Isabelle Lynne Fuller
American History
Matt Walker 4th hour
4/9/17
Would you want to be a soldier working for Adolf Hitler during World War II? Many things happened in Hitler's life before World War II and some of those things were serving in the Bavarian Army during World War I, getting temporarily blinded by a British gas attack in World War I, and eventually rising to the rank of lance corporal. Many things happened in Hitler's life and a big one is starting World War II causing many problems. More in depth background on Adolf Hitler´s life is when he ¨joined a struggling group called the National Socialist German Workers´ Party, better known as the Nazi Party in 1919. Hitler proved …show more content…
As part of Hitler's "Final Solution," the genocide enacted by the regime would come to be known as the Holocaust. Millions of deaths and mass executions took place in concentration and extermination camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, and many more. It was not only Jews that were killed, there were Poled, communists, homesexuals, Johovah´s Qitnesses and trade unionists that were executed or died. The people that were not being killed at the time were used as forced laborers for SS construction projects, and in some instances they were forced to build and expand concentration camps. The prisoners were starved, tortured and subject to horrific brutalities, including having to endure gruesome and painful medical experiments. Hitler did not speak publicly about the mass killings, but Germans documented the atrocities committed at the camps on paper and in …show more content…
¨Hitler and his army began planning for the wars against the United States and the Soviet Union when they won the war between the French resistance. By July 31, after first hoping to invade the Soviet Union in the fall of 1940, Hitler, On the advice of his military staff, decided to attack in the east in the late spring of 1941. When Britain refused to accept defeat, Hitler made three measures to knock them out of the war: the German air force would destroy the country’s capacity to defend itself; there would be an invasion if Britain did not surrender; and the expected quick defeat of the Soviet Union would remove that country as a possible source of aid for Britain and, by ending any danger to Japan, encourage that power to move in the Pacific and tie up the United