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Age of extremes
Few names from history inspire such immediate and emphatic revulsion as that of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. His hands are stained with the blood of millions killed in the devastation of the Second World War and the horror of the Holocaust.
But Hitler was not born a brutal tyrant, he became one. Explore Hitler's life and discover the road that led to destruction.
Apr 1889
Birth and childhood
Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April in the small Austrian town of Braunau am Inn, in Upper Austria on the Austrian-German border.
His father, Alois, was a customs official while his mother, Klara, came from a poor peasant family. Life was financially comfortable for the Hitler family but Alois was a domineering character and young Adolf frequently found himself on the wrong side of his father's short temper. At primary school Hitler was a clever, popular child. At secondary school he withdrew psychologically, preferring to re-enact battles from the Boer War
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We explore Adolf Hitler, his life and childhood. In addition, we discuss his general characteristics and ideas.
Who was Adolf Hitler?
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born military officer and politician who spearheaded Nazism in Germany. He was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and was one of the key political figures during World War II (1939-1945). He was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
A frustrated painter, he dedicated his life to politics. He had a relationship and married Eva Braun, who was twenty-three years his junior. Hitler had no children. He was called “the Führer,” which means chief or leader in German.
In his early military career, he participated in World War I (1914-1918), where he attained the rank of corporal. He was highly critical of the Treaty of Versailles (1919), which imposed severe war reparations on Germany, and led the National Socialist German Workers' Party, more commonly known as the Nazi P • Before embarking on a political career in September 1919 at the age of thirty, Adolf Hitler had been a nonentity. With no formal qualifications, he had become an aimless drifter and failed artist before joining the army on the outbreak of war in August 1914. There he was not considered worthy of promotion because of 'a lack of leadership qualities', although his award of the Iron Cross First Class showed that he did not lack courage. Yet during the next 26 years he succeeded in gaining and exercising supreme power in Germany and, in the process, arguably had more impact on the history of the world in the 20th century than any other political figure. The explanation for this remarkable transformation lies partly in Hitler himself, in his particular personal qualities and gifts, and partly in the situation in which he found himself, with a nation in deep crisis. Hitler's political career began in Munich when he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP), a tiny group of e
The drifter