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- More than twelve million people were killed in
- concentration camps, six million were Jewish. All of these
- horrifying events were consequences of the evening, April
- 20, 1889, when the one man responsible for all of this was
- born.
- Adolf Hitler was born into a loving family of small
- farmers and craftsmen. He had one half-sister, Angela, and
- one half-brother, Alois, Jr. Hitler's mother loved him very
- much and anyone could tell, because she showered him with
- affection.
- In his early school years, Adolf was a truly good student.
- He even took singing lessons and sang in the choir at a
- Benedictine monastery. He found the church festivals
- fascinating. His enthusiasm for the church soon began to
- fade, though. As his teen years approached, he began to
- rebel against the church and the career plans that his father
- had made. These plans were for him to become a civil
- servant, just as he had been. Hitler loved art and wanted to
- become a painter. He refused to go by his father's plans.
- This was just one thing that him and his father did not get
- along about. There really wasn't much they did agree on.
- Sometimes Alois criticized and even struck his son.
- Although they didn't get along very well, Adolf was
- devastated at his father's death when he was a merely
- thirteen years old. He even cried when he saw his body
- laying in the casket.
- Hitler was devoted to his mother and loved her deeply.
- She was very kind to him and encouraged to be an artist, or
- whatever else he decided to be. He even thought of himself
- as his mother's darling, and he carried her picture with him
- everywhere he went.
- In 1905, Hitler visited the country where he would later
- become dictator. While he was there, as a pale and sickly
- looking teenager, he stuck everyone as a shy and reserved
- young man. After that, he spent a few months studying,
- drawing in Munich, Germany.
- In October of 1907, he moved to Vienna, planning to
- study art. He applied to the Academy of Fine Arts Academy,
- but got rejected. The next year, in December, his beloved
- mother, Klara passed away. Later that year, he applied
- again for the art academy, but got rejected again.
- In the month of October, 1914, World War One broke
- out and Hitler joined the Bovarian Army. Hitler felt he needed
- to defend Germany, his adopted country. On August 4,
- 1918, Hitler was awarded the Iron Cross, First Class for
- bravery. Then, on June28, 1919, Germany signed the Treaty
- of Versailles, ending WW1.
- Several years later , in 1942, Hitler and his army
- shattered many lives by capturing and killing the inferior
- races the slowest and most painful ways possible. The
- inferior races, according to him were all Jewish people, the
- terminally ill, the physically and mentally handicapped, and
- anyone not of German descent. Hitler was a horrible and sick
- man, who brought on tough times for all people. Many
- people agree that it was very hard to speak up and if you did,
- you would get killed. Hitler even had doctors testing to find
- the most painful and horrible deaths on people.
- Hitler had a great relationship with his mother, but he
- and his father argued most of time. His father even beat him
- on occasion. Hitler was a scrawny and sickly looking boy
- who only had only one friend. He had gotten rejected from
- art school twice. All of this made him feel that he had no
- purpose in the world. Doing these horrible things probably
- made him think that he was making people feel the same
- way he felt all of those years and for a small amount of time,
- made him feel better about himself.
- I think that the German people were willing to follow and
- believe Hitler, because they had been through some rough
- times and would believe anyone who said that they could
- give them jobs and raise their income. They also wanted to
- hear that they were the best and when he said this, he won
- many Germans over.
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