Adolf Hitler

            In the year of 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in an Inn located in Austria-Hungary. Adolf was the fourth child born out of Klara and Alois Hitler. Hitler didn’t have a very good relationship with his father. He was more close to his mother because his father was a strict man who frequently beat him. Hitler was a good student all the way up to sixth grade, where he failed and had to repeat the sixth grade.  Hitler’s father had wanted him to enter the civil service, and Adolf wanted to be an artists. Because of this, he rebelled against his father and didn’t try hard in school. While he was going to school, Adolf started to come up with his political views. Hitler started to believe in a strong sense of German nationalism, the beginnings of anti-Semitism, and also he started to have dislike for the ruling family and political structure of Austria-Hungary. It is said that Hitler was among the crowd of German-speaking citizens of Austria-Hungary who considered themselves initially and primarily a German. Hitler’s father died in the month of January of 1903. This death had changed his family in a huge way. The sum of money that they were getting in the house wasn’t enough to support Hitler, his sister, and also his mom. After his father had died, Hitler started to spend most of his time playing and dreaming. He didn’t put much effort in his studies, and eventually in 1905, when he would have been a ninth grader, Hitler dropped out of school completely.

                After being denied by multiple art schools, Hitler served in the war. Hitler was stationed in France and Belgium where he participated in the sixteenth Bavarian Reserve Regiment. When the war ended, Hitler became a Gefreiter, in other words, Hitler was a lance corporal. Hitler’s job in the war was a runner. His job was one of the most dangerous jobs and he was constantly being exposed to enemy fire. In October of 1918, Hitler became temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack and he was admitted to a field hospital. The doctors had said the blindness that Hitler was experiencing, was a result of a conversion disorder, or known as hysteria. During this time, Hitler had said he became convinced that his whole purpose in life was to save Germany.

After the World War I ended, Hitler had remained in the army and he returned to Munich. After the suppression of the Bavarian Soviet Republic, Hitler took part in the national thinking courses.  In 1919, Hitler became a police spy of the Intelligence Commando of the Reichswehr. While he was there, Adolf became utterly impressed with Anton Drexler’s point of view on ideas of a strong active government. A year later, Hitler was discharged from the army and yet he still continued to participate full time in the party’s activities. By going to these parties, Hitler became used to speaking in front of large crowds. In 1921, Adolf Hitler was voted Fuhrere of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party.  In 1923, Hitler and six hundred armed members of the SA, a Nazi paramilitary force, marched on a Munich beer hall where Gustav von Kahr. Hitler took von Kahr and all his other associates hostage and declared in von Kahr’s name the formation of a new national government.  After the new movement was underway, Von Kahr was released and he immediately retracted the statement and outlawed the Nazi party. He also ordered the Bavarian police to crush Hitler’s revolution. The next day, Hitler and his men led a march to the center of Munich. The police stopped the march and started shooting. Sixteen of Hitler’s followers were killed. Hitler had no choice but to flee the scene but he was soon arrested and tried in court. Hitler was sentenced for five years in prison for treason, but was released after less than one year.  While Hitler was in prison, Hitler dictated the first volume of Mein Kampf. Once he was released, Hitler continued with the second volume of Mein Kampf.

                Over the years, Hitler regained power and he still got more haters as the years passed. There had been multiple attempts of assassinations but Hitler was never defeated. The conspirators had tried to launch their coup, but they didn’t have a lot of support. In result, the effort failed. The hundred of followers that had been involved in the coup were executed. Hitler still rose to the top and maintained control of the country. In 1945, Hitler started to have nervous breakdowns. On one of his breakdowns, Hitler admitted himself that Germany was defeated and they would lose the war. Adolf started to express how he wanted to kill himself. He went to a doctor and asked for a reliable way to kill himself. The doctor had suggested a combining of a dose of cyanide and a gunshot to the head. Hitler already had a supply of the cyanide capsules. After that, he started showing the signs of paranoia. April 29, 1945, Hitler married a young woman named Eva Braun. The next day Hitler and his wife locked themselves in his personal study. People, who stood on the outside of the room, said that they heard a gunshot. Hitler’s valet went into the room to inspect what was going on. The Valet had found Hitler and Eva dead on the couch. Hitler had shot himself in the head. Since there weren’t any visible shot wounds, doctors believed that Eva had poisoned herself.