1. Bell Ringer
What associations (words or thoughts) do you make with Adolf Hitler’s name or image?

2. Hitler’s Rise to Power
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3. Hitler’s Youth Born in Austria in 1889 Father -- Alois Shicklgruber
Alois was domineering, authoritarian; had Adolf in his 50s, retired shortly after
Arguments over Adolf’s career
Adolf wanted to be an artist, Dad wanted him to be a civil servant (arguments usually centered around school choice)
Young Adolf’s interests
German military history, American West

4. Teenage Years 1903 father dies Adolf the student Drops out
Became head of the family at age 14
Adolf the student
Lazy, uncooperative, daydreamer
Drops out
His talent for drawing (ability to draw details of architecture from memory) led to his Art Test
Art School test
Evaluated as ordinary, lacking appreciation of the human form; Why don’t you go to architectural school? (Not his dream AND needed a high school diploma

6. The Nadir of Young Adolf’s Life
Nadir = Lowest Point
1907 mother’s death
Increasingly unstable, gravely serious, fits of uncontrollable rage
Adolf’s personality shift
Plans for the redesign of Vienna, started writing an opera; all projects abandoned
Mr. Big Project
lived in poor housing, sold paintings to Jewish shop owners
1909 Portrait of the Young Man As An Artist

7. Hitler’s Studies Interested in politics Studies political movements
Pan-German nationalism, anti-Semitism
Studies political movements
Karl Lueger -- mayor of Vienna; demagogic (characteristic) orator and anti-Semite
Draft dodger
Fled Vienna because of compulsory military service
Enlistee
Enlisted in Germany army at dawn of war in 1914

8. World War I
Blamed Jews for anti-war sentiment
Temporarily blinded by chlorine gas
Heard of surrender lying in hospital bed
“There followed terrible days and even worse nights -- I knew that all was lost… These nights hatred grew in me, hatred for those responsible for this deed.” -- Adolf Hitler

10. Hitler’s Rise to Power
Joined National Socialist Worker’s Party in 1919
1923 tried to overthrow Weimar Republic in the Beer Hall Putsch
Jailed for treason; wrote Mein Kampf
Outlined need for lebensraum and the superiority of the Aryan race
extreme German nationalism, anti-Semitism, anti-communism, right of superior nations to expand.

12. Hitler’s Rise Con’t The Depression created need for a strong leader
By 1934 was both Chancellor and Fuhrer
Banned political parties
Authority enforced by the SS, the Brownshirts, and the Gestapo
Controlled all media and burned books

15. Hitler’s Rise to Power (cont)
Children forced to join the Hitler Youth or the League of German Girls
Anti-Semitism was key belief of Nazis
Passed laws depriving Jews of rights
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) on Nov. 9, 1938