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Subject: Adolf Hitler !!!
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 09:48am
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), German political and military leader and
one of the 20th century's most powerful dictators.
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 09:49am
Hitler converted
Germany into a fully militarized society and launched World War II
in 1939 . He made anti-Semitism a
keystone of his propaganda and policies and built the Party into a mass movement. He hoped to conquer
the entire world, and for a time dominated most of Europe and much
of North Africa.
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He instituted sterilization and euthanasia measures
to enforce his idea of racial purity among German people and caused
the slaughter of millions of Jews, Sinti and Roma (Gypsies), Slavic
peoples, and many others, all of whom he considered inferior. *
mr.dev 15.05.10 - 09:52am
Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, in 1889,
the fourth child of Klara and Alois *itler.
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Hitlers father worked
his way up in the Austrian customs service to a position of considerable
status, and as a result Hitler had a comfortable childhood.
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Hitler began school in 1900, and his grades were above average. It was
decided that he would attend Realschule, a secondary school that
prepared students for further study and emphasized modern languages
and technical subjects.However, Hitler and his father strongly
differed about career plans. His father wanted him to enter the civil
service; Hitler insisted on becoming an artist. As a result, Hitler
did poorly in Realschule, having to repeat the first year and improving
little thereafter.
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During this time, Hitler began to form his political views: a strong
sense of German nationalism, the beginnings of anti-Semitism, and a
distaste for the ruling family and political structure of Austria-Hungary.
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Like many German-speaking citizens of Austria-Hungary, Hitler considered
himself first and foremost a German.
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 09:54am
The death of Hitlers father in January 1903 changed the family.
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 09:56am
He spent much time playing and dreaming,
did poorly in his studies, and left school entirely in 1905 after the
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:00am
The German Workers' Party, later renamed the National Socialist German Workers
Party (abbreviated NSDAP or Party), became Hitlers political focus.
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Here he found an outlet for his talents in political agitation and party organization.
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The party espoused essentially the same ideas *itler had picked up in Vienna:
violent racial nationalism and anti-Semitism. He also shared the s opposition
to the liberal democracy of the German Weimar Republic, which had been established
after the war.
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:01am
Though still in the army, Hitler quickly became the new spokesman for the party.
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His talent for public speaking and the use of the local army's resources to generate
publicity drew large audiences to events sponsored by an organization that had only
100 to 200 members.
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When he presented the party's official program to a gathering on
February 24, 1920, there were almost 2000 present.
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Hitler was discharged from the army the following month, and he soon attained
dominance in the party. He was the partys most effective recruiter and,
thanks to paid attendance at his speeches, its most successful fundraiser.
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When opposed within the party, he found ways to push out rivals and dissenters. Several
times he did so by threatening to leave the party himself.
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:22am
Hitler obtained enough
support to have himself chosen as Fhrer (absolute leader) of the party on July 29, 1921. *
mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:26am
In protest, the German government halted all reparation payments and called for passive
resistance by all the workers in the Ruhr area.
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This resistance took the form of a
general strike, with laborers throughout the Ruhr refusing to work. To pay the striking
workers, and to make up for money lost due to the stoppage of coal production, the
government printed huge amounts of new money.
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:26am
This vast increase in the money supply
triggered runaway inflation, as the German currency rapidly lost value.
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:27am
People saw their
savings become worthless, while the price of goods skyrocketed. *
mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:31am
Hitler left Germany and much of Europe in ruins. Over 60 million people died worldwide in the war,
and tens of millions more lost their health and homes.
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:32am
Certain that they did not want to fight the
Germans a third time, the Allies insisted on an unconditional surrender. They occupied all of
Germany and divided it into British, French, American, and Soviet zones. Even after the western
zones were joined into the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, the country remained divided until 1990.
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:32am
The German people discovered for the first time the extent to which modern warfare could destroy
a country.
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World War I had not been fought to any great extent on German soil. The events of the
war also demonstrated to many Germans the problems of dictatorship.
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:38am
Increasing numbers were now
prepared to try a different, democratic, path at home, as well as an attempt at reconciliation
with their neighbors. Both projects would take time, but they were major departures in the history
of Germany and of Europe.
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:39am
The war also brought the Soviet Army into central Europe and provided the Soviet regime with
legitimacy in the eyes of its own people, a new empire in east and southeast Europe, and
superpower status in the world.
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:39am
The world role of the United States was also enhanced in
spite of the American preference for remaining aloof. Outside of Europe, the war hastened
the end of colonial empires and the emergence of the new Jewish state of Israel.
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It also
brought about the creation of new international organizations like the United Nations (UN)
that might prevent such wars in the future.
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Ironically, these developments were the exact opposite of what Hitler had hoped for. His
ambition to make Berlin the capital of the world was not realized, and the enormous buildings
he started designing for it in the 1920s were never built. Hitler combined organizational and
manipulative talents with great cunning.
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:40am
He was simultaneously obsessed with fantastic visions
and blinded to reality by those very visions. However, many Germans shared at least a portion
of those visions. This support made it possible for Hitler to utilize the resources of Europe's
second largest population and most advanced economy to pursue his ends.
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The result was an outburst
of destruction that consumed the lives of millions and transformed the world. *
mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:46am
Faced with massive inflation and growing civic unrest, the German government abandoned
passive resistance and attempted to work out a new agreement with the Allies. At this point,
Hitler decided the time was right to start a revolution.
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His followers were becoming restless,
and he feared that the opportunity to launch a coup might pass as the government worked out an
agreement and ended inflation.
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On November 8, 1923, Hitler and 600 armed members of the Sturmabteilungen (or SA, a
paramilitary force) made their move. They marched on a Munich beer hall where
Gustav von Kahr, head of the provincial Bavarian government, was addressing a public
meeting. Hitler took von Kahr and his associates hostage and declared in von Kahr's
name the formation of a new national government.
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Von Kahr was then released, and he
immediately retracted the statement, outlawed the party, and ordered the Bavarian
police to crush Hitlers revolution.
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Undaunted, Hitler and his men led a march to the center of Munich the following day.
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State police halted the march, shooting started, and 16 of Hitler's followers were killed.
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Lacking mass support, Hitler had no chance against the police and military power of the
Bavarian government. The so-called Beer Hall putsch (revolt) had failed.
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Hitler fled but
was soon arrested and tried. In court he practically took over the proceedings, denouncing
both the Weimar Republic and the Bavarian government.
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mr.dev 15.05.10 - 10:49am
Even though the putsch failed, it proved useful to Hitler. He received a great deal of publicity and learned an important lesson about the way to destroy democracy.
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It was not
to be destroyed by outside force, but by working within its system to build up popular
support, always avoiding a confrontation with its police and military power. *
chuck.no 23.05.10 - 11:12pm
Why are midgets so mean and hung up about world domination - Napoleon, Hitler, Bush...... All midgets *
joker666 24.05.10 - 03:31am
Hail Hitler *
joker666 24.05.10 - 03:56am
Show sum respect chuck u r talkin abt sum of da greatest rulers of all time. *
