Translated by Shaimaa Alhossan

Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was a struggling young artist who became a
feared dictator. He led his country into a bloody war that
killed millions of people.


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Hitler rose to power in Germany in the 1930s. He
eventually started World War II (1939-1945), a conflict
that left Europe in ruins.
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HITLERS CHILDHOOD
Adolf Hitler was born in 1889. He came from a well-to-do
family in Austria-Hungary. His father was an important
government worker. After his father died, Hitler quit
school in the ninth grade. He decided to become an artist
but had trouble finding work.

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WORLD WAR I
Hilter volunteered for the German army during World War
I (1914-1918) and served the whole war. Germany lost the
war, and the country suffered terribly. Many Germans
became jobless and poor. The people wanted someone to
lead them back to glory again. Hitler wanted to be that
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RISE TO POWER
After the war, Hitler joined the National German Socialists
Workers Party. Many people called it the Nazi Party, for
short. Hitler was an excellent public speaker. He appealed
to German pride by constantly speaking about their racial
superiority. This was the idea that one type of people are
naturally better than others. He blamed other people,
especially Jews, for Germanys problems. His speeches
attracted thousands of people who thought Hitler could be
a great leader. The Nazi Party grew rapidly.


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Hitler ran for political office in Germany and was elected in
1930. Three years later, in January 1933, Hitler became
Germanys chancellor, which was similar to a president.
He immediately passed laws giving himself total power.
Soon, Hitler had become a dictator. He controlled
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Hitler passed laws to get rid of people he did not like. They
included his political enemies and Germans who were
disabled or Jewish. Many of these people were sent to
large camps, where they were held prisoner. Huge
numbers of people were killed.

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WORLD WAR II
Hitler also began rebuilding Germanys military. He
wanted a powerful army so he could conquer other
countries, and eventually take over the world. He started
by declaring Germany's union with the neighboring
country of Austria. Then he ordered German troops to
occupy all of Czechoslovakia. When Hitlers army invaded
Poland in 1939, Great Britain and France declared war on
Germany. World War II had begun.



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Germanys mighty army soon captured France and began
bombing England. In 1941, Hitlers armies also invaded
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), often called
Russia. This turned out to be a big mistake because the
German army had trouble fighting in several countries at
once.

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HITLERS SUICIDE
The United States entered World War II in December 1941.
Slowly, Germany began to lose the war. America and its
allies launched the D-Day invasion of Western Europe on
June 6, 1944. They fought their way through France and
into Germany in 1945. Facing defeat, Hitler killed himself.
His reign of terror was finally over.

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