April 20 1889 Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria. 1913
Hitler moved from Austria to Munich, Germany at age 24. 1914-1918
Hitler was a Corporal in the German Army in World War I. July 1919
Hitler is told to infiltrate and spy on the German Workers Party.
February 1920 The German Workers Party is renamed National
Socialist German Workers Party. 1921 Hitler becomes the leader of
the Nazi Party. November 1923 Hitler starts a 9 month jail term for
trying to seize power through revolution. September 1930 - The Nazi
Party wins 107 seats in the German parliamentary election. January
30 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germanys coalition government.
August 1934 Hitler becomes dictator of Germany. 1934 Hitler creates
the Schultzstaffel (Protection Squad) also known as the SS.
1938-1939 Germany invades Austria and Czechoslovakia. 1939 Germany
invades Poland and World War II starts. April 30 1945 Adolf Hitler
commits suicide at age 56 and the Nazi empire is overthrown.
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National Socialism (Nazism) was the German Fascist movement
founded by Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany in 1919. The movements
full title was the National Socialist German Workers Party. It
became an ideology that combined elements of fascism, biological
racism, and anti-Semitism. After being democratically elected,
Hitler and the Nazi Party promoted a managed economy (a form of
Nationalism) that was neither capitalist nor communist (but rather
Socialism) to extract Germany from the effects of both their loss
in WWI and the Great Depression. Hitler and the Nazis believed in
the supremacy of the Aryan race and that the German people were the
purest of the Aryan nations. They also believed that the Jews were
the greatest threat to the Aryan race and therefore to Germany.
Nazism died when Hitler blew his brains out. The Nazi Party was
banned in Germany and its remaining top leaders were convicted of
crimes against humanity.
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Hitler used his talent as a political agitator and public
speaking to fool the downtrodden German people into buying into the
vision of Nazism that he painted for them and to democratically
elect his Nazi Party into power. Once elected, he used his other
talent as a calculating and ruthless politician to eliminate his
opposition and seize absolute power. His fanatical nationalism and
his passion for complete power allowed him to steer the Nazi Party
past its nationalism and socialism platforms to the more radical
platforms of territorial expansion and ethnic cleansing. The rise
and fall of Hitler and Nazism is one of the most horrible episodes
in all of human history. All that Nazism left behind was hatred,
destruction, and a warning. The story of Hitler and the Nazis shows
what happens when a nation gives itself up to the evils of violence
and race supremacy.
Slide 5
The New World Book of Knowledge. Eyewitness Books World War II.
www.history.uk.co