Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated names in history, but at one time one of the most powerful. Many feared and disliked him but at the same time they looked to him for reassurance and hope. What they found in him was unlike anything they could ever imagine.
 In 1837 Alois Schicklgruber was born. Alois Schicklgurber's mother died in 1847 when he was only ten years old. He then in 1850 got a job at the Board of Inland Revenue. In 1873, Alois Schickgurber married his first wife, Anna Glassl, having no children. Then in 1876 Alois changed his name from Schicklgruber to Hitler. Alois and Anna filed for divorce because Alois was having an affair with Franzika Matzelgerger in 1880. In 1883 Alois' first wife died while he married Franziska Matzelgerger in the same year. Just one year after they married, Franziska died. In 1885 Alois married an already pregnant peasant girl named Klara Polzl, he being 47 and her 25. They both were related, for Klara was Alois' niece so this made it very difficult for them to marry.  

Picture of Alois Shicklgurdber 

On April 20, 1880, Adolf Hitler was born. Alois and Klara were his parents. Many people said Alois abused Klara and Adolf. Adolf was born in Braunau, Austria. Adolf had a very troubled childhood. He did very poorly in school. He attended school in 1895 for four years  but then went to secondary school at age eleven. He wanted to be an artist but Alois wanted him to be a government official. Adolf lost interest in school and dropped out at age six-teen. In 1905, Adolf went to live with his Klara and became good friends with August and Gustl Kulizek.  Both Gustl and Adolf left for Vienna in 1908. While Adolf was in Vienna he learned of his hatred of the Jewish people, then becoming Anti-Semitic. To get away from a mixture of races and escape serving in the military with Jews, Adolf moved to Munich, Germany at age twenty-four. In the war Germany lost to Great Britain and the United States in 1918, Adolf  was wounded twice and awarded the Iron Cross. 
 
Like many others Adolf believed that they were stabbed in the back by many Jewish slackers. Adolf began speaking before many groups and crowds of people. Speaking of how it was the Jewish people who should have to pay for Germany's loss in the war. After the war Adolf went poor and began looking for a job in politics. He got a job spying on political parties. One of his assignments was to spy on Anton Drexler, Gottfried Feder, and Dietrich Eckart, who formed the German Workers Party. While Adolf was spying on them he realized they had many of the same out looks on things as he. Shortly after he got an invitation to join and became the leader or Fuher in 1921. He then made it the largest political party in Germany and renaming it the Nazi Party.
 
Adolf and the Nazi Party thought Germany was week enough and planned a revolt. This however did  not work and Adolf was thrown in jail for attempts to over throw the German Government. A sentence of five years but somehow only served nine months. While Adolf was in jail he wrote his plans to take over Germany entitled "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle). Yet again when Adolf got out of jail he planned another revolt  in Munich to make himself dictator. He revolted at a good time for Germany was in a deep depression. Businesses were closing, people  were losing their jobs, and Adolf promised he could get all of them back on their feet. When Adolf and the Nazis did get to power, they started persecuting Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and the mentally challenged. Then he began more  rapidly sending them to secret extermination of concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Dachu, or Treblinka. 
   
In these camps thousand of people, even children, were starved ,shot, beat, burned alive or dead , and even poisoned or gassed. In one story, the Nazi's poled out a boys eyes and then stabbed hi to death before his mother. They were sent to jail and Adolf sent them letter saying "I will do everything in my power to get you both out". Jews were robbed of everything. Adolf secretly was creating a mass army, far larger than the Treaty of Versailles allowed them to have. Adolf set an alliance with Italy and a deal that would keep Russia out of any way that involved Germany. That deal was set so Adolf took Poland and split the land with Stalin. Adolf planned an attack on Poland on August 26, 1939 at 4:30 p.m. But on August 25, Britain and Poland signed a pact on mutual assistance so he had to deal with that first. Adolf thought it was vital to set an alliance with Britain and Italy so they weren't fighting wars in the East and West at the same time. However, Mussolini  said if he attacked Poland, Italy would not join them. So he was forced to post-pone his attack until September 1, 1939 at 4:45 a.m. Another mass murdering of Jews was Kristallnach (night of long knives) under Adolf's command. On Sepetember 1, Adolf sent U-30 subs to attack the British liner, Athena. That attack killed 1,400 passengers, 120 of which were Americans. So world War Two began. In the spring of 1940, Adolf conqured Demnark, Norway, The Netherlands, and France. He began to threatin Austria and convinced Herr Schuschnigg to sign Austria over to German control. Followed by  taking Belgum and Holland for Naval and Air wellfare. Adolf then relized all this time the Allies were moving closer and closer until they almost had him backed in to a corner. Many of him commanders and generals told him that it was over for them. Adolf panicked and shot himself in the mouth with him new wife, Eva Braun, at his side. She poisoned herself. Their bodies were found April 30, at 2:30p.m. Their bodies were taken then burned.

This shows that many people were burned after they have been killed, just like they are partaking in a large bonfire. 
 
As you can see, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi's wanted a perfect race and a world free of Jews. They got neither but killed thousands of innocent lives in the attempt.

 

Chelsie McCullough

7th Social Studies

Rossville Jr. High

Holocaust Project

2004

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