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Originally Posted by DamnthatDavid
Not inspiring me with any sense of intelligence in ya posts matey. You either know what the finer points are, and enlighten me, or you just a dumbass who has nothing.
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it's History 101, ass, very basic shit. I'm not here to "inspire" you either, I'm here to look down on you.
By 1906, after a rough and troubling childhood, Hitler had become a prolific reader, writer, speaker, and aspiring artist. He had researched German history and Nordic mythology and, after studying Bismarck, developed a great distaste for the house of Habsburg and the multi-cultured nature of the Austrian Empire.
After failing his art examination and being rejected by the academy, Hitler was left with little choice but to gather up what was left of his inheritance and abandon (for now) his dreams of being an artist. His mother, who had been suffering from breast cancer, took a turn for the worse and Hitler came home to care for her. Her condition slowly deteriorated as the cancer ravaged her body and on December 21st, 1907 she died. Now without family, Hitler once again focused on a career as an artist. In Vienna, he took an apartment with a childhood friend and set about many projects with great enthusiasm, but did not finish any of them. When the time came for the entrance examination to the art academy, his work was deemed so terrible that he wasn't even allowed to take the lowest level exams. In contrast to Adolf, his friend had done quite well and had been accepted to the Vienna Conservatory. Hitler moved out in November 1908 while his friend was undergoing military training and made no attempt to contact him again.
A year later, Hilter was destitute. He was forced to eat at soup kitchens and wore nothing but tattered rags. Occasionally selling paintings with the help of Jewish shop owner Josef Neumann, Hitler began reading the works of Nietzsche, Hegel, and other philosophers you wouldn't have heard of. From their philosophies, he pieced together his own assortment of nationalistic, anti-Semitic, and racist ideals that would later be put to paper in
Mein Kampf. His poverty also influenced him greatly, perhaps it could even be said that it was the greatest contributing factor to his utter lack of empathy. By the age of 21, Hitler had become keenly interested in the political life of Vienna and followed with great interest the Pan German Nationalists and the Social Christian Party, both increasing his feelings of German nationalism. At this time the mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger, caugh Hitler's eye. Lueger was an accomplished speaker, a noted anti-Semite, and had a talent for manipulating people. From his speeches and the general atmosphere of Vienna, Hitler's hatred of Jews began.
In 1913, Hitler moved to Munich, Germany to avoid Austria's policy of mandatory military service. In 1914, Austrian officials tracked him down, but Hitler was not punished. It was then, however, that Adolf became convinced that war was coming and he wanted to fight for the Fatherland. On August 1st, 1914 Hitler joined a crowd in the city plaza celebrating the onset of World War I. Seeing himself as a true son of Germany, Hitler joined the service two days later.
During the war, Hitler had great luck wherever he went and he attributed this to his Fatherland having greater designs for him. At Ypres, Hilter's regiment was decimated by the British, but Adolf escaped without a scratch. After serving as a dispatch runner and being wounded in the leg, Hitler was assigned to light duty in Munich and was able to tour Berlin. He was appaled by the anti-war sentiment of the people of Berlin and blamed the Jews for undermining German nationalism and the war effort. Blinded by this consuming hatred, Hilter went back to the front and was hospitalized after a gas attack in 1918. A month later, in November, a priest came and told him of the fall of the house of Hollenzollern and the end of the Second Reich. While terrible at the time, this would later give Hitler the opportunity to seize power for himself.
With the end of empire and the rise of the republic, the German people saw themselves as a repressed and enslaved nation. Versailles had been a humiliation for the once proud Germany and most people, including Hitler, desired to cast aside the treaty and make war once again. Still in the army, Hitler impressed many of his superiors with his ability to weed out Marxists in the ranks. He was sent to a political indoctrination course at Munich University where he impressed both his professors and returning POWs with his anti-democractic and anti-Semitic speeches. After his assignment there, he was sent to investigate the German Workers' Party. After hearing the Marxists ramblings of many of the party members, Hitler was just about to leave and file a report when he heard a speech supporting an the breakaway of Bavarian state and the amalgamation of Austria, Bavaria, Bohemia, and Moravia into a new South German country. Enraged, Hitler launched into a diatribe against the man and thus attracted the attention of the party leader. He was invited to join and did so, but was unimpressed with the condition the party was in. With his fiery speeches and recruitment tactics, Hitler began drawing more and more like-minded people into the group. At the first mass meeting of the GWP, Hitler spoke before a crowd of 2,000. His ideas, outlined in the 25 Points, included Lebensraum for the people, the expulsion of the Jews, and a strong central goverment in place of the weak Weimar Republic. Met with support for his ideas, Hitler adopted the swastika as the party symbol and changed the name to the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazi for short. By 1920, the Nazi Party had about 3,000 supporters. Later faced with a coup by some of his own backers, Hitler resigned from the Party in 1921. Realizing that without the young Austrian, the Nazi Party had no legs, Hitler was allowed to return as the chairman of the party and was given dictatorial powers. In short, he was the fuhrer of the Nazi Party.
Before the war, the German mark had been at four to a U.S. dollar. After the war, it slipped lower and lower until, eventually, one dollar would be worth four billion marks. With the French army constantly encroaching on German territory and nationwide starvation, riots broke out and the people denounced the govermnet. Hitler saw this as an opportunity and carried out his infamous Beer Hall Putsch. The Nazis even attempted a takeover of Munich, but were defeated and Hitler was put on trial for treason.
I grow weary of this...basically, the German government began electing Nazis to positions of power, Hitler ran for President, the Weimar Republic collapses, Hitler is named Chancellor, the Reichstag burns, and Hitler eventually becomes dictator.
oh, and you're an ass.
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