"The driving force of the most important changes in this world have been found less in scientific knowledge

animating the masses but rather in a fanaticism dominating them and in a hysteria which drives them forward".
— Adolph Hitler

HITLER'S BIO

OCCUPATION: DICTATOR
OF GERMANY (FÜHRER)
BORN: April 20, 1889 in
Braunau (Austria)
DIED: April 30, 1945 in Berlin
(Germany)
BEST KNOWN FOR: Starting
WWIIand the Holocaust

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HARSH TREATY OF
CHRONOLOGY
VERSAILLES

EARLY LIFE

Grew up in Linz, early ambition to gain drawing upon

entrance to Vienna's art academy failed, strong Anti-semitic
got by as an artist for soap & deodorant sentiment, blamed
GERMANY ANGERED DEPRESSION: HIGHER ads, having few expenses since not Jews for keeping
HAD BEEN GERMANS & TARIFFS LEAD TO married, no drinking or smoking
him out
BETRAYED DESTABILIZED
MODERATE GERMANY'S INTERNATIONAL
BUT WEAK OVERDEPENDANCE TENSIONS
GER ON AMERICAN
WEIMAR
ECONOMICALLY LOANS
1913 move to Munich
ARMISTICE HAD REPUBLIC
AND
BEEN SIGNED BEFORE
ALLIED TROOPS REACH POLITICALLY 1914
GER SOIL join German army
being a loner,
serve army w. distinction, wounded enjoyed war &
twice (once by poison gas) & comradeship
GERMANS PUT COLLAPSE decorated for bravery
BLAME ON CAN'T MAINTAIN LAW & WITH THE
BANKERS, ORDER STOCK MARKET
CATHOLICS, JEWS CRASH 1929 1918 November feels disappointed & betrayed w. Ger surrender blame Jews for Ger's
plight

after 1921 took control of Nazi party

WWI serve as reservist, spying on political parties
(became seventh member &
found a new talent: speech making later leader)
attract large
RISE OF HITLER & NAZIS WHO BELIEVE IN audiences &
funds

MASTER ARYAN HATRED OF JEWS, SLAVS AVENGING TREATY

AND OTHER "INFERIOR" Nazi ideas
RACE RACES OF VERSAILLES
Jews should be
MARTIN LUTHER deprived of their
property
persecution & hatred of Jews go
THE IDEA OF ARYAN SUPER-RACE ROOTED IN FRIEDRICH NEITZSCHE'S back to Middle Ages
NAZIS GAIN SUPPORT DURING DEPRESSION USING A COMBINATION ÜBERMENSCH=NEW SUPERIOR TYPE OF HUMAN): “A daring and ruler race is
OF building itself up...The aim should be to prepare a transvaluation of values for a conspiracies (execution of Christ, conspire w
particularly strong kind of man, most highly gifted in intellect & will. This man and the Devil to cause Black Death)
elite around him will become the 'lords of the earth'” — The Will to Power

1923 HITLER'S PUTSCH TOTAL DISASTER (OVERTHROW GOVERNMENT)-MEIN KAMPF ("MY STRUGGLE")

PROPAGANDA +FREE FOOD & STREET FIGHTS VS COMM'S

FESTIVALS TO WIN TO EMBARRASS WEAK GER.
POPULARITY GOVERNMENT

1934: NIGHT OF LONG KNIVES

It was hoped that the new uniform help the SS to

attract recruits from white collar professional who had PROBLEMS WITH SA
been reluctant to join the more proletarian SA.
(STURMABTEILUNG)- HITLER'S
PRIVATE ARMY: 1. TAKE CONTROL
OF BIG BUSINESS 2. PUT SA IN
1932 RICH GERMAN INDUSTRIALISTS PRESSURE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE HITLER CHARGE OF REGULAR ARMY 3. MOST
CHANCELLOR (1933) TO STOP COMMIES ARMY OFFICERS SAW SA AS
UNDISCIPLINED THUGS 4. HITLER DID
NOT WANT TO LOSE THE SUPPORT OF
INDUSTRIALISTS

NAZIS BURN THE REICHSTAG & BLAME THE COMMUNISTS® EMEREGENCY POWERS & HITLER FEARS SA WAS GETTING
LEGAL BASIS FOR HITLER'S DICTATORSHIP POWERFUL, POSING A THREAT TO HIS
LEADERSHIP

FROM CHANCELLOR TO DICTATOR (1933-1938)

SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL)
MARINUS VAN DER LUBBE
HITLER WORKS TO INCREASE HIS OWN POWER
PROP TO CRUSH ENEMIES 1

MAKING JEWS SCAPEGOATS

7X ITS 1933 LEVEL

TERROR, GOV POWERS &

REARMING GER

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