Facts About Adolf Hitler

Born April 20, 1889, in Brannau, a village in Austria, Adolf Hitler was the son of 4 Schickelgruber Alois Hitler and Klara. 

Early life of Adolf Hitler spent in Austria. He liked to draw, however, failed to pass the exam in the academy of arts. He moved to Munich and joined the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment Reserve World War, where he was gassed and wounded, and also received an award for bravery in action. 

It was in 1919, after the end of the war, Hitler joined what is known as the German Workers Party, later renamed the National Socialist German Workers, which in turn was abbreviated to the Nazi Party . Soon, he took charge of party propaganda and by the year 1921 he was appointed the leader. 

It was in 1923 that the National Socialist German Workers Party, led by Adolf Hitler tried to seize power, the ruling German Weimar Republic, in the famous Beer Hall Putsch. However, Hitler was unsuccessful and was imprisoned. 

It was during the nine months he spent in jail that Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf or My Struggle, his autobiography and manifesto. After release from prison and became a spokesman for the German nationalist populist and poor. 

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After that, in 1932, Hitler tried to become the chancellor, challenged Paul von Hindenburg in the election that took place, but could not succeed. 

Later, after the death of Hindenburg, Adolf Hitler became the Führer and Chancellor, Reichskanzler, or in 1934. He immediately set about establishing an absolute dictatorship imposing its rules recently formed with the help of the Gestapo, the brutal secret police. Concentration camps were created by the organized murder of Jews, political opponents, and gypsies. 

He then went about the invasion and annexation of territory, as much as he could in Europe, the Sudetenland and Austria, in 1938, and then the invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, which France and Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September, starting the Second World War. 

In the early years of the war, Adolf Hitler, with the force of German infantry and tanks to unleash a lightning war, was remarkably successful, wiping out much of Western Europe, nations falling one by one the great machine German war. 

Hitler attacked the URSSen 1941, ignoring a non-aggression pact he had signed with them before 1939. After initial victories, Hitler’s forces suffered crushing defeats for the first time in Moscow in December 1941, and later at Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-1943. 

It was in December 1941 that the United States of America entered the war. The allies began the invasion of occupied Europe by landing on the French coast at Normandy Beach in 1944. Then the German cities began to be bombed and destroyed and the Allied troops entered Germany and made his way to Berlin in 1945. Meanwhile, Italy under the leadership of Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, who was an ally of Germany, also fell. 

During the war many senior Nazis were desperate, and a number of attempts were made to assassinate Hitler, which were unsuccessful. Meanwhile, the forces of the Soviet Union is also close to Berlin, which was the place had its headquarters Hitler.

As it became quite clear that the war was lost, and his lieutenants to finger went against his orders, to realize the futility of continuing, Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945. However, the night before, he married Eva Braun, his long term lover, who also committed suicide with him. Thus came to an end, both the war and the Nazi regime. 

The official name of the Nazi Third Reich, Hitler had boasted that it would last 1000 years, but collapsed within a week after Hitler’s death. 

However, we can say that Hitler was the one who was responsible for three of the most climactic Century 20: 1) World War II, 2) The Holocaust, and 3) the Cold War that followed World War II. In addition, Israel would not have come into existence in the Middle East, if the Holocaust had not occurred.