World War II and Adolf Hitler

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WORLD WAR II AND ADOLF HITLER

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BACHELOR OF ARTS IN HISTORY

HIST 348 : WORLD WAR II

GARY LOTEN-BECKFORD

JULY 13 , 2010

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World War II and Adolf Hitler

Introduction

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20 , 1889 in the small town of Braunau Am Inn in Austria . His parents were Customs official , Klara and Alois Hitler . He became a German politician

and went on to be the head of the National Socialist German Workers Party or better known as the Nazi Party . From 1933 to 1945 he held the position as Chancellor of Germany and ruled the country in a dictatorship manner

He was a known veteran of the First World War and he joined the pioneer of the Nazi Party (DAP ) in 1919 and went on to become leader of the NSDAP by the year 1921 . In 1923 , Hitler led a failed coup in Munich known as the Beer Hall Putsch . He was imprisoned because of such attempt and it was that time that he wrote his book . He acquired support from his writing as he promoted anti-Semitism , German nationalism anti-communism , and anti-capitalism with compelling rhetoric and propaganda . In 1933 , he became chancellor and transformed Germany into a single-party dictatorship founded on the despotic as well as tyrannical principles of National Socialism . Hitler 's actions and policies led to the declaration of France and United...