of 1907. Hitler moved to Vienna in attempt to enroll in the Academy of Fine Arts. Hitler did not gain admittance and then went into a deep depression. On May 13th, Hitler did not want to get drafted into the Austrian military, so he went across the German border to Munich. He got caught on the border, was arrested, and went to jail. Hitler led the Nazi Party. Hitler made a youth group called the Hitler Youth movement. One thing they did in that movement is book burnings. They would burn “Jewish Marxist” books. Hitler violently encouraged book burnings. Hitler himself was a strategist, not a fighter. “He used his tongue instead of his fists,” and he was always a leader, one historian wrote. He was a good soldier. Hitler’s enemies tried to prove that he was a coward when it cam to war.
Hitler led the Nazi Party. A defeated