Adolf hitler

Hitler retreated to his On 21 April, Hitler ordered By 27 April, Berlin's communication had been all but cut off from the rest of Germany. Secure radio contact with defending units had been lost; the command staff in the Führerbunker had to depend on telephone lines for passing instructions and orders, and on public radio for news and information. By this time, the Red Army had advanced to the Führerbunker. The two then hosted a modest wedding breakfast, after which Hitler took secretary After some time, Hitler's valet, Günsche left the study and announced that Hitler was dead to a group in the briefing room, which included Goebbels, Krebs, and General The bunker telephone operator SS- At around 16:15, Linge ordered SS- Oberscharführer Werner Schwiedel to roll up the rug in Hitler's study to burn it. Schwiedel later stated that upon entering the study, he saw a pool of blood the size of a "large dinner plate" by the arm-rest of the sofa. Noticing a spent cartridge case, he bent down and picked it up from where it lay on the rug about 1 mm from a 7.65 pistol. The Red Army shelled the area in and around the Reich Chancellery on and off during the afternoon. SS guards brought over additional cans of petrol to further burn the corpses. Although the corpses were being burned in the open, where the distribution of heat varies (as opposed to in a In the early morning hours of 2 May, the Soviets captured the Reich Chancellery. Führerbunker, Generals Krebs and Burgdorf shot themsel...

Early Life 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. After his mother, Klara, died in 1908, Hitler moved to Vienna, where he pieced together a living painting scenery and monuments and selling the images. Lonely, isolated and a voracious reader, Hitler became interested in politics during his years in Vienna, and developed many of the ideas that would shape Nazi ideology. Military Career of Adolf Hitler In 1913, Hitler moved to Munich, in the German state of Bavaria. When Deployed in October 1914 to Belgium, Hitler served throughout the Great War and won two decorations for bravery, including the rare Iron Cross First Class, which he wore to the end of his life. Hitler was wounded twice during the conflict: He was hit in the leg during the Like many Germans, Hitler came to believe the country’s devastating defeat could be attributed not to the Allies, but to insufficiently patriotic “traitors” at home—a myth that would undermine the post-war Nazi Party After Hitler returned to Munich in late 1918, he joined the small German Workers’ Party, which aimed to unite the interests of the working class with a strong German nationalism. His skilled oratory and charismatic energy helped propel him in the party’s ranks, and in 1920 he left the army and took charge of...

Adolf Hitler was the undisputed leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party—known as Nazis—since 1921. In 1923, he was arrested and imprisoned for trying to overthrow the German government. His trial brought him fame and followers. He used the subsequent jail time to dictate his political ideas in a book, Mein Kampf—My Struggle. Hitler’s ideological goals included territorial expansion, consolidation of a racially pure state, and elimination of the European Jews and other perceived enemies of Germany. • 1 After his release from prison in 1924, Hitler began seeking political power through legal means, such as elections, rather than through violent attempts to overthrow the government. • 2 Modern propaganda techniques—including strong images and simple messages—helped propel Austrian-born Hitler from a little known extremist to a leading candidate in Germany’s 1932 presidential elections. • 3 A common misconception about Hitler’s rise to power is that he was voted into office. In January 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor, the head of the German government. Early Years and World War I Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was born on April 20, 1889, in the Upper Austrian border town Braunau am Inn. In 1898, the Hitler family moved to Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. Seeking a career in the visual arts, Hitler fought bitterly with his father, who wanted him to enter the Habsburg civil service. Hitler lived in Vienna between February 1908 and May 1...

His father, Alois Hitler (1837–1903), was a mid-level customs official. Born out of wedlock to Maria Anna Schickelgruber in 1837, Alois Schickelgruber had changed his name in 1876 to Hitler, the Christian name of the man who married his mother five years after his birth. Alois Hitler's illegitimacy would cause speculation as early as the 1920s—and still present in popular culture today—that Hitler's grandfather was Jewish. Credible evidence to support the notion of Hitler's Jewish descent has never turned up. The two most likely candidates to have been Hitler's grandfather are the man who married his grandmother and that man's brother. Linz In 1898, the Hitler family moved to Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. Hitler wanted a career in the visual arts. He fought bitterly with his father, who wanted him to enter the Habsburg civil service. After his father's death, Hitler eventually persuaded his mother, Klara Hitler, née Pölzl, to permit him to pursue his dream of becoming an artist. As Klara was dying of breast cancer in the autumn of 1907, Hitler took the entrance exam to the Vienna Academy of the Arts. He failed to gain acceptance. In early 1908, some weeks after Klara's death in December 1907, Hitler moved to Vienna, ostensibly in the hope of renewing efforts to enter the Academy of Arts. Vienna Hitler lived in Vienna between February 1908 and May 1913. He had grown up in a middle-class family, with relatively few contacts with Jewish people, in a region of the Habsbu...

Throughout his youth, Adolf Hitler dreamed of becoming an artist. He applied in 1907 and again the following year to the Vienna Academy of Art but was denied admission both times. At the end of 1908, his mother, Klara Hitler, died of breast cancer. Adolf spent the next four years living on the streets of Vienna, selling postcards of his artwork to survive. Parents and Siblings Like many on the losing side of World War I, Hitler was furious at Germany's capitulation and the harsh penalties that the Treaty of Versailles, which officially ended the war, imposed. Returning to Munich, he joined the German Workers' Party, a small right-wing political organization with anti-Semitic leanings. German President Paul von Hindenburg (left) in a car with Nazi leader and Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler in Berlin, on May 1, 1933. Culture Club / Getty Images Even while Hitler was in prison, the Nazi Party continued to participate in local and national elections, slowly consolidating power throughout the rest of the 1920s. By 1932, the German economy was reeling from the Great Depression, and the ruling government proved unable to quell the political and social extremism that roiled much of the nation. Hitler receives an ovation after announcing the Anschluss. Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain On February 27, 1933, under mysterious circumstances. Hitler used the fire as an excuse to suspend many basic civil and political rights and to consolidate his political power. When German Presid...

Adolf Hitler's Rise to Power Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 - April 30, 1945) was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945. Upon achieving power, Hitler smashed the nation’s democratic institutions and transformed Germany into a war state intent on conquering Europe for the benefit of the so-called Aryan race. His invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, triggered the European phase of World War II. During the course of the war, Nazi military forces rounded up and executed 11 million victims they deemed inferior or undesirable—“life unworthy of life”—among them Jews, Slavs, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Hitler had supreme authority as führer (leader or guide), but could not have risen to power or committed such atrocities on his own. He had the active support of the powerful German officer class and of millions of everyday citizens who voted for the National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party and hailed him as a national savior in gigantic stadium rallies. How were Hitler and the Nazis possible? How did such odious characters take and hold power in a country that was a world pacesetter in literature, art, architecture, and science, a nation that had a democratic government and a free press in the 1920s? Hitler rose to power through the Nazi Party, an organization he forged after returning as a wounded veteran from the annihilating trench warfar...

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica Facts Born April 20, 1889 • Died April 30, 1945 (aged 56) • Title / Office Founder Political Affiliation Awards And Honors Notable Works Notable Family Members spouse Role In Did You Know? • The KGB claims that they destroyed Hitler's remains and scattered his ashes so that his grave would not become a shrine for his supporters. • When tested, the skull fragment that Russia held which supposedly belonged to Hitler was definitively found to belong to a female. • The execution and humiliation of Mussolini and his mistress after fascist Italy fell are said to have contributed to Hitler's decision to commit suicide along with his wife. Photos and Videos

Official portrait, 1938 In office 2 August 1934 – 30 April 1945 Preceded by (as Succeeded by (as President) In office 30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945 President Paul von Hindenburg (1933–1934) (1933–1934) Preceded by Succeeded by In office 29 July 1921 Deputy (1933–1941) Preceded by Succeeded by Oberbefehlshaber of the German Army In office 19 December 1941 – 30 April 1945 Preceded by Succeeded by Reichsstatthalter of Prussia In office 30 January 1933 – 30 January 1935 Preceded by Franz von Papen ( Reichskommissar) Succeeded by Personal details Born ( 1889-04-20)20 April 1889 Died 30 April 1945 (1945-04-30) (aged 56) Cause of death Citizenship Contents • 1 Ancestry • 2 Early years • 2.1 Childhood and education • 2.2 Early adulthood in Vienna and Munich • 2.3 World War I • 3 Entry into politics • 3.1 Beer Hall Putsch and Landsberg Prison • 3.2 Rebuilding the Nazi Party • 4 Rise to power • 4.1 Brüning administration • 4.2 Appointment as chancellor • 4.3 Reichstag fire and March elections • 4.4 Day of Potsdam and the Enabling Act • 4.5 Dictatorship • 5 Nazi Germany • 5.1 Economy and culture • 5.2 Rearmament and new alliances • 6 World War II • 6.1 Early diplomatic successes • 6.1.1 Alliance with Japan • 6.1.2 Austria and Czechoslovakia • 6.2 Start of World War II • 6.3 Path to defeat • 6.4 Defeat and death • 7 The Holocaust • 8 Leadership style • 9 Personal life • 9.1 Family • 9.2 Views on religion • 9.3 Health • 10 Legacy • 10.1 In propaganda • 11 See also • 12 Notes • 13 Cit...

(1889-1945) Who Was Adolf Hitler? Adolf Hitler was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, serving as dictator and leader of the Hitler’s fascist policies precipitated Family The fourth of six children, Hitler was born to Alois Hitler and Following the death of his younger brother, Edmund, in 1900, Hitler became detached and introverted. Young Hitler Hitler showed an early interest in German nationalism, rejecting the authority of Austria-Hungary. This nationalism would become the motivating force of Hitler's life. In 1903, Hitler’s father died suddenly. Two years later, Hitler's mother allowed her son to drop out of school. After her death in December 1907, Hitler moved to Vienna and worked as a casual laborer and watercolor painter. He applied to the Lacking money outside of an orphan's pension and funds from selling postcards, he stayed in homeless shelters. Hitler later pointed to these years as the time when he first cultivated his anti-Semitism, though there is some debate about this account. In 1913, Hitler relocated to Munich. At the outbreak of Although Hitler spent much of his time away from the front lines (with some reports that his recollections of his time on the field were generally exaggerated), he was present at a number of significant battles and was wounded at the Hitler became embittered over the collapse of the war effort. The experience reinforced his passionate German patriotism, and he was shocked by Germany's surrender in 1918. Like other German n...

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica Facts Born April 20, 1889 • Died April 30, 1945 (aged 56) • Title / Office Founder Political Affiliation Awards And Honors Notable Works Notable Family Members spouse Role In Did You Know? • The KGB claims that they destroyed Hitler's remains and scattered his ashes so that his grave would not become a shrine for his supporters. • When tested, the skull fragment that Russia held which supposedly belonged to Hitler was definitively found to belong to a female. • The execution and humiliation of Mussolini and his mistress after fascist Italy fell are said to have contributed to Hitler's decision to commit suicide along with his wife. Photos and Videos