Adolf Hitler Case

Adolf Hitler born April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria. He was one of six children born to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. When Hitler was just three years old the whole family moved from Austria to Germany. After the death of his younger brother , Edmund, he became detached and introverted. Hitler revealed an interest in art, and in addition he showed interest in German nationalism.

Hitler’s father died suddenly in 1903. Two years after his mother allowed him to drop out of school. Hitler moved to Vienna and worked as a laborer and a watercolor painter. He applied to the Academy of Fines Arts twice, and was turned away both times. With little money, he moved into a homeless shelter, where he stayed for several years. These years was the time when he first cultivated his anti- Semitism.

Hitler registered for the German army when World War 1 took place. He was later accepted in August 1914. He was at a number of big battles and was wounded at the Somme. He received the Cross First Class and the Black Wound Badge. He became embittered over the years of the war effort. It reinforced his German patriotism. Hitler found the Treaty of Versailles degrading.

Hitler went back to Munich after World War 1 and continued to work in the military. He joined the DAP, in 1919. Hitler personally designed the party banner for (NSDAP), it featured a swastika in a white circle on a red background. He soon gained popularity for his speeches against the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler replaced Drexler as NSDAP party chairman.

On November 8, 1923, Hitler and the SA interrupted a public meeting declaring the formation of a new government. He was then arrested and tried for high treason. He went to prison for a year, their he wrote a book dictated to his deputy, Rudolf Hess. In the book it laid out plans for German society into one based on race.

In 1932, Hitler ran against Paul von Hindenburg for the presidency. Hitler came in second. Hindenburg agreed to appoint Hitler as chancellor in order for political balance. He used his position to form a de facto legal dictatorship, he also created the passage of Enabling Act. On July 14, 1933, Hitler’s Nazi Party was known to be the only legal political party in Germany.

Hitler became supreme commander of the armed forces after the cabinet abolished the office of President and combining its powers. Between 1939 and 1945, Nazis were responsible for the deaths of 11 million to 14 million people, 6 million of those were Jews. Deaths took place at concentration camps and through mass executions. He never visited the concentration camps nor did he speak about the killings publicly.