Adolf Hitler: biografi og magtovertagelse

At half past six on the evening of April 20th, 1889 an innocent child was born in the small town of Braunau Am Inn Austria. The name of the child was Adolf Hitler.He was the son a Customs official Alois Hitler and his third wife Klara. He grew up with a poor record at school and left before completing his tuition with an ambition to become an artist or architect. Alois Hitler had died when Adolf was thirteen and Klara brought up Adolf and his sister Paula on her own. In 1930 a worldwide depression hit Germany and Hitler promised to rid Germany of Jews and Communists and to reunite the German speaking part of Europe. In July 1932 the Nazis received about 40% of the vote and became the strongest party in Germany. On January 30.1933 President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany. Once in this position Hitler moved quickly toward attaining a dictatorship. When von Hindenburg died in 1934 Hitler already had control of Germany. In attempt to purge Germany of her Jews a roundup of Jews with Polish citizenship was enacted in October 1938. These Polish Jews were herded like cattle and dumped at the Polish border where the Poles kept them in no-man's land. Early on the morning on April 29 1945 Hitler dictated his last will and a Political Testament to his secretary Frau Traudl Junge. Adolf Hitler showed no remorse in his Political Testament. Instead, he blamed the Jews for the war he had started. With Germany lying in ruins after six devastating years of war and with defeat imminent the Nazi dictator decided to take his own life. But before doing so he wanted to thank the one who remained completely loyal to him until the very end. Early on the morning on April 29 1945 in a civil ceremony in his bunker Hitler married his mistress of many years Eva Braun. The next day at a little after 3:30 p.m. they bit into thin glass vials of cyanide. Hitler also shot himself in the head with a 7.65 mm Walther gun.