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Introduction :
Adolf Hitler , the leader of germany’s Nazi’s party
was one of the most powerful and notorious Adolf
Hitler, the leader of Germany’s Nazi Party, was one
of the most powerful and notorious dictators of the
20th century. Hitler capitalized on economic woes,
popular discontent and political infighting to take
absolute power in Germany beginning in 1933.
Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 led to the
outbreak of World War II and by 1941 Nazi forces
had occupied much of Europe. Hitler’s virulent
anti-Semitism and obsessive pursuit of Aryan
supremacy fueled the murder of some 6 million
Jews, along with other victims of the Holocaust.
After the tide of war turned against him, Hitler
committed suicide in a Berlin bunker in April 1945.
H I S E A R LY L I F E
He was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, a
small Austrian town near the Austro-German frontier.
After his father, Alois, retired as a state customs
official, young Adolf spent most of his childhood in
Linz, the capital of Upper Austria.
Not wanting to follow in his father’s footsteps as a civil
servant, he began struggling in secondary school and
eventually dropped out. Alois died in 1903, and Adolf
pursued his dream of being an artist, though he was
rejected from Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts. . For
some years he lived a lonely and isolated life, earning a
precarious livelihood by
painting postcards and advertisementsand drifting from
one municipal hostel to another. Hitler already showed
traits that characterized his later life: loneliness and
secretiveness, a bohemian mode of everyday existence,
and hatred of cosmopolitanism and of the multinational
character of Vienna.
In 1913 Hitler moved to Munich. Screened for Austrian military service in
February 1914, he was classified as unfit because of inadequate physical vigour;
but when World War I broke out, he petitioned Bavarian King Louis III to be
allowed to serve, and one day after submitting that request, he was notified that
he would be permitted to join the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment.
After some eight weeks of training, Hitler was deployed in October 1914
to Belgium, where he participated in the First Battle of Ypres. He served
throughout the war, was wounded in October 1916, and was gassed two years
later near Ypres. He was hospitalized when the conflict ended. During the war,
he was continuously in the front line as a headquarters runner; his bravery in
action was rewarded with the Iron Cross, Second Class, in December 1914, and
the Iron Cross, First Class (a rare decoration for a corporal), in August 1918. He
greeted the war with enthusiasm, as a great relief from the frustration and
aimlessness of civilian life. He found discipline and comradeship satisfying and
was confirmed in his belief in the heroic virtues of war.
HIS RISE TO POWER
dolf Hitler's rise to power began in Germany in September 1919 when Hitlerjoined the political party then known as
the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei – DAP (German Workers' Party). The name was changed in 1920 to the Nationalsozialistische
Deutsche Arbeiterpartei – NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party). It
was anti-Marxist and opposed to the democratic post-war government of the Weimar Republic and the Treaty of Versailles,
advocating extreme nationalism and Pan-Germanism as well as virulent anti-Semitism. Hitler attained power in March
1933, after the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 in that month, giving expanded authority. President Paul von
Hindenburghad already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and
associated backroom intrigues. The Enabling Act – when used ruthlessly and with authority – virtually assured that Hitler
could thereafter constitutionally exercise dictatorial power without legal objection. Hitler rose to a place of prominence in
the early years of the party. Being one of its best speakers, he was made leader after he threatened to leave otherwise. He
was aided in part by his willingness to use violence in advancing his political objectives and to recruit party members who
were willing to do the same. The Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923 and the later release of his book Mein Kampf (My
Struggle) expanded Hitler's audience. In the mid-1920s, the party engaged in electoral battles in which Hitler participated as
a speaker and organizer,[a] as well as in street battles and violence between the Rotfrontkämpferbund and the
Nazis' Sturmabteilung (SA). Through the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Nazis gathered enough electoral support to
become the largest political party in the Reichstag, and Hitler's blend of political acuity, deceptiveness, and cunning
converted the party's non-majority but plurality status into effective governing power in the ailing Weimar Republic of
1933.
Once in power, the Nazis created a mythology surrounding their rise to power, and they described the period that roughly
corresponds to the scope of this article as either the Kampfzeit (the time of struggle) or the Kampfjahre (years of struggle).
HIS DEATH
He killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in
his Führerbunker in Berlin.[a][b][c] Eva Braun, his wife of one
day, committed suicide with Hitler by taking cyanide.[d] In
accordance with his prior written and verbal instructions, that
afternoon their remains were carried up the stairs through the
bunker's emergency exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in
the Reich Chancellerygarden outside the bunker.[1][2] Records
in the Sovietarchives show that their burned remains were
recovered and interred in successive locations until 1946.
[e] They were exhumed again and cremated in 1970, and the
ashes were scattered.[f]
