The Holocaust: The Rise Of Adolf Hitler

The Holocaust was a repulsive act of genocide. Millions were murdered because of the beliefs of one man, Adolf Hitler. In Germanys lowest time after World War I, Hitler had many followers believing the Jewish people were at fault for these troubles. How did this man get this status? How did he get so much power over all these people? There are details from Hitler’s life and rise to power, and the attempts on his life that led to these mass murders, now known as The Holocaust. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was born April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria. He was born to Alois and Klara Hitler. Hitler wanted to go to art school at the Vienna Academy of the Arts. He was not accepted both times he applied. He moved to Vienna in 1907. He was very
He took over Sarrland and Rhineland. He invaded Poland September 1, 1939. “On September 3, 1939 France and Britain declared war” (Leroy 20). April 1940 Norway and Denmark fell to the Nazis. Hitler defeated Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxemburg. Next, he wanted to take France. “French Head of State asked for an armistice, which was signed on May 20” (Leroy 29). He still ended up taking France. His next plan was to take over Soviet Russia. June 22, 1941 began to try and take the USSR and had initial success. The United States entered into the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7, 1941, so Hitler declared war on the U.S.. The “Soviet troops led a counterattack and annihilated the German troops in Stalingrad” (Leroy 36). In 1944, the Allies were right on the heels of the Third Reich. The Allies invaded Hitler’s country. In April 1945, the war was almost over. Hitler did not want to be captured alive. April 30, 1945, he shut himself bunker in Berlin. The Soviets surrounded and then invaded Berlin. Hitler then shot himself instead of giving himself up. Hitler did horrible things during his time in
Though he did have enemies. Some even tried to take his life, but could not succeed. The first attempt on his life was in November 1921. He was giving a speech “at Munich’s famed Hoflbrauhaus beer hall” (history.com/news). A fight broke out and a group fired shots towards Hitler. He was unharmed during this. In 1938, a Swiss student Maurice Bavaud tried to assassinate Hitler during a parade, but got blocked by the crowd right when Hitler was close enough for him to take a shot. November 8, 1939, at 9:20 p.m. a bomb was set to go off by Georg Elser at Munich’s Burgerbraukeller brewery. He set a 144-hour timer on the bomb. Unfortunately for him Hitler changed the time of the speech he was supposed to give at 9:20 p.m. to 8 p.m. When the bomb went off Hitler was not present. March 13, 1943, Hitler was going to visit a German military officer Henning Von Tresckow. “Before the Fuhrer and his entourage boarded their pane for the return trip, Tresckow approached a member of Hitler’s staff and asked if the man would take a parcel containing two bottles of Cointreau brandy to a friend in Berlin. The officer obliged, not knowing that the package actually held plastic explosives rigged to a 30-minute fuse” (history.com/news). The bomb never went off because of a faulty fuse. A week later Tresckow and another gentlemen Rudolf Von Gertsdorff planned another attempt