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  A Life in Time Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
• Adolf Hitler was born


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• Adolf Hitler


  • Born in Austria
  • Had a poor relationship with his father
  • Grew up Catholic
  • Expelled from a couple of schools
  • Moved to Vienna in 1905 to pursue his dream of becoming an artist
  • Found he did not have much artistic talent
  • Soon became very poor
  • His mother died in 1907
  • Moved to Munich in 1914 hoping to become an architect
• World War I


  1. Joined the German army

  2. Served as a messenger during the war

  3. Decorated with the Iron Cross for bravery
• National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) or Nazi Party


  • Hitler joined after the war
  • By 1921, he had become the leader of the Nazi Party
• Rise to power


  1. Imprisoned for the failed revolution known as the Beer Hall Putsch

  2. Wrote Main Kampf or "My Struggle" while in prison

  3. Revived the Nazi Party after his release

  4. Incredibly persuasive speaker

  5. Used propaganda to great effect

  6. Founded the SS and the Gestapo to remove any threats to his power

  7. Opponents were either killed or sent to hard labour camps

  8. Became German Chancellor in 1933

  9. When President Hindenburg died in August 1934, abolished the presidency and declared himself Führer, leader of Germany
• Hitler's beliefs and methods

  • Anti-Semitism led to the creation of the Nuremberg Laws and the Holocaust
  • Forced Jewish people to go to concentration camps, where six million Jews were killed during World War II
  • Believed in a master race and had so-called 'inferior groups of people imprisoned, exiled or killed
  • Wanted to unite German-speaking peoples into an empire called the Third Reich, expanding its territory under a policy he named Lebensraum, meaning "living space for ethnic Germans"
• World War II


  1. Directly defied the Treaty of Versailles by joining with Austria (the Anschluss) and remilitarising the Rhineland

  2. Germany's 1939 invasion of Poland on his orders marked the outbreak of World War II

  3. As the Red Army surrounded Berlin, Hitler married his girlfriend Eva Braun

  4. On 30 April 1945, the couple took their own lives before they could be arrested by the Red Army
• Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
• A Jewish date was made by a Jewish date and spoke of Hitler's young love for peace
• This chapter was about World War II and Fascism
• The National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) or Nazi Party was founded in 1919
• Hitler became the leader of the Nazi Party in November
• Main Kampf or "My Struggle" was written by Hitler while in prison
• The Weimar government was undermined by Hitler's propaganda
• In January 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany
• Hitler used the SS and the Gestapo to remove threats to his power
• The Nuremberg Laws were created by Hitler
• Hitler imposed his vision of the "Master Race" on the German public
• Hitler used the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls to indoctrinate the youth
• Hitler wrote Main Kampf