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Social Studies WorkshopTeacher: Mauricio Torres

Lil´Adi

• Parents:– Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl

• Date and place of birth:– 20 April 1889 at Braunau am Inn,

Austria-Hungary• He became fixated on warfare

after he found a picture book of the Franco-Prussian war.

• His father was abusive, and he would hold on to his mother.

Going to School

• He attended a technical school, against his will. He wanted to be an artist.– He faired poorly at school,

intentionally so that his father would take him elsewhere.

• He started to develop a strong sense of German nationalism.

• After his father died he left school permanently.

Hitler the Bohemian

• He lived a bohemian life in Vienna, financed by orphan's benefits and support from his mother. – He worked as a casual labourer

and eventually as a painter, selling watercolours.

• He was rejected by the art academy (twice).

• His mother died and he was left without money and homeless.

Becoming Hitler

• In Vienna he develops a strong feeling of antisemitism.– This means, a deep hatred of jews

• He moved to Munich, in order to serve in the German army during WWI.

• After the defeat his sense of nationalism and hatred for jews and other races becomes intensified.

First encounter with Politics• He gets involved in politics and meets

influential people in Munich.– He joins the Nationalsozialistische

Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP).– Hitler designed the party's banner of a

swastika in a white circle on a red background.

• Hitler quickly rises to power within the party.– He is sorrounded by unhappy Germans

and gets really close to former men from the army (Göering, Hess, Rohm

Beer Hall Putsch and beyond• Hitler leads a coup against

the government, backed by general Ludendorff. – The coup failed, and he was

sent to jail.– Here he wrote “Mein Kampf”,

an autobiography and exposition of his ideology.

• He leaves prison, rebuilds the NSDAP, and by the use of massive propaganda he rises to power.