Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Brahnau, Austria, a small town across the Inn River  from Germany.  In 1907 Hitler went to Vienna, Austria in an attempt to fullfill his dream of becoming an artist.  This attempt ended when he failed the entrance exam to the Academy of Fine Arts.  In 1913  Hitler went to Germany and when World War 1 began 1914 he volunteered for service in the German Army.
              In 1920 Hitler joined the National Socialist German Workers Party, Better known as the Nazis.  Hitler became the leader of the Nazi party and built up membership quickly, mostly because of his powerful speaking ability.  On November 9, 1923, Hitler led more than two- thousand storm troopers on a march to seize the Bavarian government.  The attempt failed and Hitler was arrested and sentenced to prison for five years for treason.  in 1930 a worldwide depression hit Germany, yet Germany also had the dept of payingfor the damage it had caused in World War 1.  Hitler protested againest paying the dept and said that the Jews and Communists were the cause of Germanys defeat in the war. 
              World War 2 began in 1939.  Hitler invaded Poland to begin his unification of all German-speaking peoples.  Before Hitler was stopped in 1945 by the allied countries he had killed over 12 million people.  Hitler commited suicide in his bunker on April 30, 1945 and seven days later, Germany surrendered.
               While Hitler was in prison in 1923, he wrote a book called Mein Kamph, better known as My Struggle or My Battle.  Under Hitler's government there was no freedom.  The government controlled every part of one's life.  Hitler used extensive propaganda to brainwash the nation into believing his theory about creating Aryan or nordic race.