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Matthew A Pham World Civilizations II 03/11/11 Hitler’s Road to Power Adolf Hitler was an Austrian born Politician that with humble beginnings had gain great power and led Germany to war. As an Austrian citizen he experienced some of the same struggles and ideas of the German people post WWI which ultimately led the way for Hitler to step up and lead the German people under the Third Reich. Hitler’s beginnings start with his birth in 1889 in Austria. As a boy he had a nurturing mother and strict father. He dropped out of school at 16 and with a love of art applied for Vienna Art School. He was denied and being unable to face his family with the news he ended up painting post cards for money and living in a homeless shelter. In Vienna he encounters many ideas that would shape his desires and actions he took that gained him power. He encountered pan-Germanism, ultranationalism, and Anti-Semitism. These were respectfully the idea of a united German speaking people, right wing support of nationalism, and the prejudice against Jews. These ideas help to add and reinforce Hitler’s belief in Social Darwinism. He believed in relation to social Darwinism that the people of the Aryan race were in a war for survival and that the extermination of other races was needed to maintain the growth of one’s race. These ideas can be seen as the seeds that shaped Hitler’s desires and actions to unite German people and justification to hate and kill other ethnicities and minorities. These ideas are the basis of Nazi ideology. With this idea’s flowing, Hitler illegally leaves Austria and enlists in the German army in 1913. He served as a message runner and suffered an injury in which he was temporarily blinded for which he received the Iron Cross for his injury. After the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler and the German people had common sentiments about how Germany was being treated. People were angry about reparations and the hostility towards Germany by WWI victors. Germany had no representation at the Treaty of Versailles, was stripped of much of its military strength

and land, and owed billions of dollars for the war. The debt coupled with the depression led to 42% drop in industry, hyperinflation, and no value in farming. Economic times were very tough meaning people were very unhappy. A democratic government in the form of The Weirmar Republic was forced onto the German people. The government was doomed to fail impart because the people didn’t want it. The country was divided by left and right wing politicians fighting for communism verses a strong hierarchal government. The anger and despair brought about by how Germany was being treated, what was lost, and the struggles in such a hard economic condition led the people susceptible to a strong figure that promised change and hope. After Hitler returned from the war he began his political involvement when he joined the National Socialist German Workers Party in 1919 which didn’t stay socialist for long. In 1923 Hitler and the now Nazi party attempted to over throw the government of Bavaria but failed and were sentenced to five years in prison. Since much of the Germany people didn’t want democracy, Hitler was seen as a hero against democracy and was treated well in prison. These events were the start of his connection and power with the German people. In Prison, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf “My Struggle” in 1925. This was Hitler’s blueprint to what his actions and justifications were going to be in the future. His book planned for a large unified German state, and discussed how prejudice against Jews, homosexuals, and other minorities was justified. His book helped to spread Nazi ideology and feed the fire for hope with the German people. Hitler gained much power through his ideology and his promises to lead the people as a strong unified German state. He uplifted the people with his promises and the way he promoted his ideas. One method he used to motivate and raise the people’s spirits was to use music such as the Wagner’s. The music inspired emotions along with Hitler’s presented ideas. After one year, Hitler was released from prison and joined back up with the Nazis which had grown rapidly. The support for Hitler’s can be seen in number of votes Hitler received in his run for office against WWI General Hindenburg. Hitler received 13 million votes compared to the winning 19million votes. Hitler’s power had grown much since his initial joining of the young Nazi party. The election results show the large influence that Hitler can make.

After losing the election Hindenburg desired a coalition government so he integrated the Nazis into the government and made Hitler the Chancellor in 1933. Hitler was now second in command in Germany furthering his raise in power and creation of the Third Reich. As chancellor Hitler suspended civil rights, got rid of trade unions, managed the press, excluded Jews from public office, and beat up opposition parties. In 1933, Hitler gains even more power when he attended the World disbarment conference with the support of the German people. He asked that arms be brought down to Germany’s level or that Germany be allowed to build up its arms. He pulled Germany out of the conference and League of Nations. He was seen as a hero in Germany which furthered his influence over the people. Hitler further influences politics and shapes Germany by getting rid of opposition to create a one party state. In 1932, The Night of Long Knives occurred. This was a purge of Nazi opposition as well as liabilities. Hitler ordered the brown shirts to arrest and kill political leaders of other parties such as Ernst Rohm. He then ordered the SS to kill the Brownshirts for liability purposes. The purge consolidated the Nazi’s control. In 1934, Hindenburg dies leaving Hitler to be first in command. As the supreme leader under the title Fuhrer he eliminated the president’s office and required that the military to swear allegiance to Hitler. Now that Hitler has total power of Germany, Hitler moves to his next task, the retaking of former German lands to reunite the German people. In 1938, Hitler peacefully marches into Austria and annexes the Sudetenland. The annexation was peaceful because Austrians saw Hitler as a native Austrian son that was standing up for and uniting the German people. With the world in fears of another world war the British send Chamberlain to try and overt war with Germany. This is known as the Munich Crisis in which a crucial decision was made. Chamberlain signed off stipulating that Germany may have Sudetenland but nothing more by force. The English thought that the appeasement of Hitler would give peace but it just gave him even more power. Having not being reprimanded but appeased led him to annex the rest of Czechoslovakia and turn his sights on Poland. Poland was under protective treaty of English and French so Hitler went to Russia and made an agreement in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939. This pack stipulated non-aggression between Russian and

Germany, a trade of goods between the two countries, and division of Poland. Another treaty that made Germany and Hitler even more powerful is the Pact of Steel in 1939. This pact formed an alliance between Italy and Germany and made Germany even more dangerous. Hitler furthered the growth and power of Germany by invading Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France. All invasions were completely successful except France which they were forced to sign and armistice that divided France. War went on with many countries being taken by the axis powers. Hitler’s powers over his people and over other nations steadily climbed until Operation Babarossa in June 1941 where the German Army is surrounded. This is a marking point where Hitler’s rise in power was starting to level off. Hitler had ordered an attack on the Soviet Union which was successful at destroying most of the military that was encountered except at Stalingrad. The German army fought into Stalingrad which fell to ashes leaving the German army surrounded by the Soviet Army. The Germans which used Blitzkrieg had a hard time keeping their machinery supplied because the machines would travel faster than the supply lines so when the German army was encircled they ran out of supplies and had a hard time receiving supplies by air. With a large amount of the German army being encircled and fighting without many supplies, they took a beating. The German air force the Luftwaffe also took a beating trying to fight through Soviet anti-air guns to deliver supplies to the German army. Though heavy casualties were taken by both the Soviet Union and Germany, the failure at Stalingrad marked a decrease in German Strength. It was during Operation Barbarossa that the Einsatzgruppen helped to fulfill another part of Hitler’s plan- the cleansing of other races. The Einsatzgruppen committed many atrocities from killing Jews, gypsies, and homosexuals to raping and torturing victims. Hitler was a man who lived through the struggles of post WWI Germany and shared common sentiments with the German people. He gained power and respect from the German people by using his ideology on nationalism and races to uplift the spirits of the German People suffering from the reparations and hostilities from the First World War. Under the Third Reich he successfully took control of many countries and killed many people deemed inferior to the Aryan race.

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