Let’s explore through the childhood of Hitler and how he became a dictator

1. T H E R I S E A N D R E I G N O F

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• Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889 in a small town called BRAUNAU Am Inn, Austria.
His dad was Customs official, Alois Hitler. And his mom, Klara Hitler, was Alois's third
wife.
• Adolf was 1 of 6 children - 3 of who died at early ages

3. • Attended a Benedictine monastery
school.
• Adolf wanted to become an artist.
• His father wanted him to become a
civil servant, but after his father died,
he dropped out of high school and
attempted to get into the Vienna
Academy of Fine Arts -He did not
succeed
• after his mother died when he was 19
he became a drifter who slept outside
and ate at soup kitchens
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4. Hitler was excited to be fighting for Germany in WW1 , He
joined a Bavarian Unit of the German army
•He won an IVORY CROSS twice for his bravery in battle, then
rose to the rank of Lance Corporal
•At the end of WWI he was hospitalised due to Blinding by A
mustard gas attack in Belgium
•He was angry when WW1 ended and blamed the Jews and
Communists
•He hated the signing of the Treaty of Versailles

5. • In 1919 Hitler Joined the German Worker’s
Party ( They related in mutual hate of the
Treaty of Versailles and A German
nationalism spirit)
•In 1920 He changed the name of the party to
Nationalist Socialist German Worker’s party
(NAZIS)
• Hitler drafted a platform of 25 points
• Revoke Versailles Treaty
• Revoke civil rights ofJews
• Confiscate any war profits

6. It all began with the Beer Hall Putsch
• October 30, 1923
• Hitler held a rally inMunich beer hall and declared
revolution Led 2000 men in take over of Bavarian
Government
• It failed and Hitler was arrested
• sentenced to 5years
• he served for 9months
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•When he left prison he was ready for
action again
• He spoke to mass audiences about
German nationalism
• Most Germans ignored his
messages until the depression hit.
• By 1932 about six million people
(30% of Germany's population)
were unemployed.
• then they began turning to Hitler
• in 1933 he was appointed
chancellor

8. • Once Hitler was in office he immediately
began strengthening his position.
• He called for new elections and burned
down the parliament building the day
before, but blamed it on the communists
• Hitler and his allies won the majority in
parliament.
• Once Hitler had parliament under his
control he passed a bill that essentially
made him a dictator.
• He banned political opponents and had
them arrested.
• In 1934 Hitler

9. He began expanding his power.
• Hitler censored the press, radio, literature,
paintings, and films and used them as
propaganda.
Books that went against the Nazi beliefs
were burned
• The church was not allowed to openly
criticize Nazis
• Children were forced to join the Hitler
Youth.
• Hitler strongly believed in
• Social Darwinism and promoted it.

10. • Although the Jewish people made
up less than 1% of Germany's
population the
• Nazis used them as scapegoats
for all of Germany's problems
since the war.
• Beginning in 1933 the Nazis
passed laws that deprived
• Jews of their rights
• This led to more violence and anti
- Semitism amongst the German
people
• On November 9. 1938 Nazi mobs
began attacking Jewish homes
and businesses known as
Kristallnacht. This began the
process of eliminating Jews from
Germany.

11. REFERENCES
B.DOVER (2007) .HITLER’S RISE TO POWER
L.MBROSINI (2011) THE NAZI SOVIET PACT
L.HERZL(2010) THE RISE OF HITLER
M.D.JANES(2009) THE RISE OF ADOLF HITLER. APWORLDHISTORY
M.D.JANES(2016) HITLER AND THE NAZI
N.SIHAG(2015) .RISE TO POWER:ADOLFT HITLER. JAIPUR ENGG.COLLAGE