Hitlar's biography and relation with world war

Family

He was the fourth of the six children of Alois Hitler, a customs official fond of alcohol, and his third wife, the peasant Klara Hitler, for whom his son felt great devotion throughout his life. Three of his siblings, Gustav, Ida and Otto, died in infancy. When he was three years old, the family moved to Passau, Germany.

Studies

Adolf Hitler was a mediocre student who did not finish high school. He applied to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, but was not admitted due to lack of talent. He remained in that city until 1913, where he lived thanks to an orphan's pension and some income from the pictures he painted.

First World War

In World War I he enlisted as a volunteer in the Bavarian Army. Hitler proved to be a dedicated and brave soldier, although the highest rank he achieved was that of corporal, because his superiors considered that he lacked leadership skills.

After the defeat of Germany in 1918, he returned to Munich and remained in the Army until 1920. He was made a training officer and given the task of immunizing the soldiers under his charge against pacifist and democratic ideas.

Nazism

Hitler joined the nationalist German Workers' Party in September 1919, and by April 1920 he was devoting all his time to it. By this time, it had been renamed the National Socialist German Labor Party (known for short as the Nazi party) and Hitler was elected its president (Führer) in 1921 with dictatorial powers.

He spread his doctrine of racial hatred and contempt for democracy at the numerous rallies he organized and, meanwhile, the party's paramilitary organizations terrorized his political enemies. He soon became a key figure in Bavarian politics thanks to the collaboration of high-ranking officers and wealthy businessmen.

The Munich Putsch

In November 1923, at a time of political and economic chaos, he led a rebellion in Munich against the Weimar Republic, in which he proclaimed himself chancellor of a new authoritarian regime. However, the so-called Munich putsch failed due to lack of military support. Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison as the leader of the attempted coup, and he devoted the eight months he served to writing his autobiography: Mein Kampf (My Struggle). He was freed thanks to a general amnesty in December 1924.

During the economic crisis of 1929, many Germans accepted his theory that it was explained as a conspiracy between Jews and communists. He managed to attract the vote of millions of citizens by promising to rebuild a strong Germany, create more jobs and restore national glory.

The representation of the Nazi party in the Reichstag went from 12 deputies in 1928 to 107 in 1930. The party continued to grow during the following two years, taking advantage of the situation created by the increase in unemployment, the fear of communism and the lack of decision of its rivals. politicians.

In September 1931, his half-niece, Geli Raubal, committed suicide with Hitler's gun in her Munich apartment. Geli is believed to have been in a romantic relationship with her uncle and her death was a source of lasting grief.

Third Reich

When Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in January 1933, big businessmen expected to be able to control him easily. Despite what was foreseen by the economic power, once he became head of the government, he soon proclaimed himself dictator of the nation, accumulating the Presidency of the Reich and the chancery with the title of Reichsführer.

Thousands of citizens opposed to the Nazi party were sent to concentration camps and any hint of opposition was eliminated. His parliamentary majority enabled him to pass a law transferring control of the bureaucracy and the judicial system to the Nazi party, replacing the unions with a Nazi-run German Labor Front, and banning all political parties except the National Socialist.

The Nazi authorities took control of the economy, the media and all cultural activities, making jobs depend on loyalty to their ideology. He had his secret police, the Gestapo, and with prisons and concentration camps to intimidate his opponents, although most Germans enthusiastically supported him.

The rise of the arms industry wiped out unemployment, workers were drawn to an ambitious leisure program, and foreign policy successes impressed the nation. In this way, he managed to mold the German people into the flexible tool he needed to establish Germany's dominance over Europe and other parts of the world.

He ridiculed the concept of equality between human beings and claimed the racial superiority of the Germans. Since they considered themselves members of a superior race they believed they had the right to dominate all the nations they had subjugated.

Adolf Hitler initiated the rearmament of Germany in 1935 (against what was agreed in the Treaty of Versailles that had ended World War I in relation to the defeated Germany), sent troops to the demilitarized region of the Rhineland in 1936, and annexed Austria and the Sudetenland (Sudeten); of Czechoslovakia in 1938. The rest of Czechoslovakia came under German control in March 1939.

Hitler came to the aid of rebel troops in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), led by Francisco Franco. None of the leaders of other countries opposed these actions, puzzled by the fear that a new war would break out.

Second World War

He signed the German-Soviet neutrality pact with the promise that he would cede a part of the territory of Poland to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) when this nation was defeated, for which he attacked it in September 1939. The Poles were subjected to quickly and their allies, the British and the French, who had declared war on Germany, could do nothing to help them. Hitler's forces invaded Denmark and Norway in the spring of 1940, defeating troops from the Netherlands, Belgium, and France a few weeks later. the defeat of

Britain was prevented by the intervention of the Royal Air Force (RAF), which repulsed the Luftwaffe (German air force).

He turned his attention to the Soviet Union. Adolf Hitler's first step was to conquer the Balkan Peninsula to protect this flank. The invasion of the USSR, which began in June 1941, soon brought the German armies to the gates of Moscow, but the Russians forced them back in December, precisely when the United States decided to intervene in the conflict.

Defeat

A time passed, defeat became more inevitable, but Hitler continued to refuse to capitulate, believing that Germany did not deserve to survive for failing to accomplish its mission. On the other hand, the plan to exterminate the Jews continued in progress throughout this period, and the innumerable trains that transported the millions of prisoners to the concentration camps represented a blight on the economic effort of the war.

In July 1944, a group of officers organized a conspiracy to assassinate him and end the war, but the plan failed.

By late 1944, the Red Army and the Western Allies were advancing on Germany. On December 16, he launched an offensive in the Ardennes that failed.

On April 20, his 56th birthday, he made the last public appearance of himself coming out of the Führerbunker (Führer's refuge) to the surface. In the ruined garden of the Reich Chancellery, he handed out Iron Crosses to some child soldiers fighting near Berlin.

On April 23, the Red Army completely surrounded Berlin, and Joseph Goebbels urged his citizens to defend the city. On that same day, Hermann Göring argues that with Hitler isolated in Berlin, he, Göring, must assume the leadership of Germany. Hitler responded by having Göring arrested. On April 28 he discovered that Heinrich Himmler, who left Berlin on April 20, was trying to negotiate surrender with the Western Allies, for which he also ordered his arrest.

Eva Brown

Finally, leaving an invaded and defeated Germany behind him, after midnight on April 29, he married Eva Braun with a simple ceremony in the Führerbunker. After a wedding breakfast with his wife, he dictated to his secretary Traudl Junge his will. That same afternoon, he was informed of the execution of Benito Mussolini.

Suicide

On April 30, 1945, after intense street-to-street and house-to-house fighting, when Soviet troops were within a block or two of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler and Braun committed suicide; Braun bit into a cyanide capsule and Hitler shot himself. Their bodies were carried through the bunker's emergency exit to the bombed-out garden behind the Chancellery, where, after being placed in a bomb crater, they were doused with gasoline and burned as the Red Army shelling continued.

diseases and addictions

During his youth he smoked 25 to 40 cigarettes a day until he quit because the habit was "a waste of money". He began taking amphetamines occasionally from 1937 and became addicted in late 1942. Hitler was a vegetarian. He had in his service a greenhouse built near the Berghof which ensured a constant supply of fresh fruit and vegetables throughout the war. He publicly avoided alcohol, although he occasionally drank beer and wine in private. He stopped drinking for good in 1943 due to his weight gain. Various researchers have suggested that he suffered from diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome, skin lesions, irregular heartbeat, coronary sclerosis, Parkinson's, syphilis, and tinnitus. In a report prepared for the Office of Strategic Services in 1943,

Paula Hitler, the last living member of her close family, died in 1960.