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Adolf Hitler's Accomplishments

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His rise to power was marked by several key events and it was a wonder no one had been aware sooner that he was a snake in disguise. Born to proud parents in 1889 in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn, Hitler was coddled and bathed in the love of his mother, Klara, while his father, Alois, worked. At six, everything changed, for he had entered primary school where discipline was tough, and his father had just retired from the civil service.1 Adolf was faced with orders everywhere he turned and his father, Alois, often resorted to beating his boys. This was enough to harden a young, impressionable mind, and would later reflect upon him as Führer. Eventually, the family moved to town, where he attended school at the local Roman Catholic monastery, decorated with swastikas on their official coat-of-arms. And he frequently read novels about the American West, especially those written by Karl May, whose stories often portrayed cowboys defeating Native Americans with “sheer will-power and bravery,”.2 Hitler’s family soon moved again to the small village of Leonding, Austria on the German border. Here, Hitler discovered his knack for art which overshadowed Alois’ desire for his son to follow in his footsteps …show more content…

His heart swelling with passion for the cause, Hitler applied to join the German army, despite his Austrian citizenship.4 In 1914, his request was accepted and soon Hitler was plunged into the trenches of the Great War. His time as a soldier was cut short after being injured at the Somme, however, he went on to receive the Iron Cross First Class and the Black Wound Badge. Germany’s surrender in 1918 reestablished his fervent nationalism and he believed, like many other nationalists, “that the German Army had been betrayed by civilian leaders and Marxists”.4 To even further his deep-embroiled hatred and anger, the Treaty of Versailles, dreamed up by the Allied powers, forced Germany to accept full blame for the war and to pay ridiculous reparations, of which Germany just didn’t have. What particularly baited Hitler was the demilitarization of the Rhineland. After World War I, he returned to Munich and spent his time monitoring the German Worker’s Party (DAP) of which elevated his anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist ways. In 1919 he was asked to join the DAP and he did so with enthusiasm. He went so far as to design the banner for the newly dubbed Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP).4 The banner was of infamous swastika that he would go on to adopt as the official symbol of his Nazi Party. During this

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