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The Rienza
Hitler as a young BoyWhen Adolf Hitler was a teenager, he saw the opera Rienza by Richard Wagner. Rienza was about a hero who saved all his people from the cruel ruling of their enemy, who was also trying to ruin all German culture. While watching the performance of the opera, Hitler fell in love with art and music. But a different, deeper message from the opera also stuck with him, Adolf Hitler wanted to “save” German culture. “Hitler believed Germans were to be the masters of the world, and he would do whatever it -
School Life
At a young age, teachers realized that Hitler was intellectually above average, but only in subjects that interested him. When he was 16, his father passed away, leaving Hitler to drop out of school due to boredom. -
Nazi Party
In February of 1920, Hitler urged the German Workers' Party to holds its first mass meeting. He met strong opposition from leading party members who thought it was premature and feared it might be disrupted by Marxists. Hitler had no fear of disruption. In fact he welcomed it, knowing it would bring his party anti-Marxist notoriety. He even had the hall decorated in red to aggravate the Marxists -
Beginning of the Holocaust
HolocaustAnti-Semitism, the spread of hatred against people of the Jewish faith, had been going on for centuries and was in every country in Europe by the 20th century. After the awful Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Adolf had taken control of the “Nazi Party” by 1921. The main goal for this party, solve the “Jewish question”. 1933, when the Nazi Party came to power, Adolf didn’t waste his time transferring his ideas into a national policy. -
Kristallnacht
KristallnachtNovember 9, 1938, is known as Kristallnacht. On this night, the first pogroms since Hitler’s rise to power occurred. 100 Jew were killed and several sent to concentration camps. 1,574 Jewish synagogues and Jewish shops were destroyed with their windows smashed through with sledgehammers. Hence the name “Night of the Broken Glass”. -
Contration Camps
Concentration CampsThe SS (Hitler's secret army) crammed Jews into ghettos. The Warsaw ghetto, which was a plot of land divided into little sections, held over 300,000 people alone. Thousands died in these ghettos because of starvation and exhaustion. Despite the fact that the living conditions of the ghettos were miserable, Hitler thought that he was being to nice to the Jews, so he started concentration camps. Auschwitz was the worst concentration camp. The Jews were loaded into open-topped cars for the -
Mass Killings
KillingsThe mass killings of the Holocaust began in southern Germany and advance into Russia. The SS or Special Task Forces, followed behind the army cars, who were on their way into towns and villages, rounding up local Jewishs. Their mission was simple: to make Germany's newest acquisitions Judenfrei—"free of Jews. “In late December, 33,000 Jews were lined up and machine-gunned in the center of town. In a two year time, the Special Task Forces would killed over a half-million Soviet Jews. -
Marriage
Hitler married Eva Braun. Just hours after the marriage he imposed his will. The next day Eva drank poison and Hitler shot himself. Their bodies were then taken outside in the garden and burned. -
Death
Adolf Hitler died in Berlin, Germany -
Sources
-Death
"Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide: April 30, 1945." Global Events: Milestone Events Throughout History. Ed. Jennifer Stock. Vol. 4: Europe. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2014. Student Resources in Context. Web. 29 Mar. 2016.
-The Holocaust
"The Holocaust." Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: War. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Student Resources in Context. Web. 29 Mar. 2016.
-Adolf Hitler
"Adolf Hitler." UXL Biographies. Detroit: UXL, 2003. Student Resources in Context. Web. 29 Mar. 2016.
