Adolf Hitler Life In Concentration Camp Essay

Life in concentration camps

January 1933 was the worse time for Jewish people. In January 1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor and the first concentration camp was built. Adolf Hitler was born into a middle class family in April of 1889. His father, who died in 1903, was an Austrian customs official whom young Adolf quickly learned to fear. His mother, whom he loved very much, died four years later in 1907. Adolf dropped out of high school and moved to Vienna, hoping to become an artist. He was twice rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, so he lived off of his father’s pension and spent his early twenties working as a freelance painter of postcards and advertisements (“Adolf Hitler,” pars. 3-4). Vienna at this time was very nationalistic, and it was here that Hitler came into contact with the Christian Socialist Party, which espoused anti-Semitic ideas and
He agreed with these ideas and began to thoroughly despise Jews and by extension Marxism, which he believed to be a Jewish concept. Although he had previously been classified as physically unfit for military service by the Austrian government, once war had been declared in 1914 he immediately volunteered for the German army. He was injured during the war and received the prestigious Iron Cross, First Class in recognition of his bravery (Craig et al. 967).Following the war, Hitler joined the German Worker’s Party, later to be renamed the Nazi party, and was soon put in charge of the party’s propaganda. He had found his niche. It was in the German Worker’s Party that Hitler met Ernst Röhm, who helped him quickly rise in the party ranks and later became one of Hitler’s top advisors. Party leaders felt threatened by Hitler’s ambition and bold propaganda. Nevertheless, in July 1921 Hitler was made party leader and began to hold weekly meetings, during which he gave speeches that were eventually attended by thousands of people, including several men who would