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title = The Rise and Fall of Hitler Reich
The Rise and Fall of Hitlers Reich
Feeling that all was lost, Hitler shot himself on April 30, 1945. By orders formally
given by him before his death, SS officers immersed Hitler?s body in gasoline and
burned it in the garden of the Chancellery. Soon after the suicide of Hitler, the Germ
On Easter Sunday April 20, 1889, at an inn called the Gasth of Zum Pommer, the wife
of an Austrian Customs official gave birth to a son, Adolf Hitler. He was the fourth
child to the parents of Alois and Klara Hitler of Austria. Hitler was a good student. One
of the teachers in his high school classified young Hitler as “notorious, cantankerous,
willful, arrogant, and irascible. He has an obvious difficulty in fitting in at school.” He
did well enough to get by in some of his courses but had no time for Adolf saw no real
reason to stay in high school. He left school at age sixteen without a leaving
certificate. In September 1907, Hitler left home taking with him all the money left to
him by his father, who had died a few years earlier. The money would preliminary
examination, the applicant was asked to submit drawings. Biblical drawings were
most preferred. Hitler?s drawings were returned saying they were “too wooden and
too lifeless.” He was rejected. He tried three months later and did not get pa Hitler
moved into an apartment with his friend in Vienna. He pretended to be a student living
off his relatives money. He read many books and sat in on the Austrian government
sessions . Hitler speaks of his life in Vienna as “five years in which I had In 1913,
Hitler moved to Munich. Life was not much better there until the First World War
started in 1914. While many people were frightened and sad at the thought of a world
war, Hitler was delighted. He held the rank of corporal, and in forty-seven b On
October 13th 1918, a month before Germany surrendered to the Allies, his good luck
ran out. When Hitler and his fellow dispatch runners were waiting in line for their food
rations, British troops began lobbing high explosive shells nearby. Some of th Hitler
soon regained use of his eyes, but as he was about to rejoin his regiment, he got the
terrible news of Germany?s surrender. “Once again, everything went black before my
eyes, and I tottered and groped my way back to the place where we slept and bu As
part of Hitler?s job, he investigated a party called “the German Workers? Party.” He
was disgusted how the group had no organization, although he was in favor of many
of the party?s ideas. To follow up with his job, he joined the group to make sure t Hitler
finally found his talent as a great orator. He first became aware of his talent while
teaching at the University of Munich. When he talked, he held his audiences
spellbound. He would sometimes lose five pounds a night by getting so active in his
He persuaded the other party members to rent one of the largest halls in Munich?one
that seated at least 2,000 people. There Hitler made of list of demands to the German
government. Point twenty-five said, “For modern society, a colossus with feet of cl
Ernst Rohm, a friend of Hitler?s, organized a group of storm troopers for Hitler. The
German name for storm troopers was Storm Abtcilung, or SA for short. They first beat
and killed hecklers at Nazi speakings. When there were no hecklers, they found Je
By the summer of 1923, the Nazi party had grown to 150,000 members. With the Nazi
movement growing so rapidly, Hitler knew it was time to make a move on Germany.
November 11, 1923 seemed like a perfect time for Hitler to make the grab for power. It
was Hitler captured the government leaders and forced them to join him. His 3,000
men then marched to Berlin in an attempt to take it over. The German police were
waiting. Shots were fired and sixteen nazis and two policemen lay dead. Hundreds
more were w The trial was a “political circus”. Hitler was allowed to speak for hours at
a time. During one of his speeches he said, “It is the External Court of History ? That
court will judge us ? as Germans who wanted the best for their people and their
fatherla Hitler served only nine months of his five-year sentence. The guards gave
him a suite of several adjoining rooms where guests could come or go as they
pleased. He was sent many gifts and grew visibly fatter. He wrote a book called Mein
Kampf, or My Str The government banned the Nazi party after the revolt. There were
also many reasons for lack of Nazi activity. The Allies had loosened their grip on the
German economy. The French had left the Ruhr leaving Germany?s industries intact,
and the United St The depression in America caused the economic system in
Germany to plummet. Because of the harsh times, Nazis got two million more votes
then the Communist party. The election put them just
under the Democratic party and gave them 107 more seats in the House. Hitler was
planning on running for President of Germany against Paul Von Hinderburg, a social
democrat. Hitler campaigned frequently, going to every major city and town. He was
the f By 1932 the SA troops numbered 400,000. The SA?s goal was to make people
afraid, and they accomplished that with ease. One of the most popular chants of the
SA troops is as follows: “Sharpen the knives on the sidewalk so that they can cut the
enemy?s bo In the election of 1932, Hitler could not beat out the eighty-five year old
President Hindenburg. However, 230 Nazi candidates held seats, and Hitler was
made Chancellor of Germany. It was the second highest position in the German
government. With only Hitler still was not elected to the Presidency. Using force,
Hitler got Hinderburg to pass a law that abolished freedom of speech, of the press,
and of assembly. Hitler then brought before the court the Enabling Act. This law gave
Hitler the power of a After the bills were passed, the German military feared that when
Hitler took full leadership of the country, they would lose control, and the SA would
take over. Hitler assured the military that this was not true. To gain their trust, he gave
them a li In August of 1934 President Hindenburg died. Hitler?s last obstacle in his
quest for complete power was removed. Using his unlimited powers, he combined the
offices of president and chancellor. To everyone in Germany he was now Der Fuhrer,
the leader. Avoiding capture by the approaching forces, Hitler shot himself on April
30, 1945. The world was never the same again. Hitler?s Reich was over, and millions
of jews were dead. Quite rightly, the world asked questions: How could this have
happened? Tru