Hitler was born in Austria, on April 20, 1889, to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. At the age of three Hitler and his family moved from Austria to Germany. Hitler’s father disapproved in his interest in fine arts. After Hitler’s father died in 1903, his mother allowed him to leave school and move to Vienna. While there he applied to the Academy of Fine Arts twice, and was rejected. Throughout the years after losing all of his money bill and began to cultivate his anti-Semitism. When world war one started Hitler applied to serve in the German army, he was accepted even though he was still an Austrian citizen. During the war Hitler had spent his time away from the front lines. During this war Hitler was present at a number of significant …show more content…
battles. Some of the metals that he earned during the war was the iron cross first class and the black wound badge. He was extremely shocked when Germany surrendered in 1918.
While working as an intelligence officer he monitored the German workers party (DAP). During is monitoring the adopted many of the anti-Semitic, nationalist, and anti-Marxist ideas of DAP founder Anton Drexler. Hitler was invited to join the DAP, which he did join in 1919. The DAP changed to the NSDAP. Hitler was the one who designed the party banner. The party banner consisted of a swastika of inside of a white circle on a red background. 1921, is the year that Hitler replaced Drexler as NSDAP party, due to his vitriolic speeches. Some of the early followers of Hitler’s vitriolic speeches were: Captain Ernest Rohm, in the Sturmabteilung (SA). During Germany’s great depression Hitler had a political opportunities. In 1932 Hitler ran for presidency. Hindenburg agreed to appoint Hitler as chancellor in order to promote political balance. 1938 along with several other European leaders signed the Munich agreement. On September 1, 1938 Germany invaded Poland causing Britain and France declare war. In 1941 Hitler had violated the pact with Joseph Stalin spending more than three million German troops into the Soviet Union. On December 7 Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor, After the attack Hitler was now against a coalition that included Britain which of
the world’s largest empire, the U.S. Which was the world’s greatest Financial Power, And the Soviet Union which had the world’s largest army. By early 1945 Hitler married his girlfriend, after the wedding he was informed of the assassination of Italian dictator. The day after his wedding Hitler and his wife had committed suicide.