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    `	         h#     ADOLF HITLER
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    `	         h#  1. THE BEGINNING
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  At half past six on the evening of April 20th, 1889 a child
was born in the small town of Branau, Austria.  The name of the
child was Adolf Hitler.  He was the son a Customs official Alois
Hitler, and his third wife Klara.  
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  As a young boy Adolf attendated church regulary and sang in
the local choir.  One day he carved a symbol into the bench which
resembled the Swastika he later used as the symbol of the Nazi
party.  He was a pretty good student.  He received good marks in
most of his classes.  However in his last year of school he failed
German and Mathematics, and only succeeded in Gym and Drawing.  He
drooped out of school at the age of 16, spending a total of 10
years in school.  From childhood one it was his dream to become an
artist or architect.  He was not a bad artist, as his surviving
paintings and drawings show but he never showed any originality or
creative imagination.  To fullfil his dream he had moved to Vienna
the capital of Austria where the Academy of arts was located.  He
failed the first time he tried to get admission and in the next
year, 1907 he tried again and was very sure of success.  To his
surprise he failed again.  In fact the Dean of the academy was not
very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard
time and said to him "You will never be painter."Y     bȍ Arthur M. Schlesinger, World Leaders. P. 14 Wepman
   New York 1985   Y   The rejection
really crushed him as he now reached a dead end.  He could not
apply to the school of architecture as he had no highschool
diploma.  During the next 35 years of his live the young man never   (         forgot the rejection he received in the dean's office that day. 
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  Many Historians like to speculate what would have happened
IF.... perhaps the small town boy would have had a bit more
talent....or IF the Dean had been a little less critical, the world
might have been spared the nightmare into which this boy was
eventually to plunge it.  
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    `	            2. WORLD WAR I
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  While living in Vienna Hitler he made his living by drawing
small pictures of famous landmarks which he sold as post cards. 
But he was always poor.  He was also a regular reader of a small
paper which claimed that the Araban race was superior to all and
was destined to rule the world.  The paper blamed Communists and
Jews for all their problems and hitler agreed to those views. 
Hitler agree with most of the points made in the publication.  He
continued to live a poor live in Vienna and in 1913 decided to move
to Munich.  Still living in Vienna and being Austrain by birth,
Hitler showed more loyalty to the Geramny.  He thought that the
Aryan race was destined to rule the world.  Many believe that he
tried to escape the draft but it was never proven.  His live in
Munich was not much better then before and he continued to be poor. 
Then in 1914 World War I broke out and Hitler saw this as a great
opportunity to show his loyalty to the "fatherland" by volunteering
for the Imperial army.  He did not want to fight in the Austrian
Army.  Hitler was a good soldier.  Many of political opponents
claimed that he was a coward but records clearly show that he was
not.  He received to awards of bravery but never achieved a high
Rank.   (         Ԍ 
  In 1918 Germany surrendered and Hitler was very upset about
the loss.  He believed that it was the Jews and the Communists who
betrayed the "fatherland" and it was here that his disliking of the
Jews most likely began.  Germany after the war was in chaos.  With
no real Government to control the country, many groups tried to
take control.  One day a big communist group staged a big riot but
another group of exsoldiers including Hitler managed to hold them
back.   
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    `	         h# 3. THE NAZI PARTY
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  Since there were not many chances for employment Hitler stayed
in the army.  Hitler was assigned the job of going go to various
meetings of groups which sprang up like mushrooms and to report on
them.  One day September 12, 1919  a fateful day in history,
Hitler was sent to investigate a small group which called itself
the "German Workers Party".  Hitler was not to happy about his
assignment.  He thought it wouldn't be worth it to even go.  At the
group mainly talked about the Countries problem and how the Jews,
communists and others where threatening the master race and offered
their own solutions.   Hitler was bored by the meeting but when a
man stood up and claimed that Bavaria should separate from Germany,
Hitler got up and argued that point.  He argued that Germany and
germans must unite into one to survive.  His natural ability to
speak imprest the leader of the group and at the end of the meeting
he gave Hitler a pamphlet and an initiation the next meeting.  He
wasn't interested in attending but after reading the hand out he
accepted.  He later joined the German Workers Party and was in
charge of Propaganda.  The party was small at first but Hitler's   (         great skill at deliberating speeches attracted more and more
listeners and it soon became a major party with many followers. 
Eventually Adolf Hitler became it's leader and the rest as they
say....is history.
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    `	          4. HITLER IN POWER
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  While spending time in prison for trying to overthrow the
government Adolf Hitler wrote his famous book "Mein Kampf", in
which he describes many problems and where he states that the Jews
and communists were responsible for those problems.  He also
decided on the "Final Solution" to the "Jewish Question".  It was
his goal to eliminate the Jewish race from the European continent. 
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  It is interesting to look and see how a small time boy from
Austria with no education, money or political background could
become within a few years the leader of big nation such as Germany. 
Historians believe that Hitler saw a great opportunity to get his
views across to the German people who have lost all hope.  Of
course people did not start to support him right away.  After he
came into power, the Nazi party took control over every aspect of
every day life.  Hitler ordered the creation of a special police
force to make sure that all opponents would be elimanted, the
Gestapo.  He also gave orders to set up a special force which would
be used to transport and take care of all political prisioners and
people thought to be inferior.  The name of the force was the
feared SS.  Mass propaganda was used to persuade the German people
that the "Fuhrer" would make the country strong and powerful again. 
They also used propaganda against the Jews and other minority
groups which were considered enemies.  Teachers had to belong to   (         the Nazi party, and children were taught that Jews very the source
of all their problems.  Since the country was in chaos after the
war, and was forced to pay billions in damages, The Germans saw
hope in Adolf Hitler.  In the late 20's the depression hit which
made the situation even worse.  
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  Hitler in his speeches blamed the Jews and Communists for
their misfortunes and many listed.  Unemployment was very high at
that time standing at about 25%.  Hitler also spoke out against
the unfairness of the Versailles treaty.  Germany lost a lot of its
territory.  The Empire was no more.  He believed the pure Araban
race is destined to rule the world and wanted to build an Empire
that would last a 1000 years.  He preached that all Germans must
unite in order for this goal to succeed.  
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  Hitler publicly stated his views on the Jews.  But the Jews
of Germany didn't see Hitler as a great threat at first.  However
when Hitler became chancellor and eventually took over totally they
changed their mind.  The first thing he did was to take the Jews
their right to vote.  Soon they were not allowed to marry with a
pure german, they could not hold positions such as teachers,
doctors lawyers,..and so on.  Many Jews only then realized that he
was serious and many fled Germany.  Why did so many Germans follow
Hitler?  When he took power the economy was basically non existent. 
Many looked for answers and hope.  Hitler was their answer.  He
promised to rebuild the Glorious Germany of the past.  First he
started to build up the Wehrmacht.  Germany was not allowed to have
more than 100,000 men, but Hitler broke the treaty and gave orders
to increase that number.  Factories started putting out weapons and   (         people now had jobs.  To the Germans this was a very good sign. 
Mass rallies were held, where Hitler continued to use his powers
of speech on the German people.
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    `	           5. THE ROAD TO WAR
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  At first the allies did nothing about the fact that Hitler
broke the Treaty.  He gave speeches in which he indicated that the
German people needed living space.  Later he Marched into the
Reihnland, and area which Germany lost.  Next He moved into
Austria, his home country and annexed it without a shoot being
fired into the Reich.  Following Austria, he wanted control of the
Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia which was mainly German
speaking.  He also achieved that goal.  The allies didn't want
another war so they led Hitler do what he wanted to, but when he
Attacked Poland on September 1st, 1939 the allies no longer stood
by and watched.  Britain and France declared war on Germany a few
days after later, World War II began.
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    `	         h# 6. THE DARK SIDE
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  After the Wehrmacht conquered and occupied a territory the SS
quickly followed.  They would round up Jews, Communists, Gypsies,
Homosexuals and others which were viewed as "Inferior" according
to Nazi racial theory and enemies of the German people and put on
trains.  They were all sent to Concentration camps, which were set
up to implement the 'final solution'.  Camps such as Auschwitz,
Treblinka, Bergen Belsen were all equipped with gas chambers to
make the killing process quick and efectfull.  In those camps 6
million Jews and many others were killed by the Nazis.  Hitler's
army seemed unstoppable but in the end, the allies managed to win   (         many decisive battles.  Eventually on Aril 30th, 1945 Hitler
committed suicide in his bunker by shooting himself in the mouth. 
His body was burned, but no ones knows what happened to the
"Fuhrer's" ashes.  On May 7th, 1945 Germany surrendered
unconditionally.  
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    `	               7. THE MAN
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  Hitler was one of the most, if not the most cruel man to ever
walk the face of the earth.  His believe of the superiorority of
the "Aryan" race made him hate all others.  He believed that the
slaws to the east should be made work for the German people.  He
thought of blacks as being "Subhuman".  And Most of all he hated
the Jews.  So much that in early 1945, when equipment and manpower
was badly needed on the front Hitler insisited on man and equipment
staying and continuing to tranport Jews to the camps.  In his
Testament he left his money to his family.  And message to the
Germany people "Above all I charge the leaders of the nation and
those under them to scrupulous observance of the laws of race and
to merciless opposition to the universal poisoner of all peoples,
international Jewry."V     b Allan Bullock, Hitler a study in Tyranny. P. 795 Harper
   New York, 1962V   
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  The only people which would be spared where the Scandinavians
to the north, since they were closely related to the German race. 
With Hitler's death the Nazi party quickly fated.  But there is
still a lot of tension in todays Germany.