...Austin Rudd 3rd Period Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau Austria. His father, Alois Hitler was married to his third wife, Klara Hitler. Hitler had five siblings, three of which were from his fathers' previous marriages. However, only Adolf and a younger sister, Paula survived to become adults. His mother, Klara Hitler was a kind and gentle woman. His father was a intelligent and ambitious man. Alois wanted his son to do well in life. Alois was a strict father and would brutally beat his son if he did not do what he was told. His other son, from his previous marriage was a big disappointment to him and eventually ended up in jail for theft. Hitler was a deeply religious child whom was popular among his pupils and had a bright academic future. Hitler was already admired for his leadership qualities in primary school. Secondary school proved to be much different than primary school. He was no longer at the top of his class, his only reaction was to stop trying. He also lost his popularity among his pupils. They no longer accepted him as one of their leaders. Art was one of Hitlers main interest at school. His father was furious when his son told him he wouldn't be joing the civil services, instead he was going to be an artist. Hitlers relationship with his father disappeared. At thirteen years old, his father died in 1903. At the age of fifteen after doing so poorly on his...
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...Adolf Hitler is a well known Nazi that wanted to rule the world. What he is not well known for is his past. Adolf Hitler born on April 20, 1889 was baptized as Catholic. He was born in Braunau, Austria and lived there for around eight years. His family then moved to Linz, Austria, seeking work in visual arts. After his father died in 1903, Hitler convinced his mother to let him become an artist. When his mother died in 1907, Hitler applied to an art school and failed to be accepted. Later on Hitler moved to Vienna hoping to get into an art school. After a year of moving to Vienna he became impoverished and in homeless shelters after using all of his generous inheritance left by his parents. He rejected going into the civil service recommended...
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...Hitler's childhood was quite different than most kids childhoods. Hitler was brought into this world on April 20,1889. Adolf Hitler has had quite a different but quite interesting childhood. Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in an upper Austrian border town. When Hitler was a young boy he moved to Linz, the upper Capital of Austria. Hitler and his family moved to Linz in search of careers, Adolf was especially excited about the art schools there. Hitlers father wanted him to go to civil service, but Hitler refused to go. After Adolfs father's death, Hitler convinced his mother to let him pursue his dreams of being an artist. As Hitlers mother was is ill with breast...
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...An Exposition Into Hitler’s Mindset Adolf Hitler is considered one of the world’s worst men to ever walk the planet, he was a vicious dictator who lead and entire country of people into its largest war for his own gain. One of the most interesting parts about Hitler, though, is his own personal history. I am going to outline three areas of Hitler’s life, his issues from his past, specifically his childhood, his rise to power and what lead to his hatred for the Jews, and what the widely accepted beliefs are about his psychological state. It is clear that Hitler had a horrific past, he was beaten by his father, and he was left on the streets after the art school he had wanted to go to for years denied him, it is understandable that Hitler...
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...Danny Meiselman Intro to Art 08/30/14 The Monuments Men: A Post Viewing Analysis The story of the Monuments men has been called the greatest treasure hunt in history. It is a story of a World War II platoon made up entirely of 7 art experts, who president Roosevelt assigned to be in charge of rescuing the countless priceless pieces of art stolen by the Nazis, and return them to their rightful owners or Museums. The president was convinced to do so by a man named Frank Stokes, who learned that Hitler was stealing are great works of art in order to store them in his personal museum. In the movie, Frank Stokes (George Clooney) is the leader of the troop they call the Monuments Men. He convinces President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to let him and his men try to save the thousands of years of culture that was at risk of being lost forever. His argument was that if you take away a culture’s greatest achievements, then that culture will be forgotten forever, and it will be as if it never existed. As Clooney elegantly puts it in the movie, “While we must win this war, we should also remember the high price that will be paid if the very foundation of modern society is destroyed.” It is the task of Stokes to recruit six more men, all museum curators and art historians, to accompany him in this dangerous mission across enemy lines. After he gets his team together, they are put through basic training with the rest of the infantry. When they were in training, they did not have the...
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...propaganda was, since there was no market research, very few non-Gestapo conducted opinion polls to look at, and even if there were many others, the information would not be accurate and the opinions affected. If there had been polls conducted, the results would have shown exactly what Goebbels and Hitler wanted people to think - this was achieved by making sure that only certain things were safe to think - and more importantly safe to say. Hitler was able to gain more and more followers and appeal to the people due to the severe state of the German economy and the critical state of the people that had no savings, no assets and practically no food. The Versailles treaty had simply been a recipe for destruction for the Weimar Republic and the crisis was the last straw leading to its demise. Hitler was the only one that was offering immediate solutions, not future ones such as his opponents did, and used large scale propaganda to make the people truly believe in his new ideology that was in a sense, a new way of life. He could not have chosen a more competent propaganda minister to accomplish this than Joseph Goebbels, who took full control of the media, arts and information influx in Germany. Hitler...
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...Hitler’s Influences Imagine creating a monster. Many people have wondered what must have happened to Adolf Hitler to have made him such an awful man. Hitler was most affected by his parents, Georg von Schönerer and Karl Lueger, and Benito Mussolini of Italy. First, Hitler was affected by his parents, Alois and Klara. Hitler went into “2 years of depression and lived in a homeless shelter after blowing all the money his parents had left for him,” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2017). He experienced depression when he was rejected from an art school, which happened shortly after his mother died when he was 17. After being rejected from two different art schools, Adolf spent all his money on the glamorous life that he wished he had, but instead he ended in deeper waters than intended. He had no one to guide and love him, so he went on to meet unfortunate people that only helped build the monster. In addition, Hitler was also affected by Georg von Schönerer and Karl Lueger. These men “taught him about anti-semitism, pan-Germanism, and the basic skills and dogma to overtake the Nazi party,” (Hummel 2013). This means he learned to be prejudice against Jews, to get all Europeans to speak German, and how to overthrow the Nazi party and become the overall ruler. For example, the idea of...
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...particular took advantage of for his own personal gain and ideology. Born in Australia in 1889, Aldoph Hitler came to be one of the most famed and later despised person’s in human history. Many have written about his life and what he accomplished or yet, what he did. Many have tried to explain the why in hopes that history does not repeat itself. To this day, I do not think it has to that scale however; there will always be ones to try. It is important for that reason, to always understand why he succeeded, not to enable anyone to repeat his actions but instead to ensure the human race does not put such an evil man into power ever again. His rise to power, I believe was put deliberately in motion when in 1923 Hitler attempted to seize power in Bavaria. This failed and as a result Hitler was imprisoned. While in prison Hitler took the time to write what is known as, “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle). The sale of this writing added to the funds that later he would use to manipulate himself higher and higher up the power chain. He spent only 9 months in prison but afterwards, he carefully and deliberately restructured the National Socialist Party (Nazi Party) in such a way that it had become a daunting political force run by what many now label as a Mad Man. “By June 1932, it was the largest political party in the German parliament, the Reichstag” (Historynet.com, n.d.). Hitler ran for President and lost but he was able to use his position within...
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...Adolf Hitler is most likely one of the most infamous people ever. He is talked about throughout every classroom and every family. He is known, perhaps by the majority of the world. He was the powerful leader of the Nazi’s during World War II. Time has passed since his ruling, but researchers and historians are still studying him to the last bit to find any source of information. His dictatorship caused the death of 6 million Jews before he was killed. This was two thirds the Jewish population in Europe at the time (Adolf Hitler). Growing Up As a child, Hitler was the fourth of six children. His childhood became very detached after his younger brother died. He often got into fights with his father Alois Hitler. He did not approve that Adolf wanted to go into a career in fine arts. Adolf Hitler was a very talented painter. However, he got rejected from the school of fine arts two times (Adolf Hitler). Then to make matters worse, his father passed away this led his mother to let him drop out of school. From then, he stayed in homeless shelters and sold postcards. Hitler later said these were the years that created his fascism feelings toward the Jews....
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...“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future,” once said Adolf Hitler. The youth are said to be the saviors of the world, the ones who can make a difference; controlling them would mean controlling the difference. With the same totalitarian mindset, this Nazi leader controlled the youth and made them change the future, too. Adolf Hitler was an important and influential figure in history that had a negative impact on the world because of his dictatorship after Germany’s long held independence and his leadership of a party that directly caused the deaths of millions of innocent people. This seemingly notorious personality was born on April 20, 1889 into an average family, part of the lower-middle class of society (History.com Staff, 2009)....
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...Adolf Hitler; a name of pure evil, known to be one of the world’s most feared villains of all time. A name that shows how powerful, dark, and despicable one human can be. Leaving one of the biggest marks in history, Hitler cloned an entire country and killed over six million men, women, and children in his attempt to make a “perfect world.” He deemed the Jewish people as “inferior” and did everything in his power to destroy them. But what could possibly lead a man to do such heinous crimes? What could drive a man to kill millions? What were the motivations behind Adolf Hitler? On September 12th, an all-American force stormed and captured German trenches close to Verdun. The Allies were in position to strike at the Hindenburg Line. On September 26th, armies attacked. Fighting with heavy artillery and new, modern tanks, the Allied army tore open the heart of the Hindenburg Line. British troops advanced, overwhelming the Germans as they retreated, fighting their pursuers every step of the way. After four long years of war, Germany’s proud military commanders finally accepted that the war was lost. With rebellious soldiers and civilians marching through the streets, demanding a new government, even the Kaiser agreed that it was time to negotiate for peace with the Allies without the disgrace of having to surrender. In October, he sent officials to propose a cease-fire, or armistice. But, even with his empire crumbling around him, the Kaiser still thought Germany could end...
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...Hitler was a manipulative politician, who realized to survive as a leader he had to distance himself from such events like mass murders (source #5). Scarred by many disappointments during his childhood, Adolf Hitler became the brutal dictator who imagined and carried out the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau Am Inn, Austria. Hitler was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. He became detached and introverted after the death of his youngest brother Edmund in 1900 (source #2). Hitler’s detachment from his family was caused by his father. His father was emotionally harsh and did not approve of his career interest in fine arts. After retiring, Hitler’s dad became a drunken, domineering father...
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...Adolf Hitler: The Man or the Monster PSY 300 Adolf Hitler: The Man and his Demons Introduction “One blood demands one Reich!” (Hitler, 1999). Adolf Hitler was not the man that everyone believes him to be. This paper will explain how Sigmund Freud’s theory and Carl Rogers Humanistic theory relate to Adolf Hitler and will shed light on how the two theories may have shaped him into the infamous man in history today. This paper will also hold the element of surprise and enlightenment due to information that is not regularly discussed whenever an individual hears the name Adolf Hitler. Discussion Background Information Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, 1899 to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzi. He was the second youngest child out of his five siblings. Both Alois and Klara had known poverty but had strived for a better way to live. The Hitler’s led a fairly comfortable middle- class life but family dynamics left much to be desired. As a father Alois was stern, distant, and irritable and as a husband he expected full obedience from his wife. (cite hitler book) He enjoyed spending outside over spending time with his family, leaving them to their own devices. Luckily for the children Klara did her best to combat how their father treated them and showered them with affection. Klara developed a strong bond with Adolf that was returned with fervor. In his autobiography, Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote “I had honored my father but loved my mother.” (Hitler, 1999). Hitler was the...
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...Life of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in the small Austrian town of Braunau to Alois Hitler who later became a senior customs official and his wife Klara, who was from a poor peasant family. At primary school, Hitler showed great intellectual potential and was extremely popular with fellow pupils as well as being admired for his leadership qualities. However, competition at secondary school was tougher and Hitler stopped trying as a result. He also lost his popularity among his fellow students and instead preferred to re-enact battles from the Boer war with younger children. At the age of 15, he failed his exams and was told to repeat the year but he left without a formal education instead. At the age of 18, he moved to Vienna with money inherited after his father's death in 1903, in order to pursue a career in art, as this was his best subject at school. However his applications for both the Vienna Academy of Art and the School of Architecture were rejected. It was supposedly at this time that Hitler first became interested in politics and how the masses could be made to respond to certain themes. He was particularly impressed with the anti-Semitic, nationalist Christian-Socialist party. During the First World War he volunteered to fight for the German Army and gained the rank of corporal, earning accolades as a dispatch-runner. He won several awards for bravery, including the Iron Cross First Class. In October 1918, he was blinded in a mustard gas attack...
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...Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born April 20th, 1889 in Austria to Klara and Alois Hitler Sr. Through out his life Hitler experienced both the good and the bad. His father drank heavily, which left his family at his mercy. He usually beat his wife, kids, and sometimes even his dog. Most of his tempers were taken out on Hitler’s older half-‐ brother, who got the worst of the beatings since he was older. At age fourteen he ran away from home to escape from his father. That led to Hitler getting beat more often. His mother, Klara, on the other hand was completely opposite from Hitler’s father. She was often too caring and overprotective and that bothered Hitler as he got older because he longed to be independent. At age six, Hitler was finally able to get a small sense of freedom and self-‐independence when he entered Volksshule. According to his classmates, Hitler was ...
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