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HITLER Countries crumbled, cities fell, and people were slaughtered. It was all part of the plan, a plan to unify Germany under the control of one man, Adolf Hitler. Over six million innocent people were massacred under his command. "In an age when an insane leader could lay waste to the planet…and yet managed to lead a major power of destruction," was it justifiable? For the first thirty years of his life, Adolf Hitler was a nobody. In the last twenty-six years of his existence he came to leave an unforgettable mark on history as the dictator of Germany and "instigator of a genocidal war which marked the steepest descent in civilized values known in modern times," finishing with his own country and most of Europe in ruins. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria. His father Alois worked as a customs officer, and his mother Klara, like most women of the time stayed at home. Hitler grew up with a poor school record and left before he was seventeen. With aspirations of becoming an artist, Hitler applied to the Vienna Academy of Fine arts but failed to make the cut. Later after the first world war Hitler became a orator in the German Worker's Party. He made such passionate speeches that afterwards his crowd would do anything that was asked of them. Later the party became the Nazi party, and Hitler had gained many more supporters. Hitler's ability to arouse in his supporters emotions of anger and hate often resulted in their committing acts of violence. Once Hitler was going to attack the national government. Berlin found out and sent its police to crush it. 21 people were killed and another hundred were wounded. While they were fighting Hitler threw himself down and ran to his car. Many of his supporters also did the same and surrendered. Some historians think Hitler had a injured young boy in his hands and was taking him to a nearby hospital. He then later went to prison, where he could have been sentenced to death, but instead he just got five years. During this time he wrote a book(mein kampf). In this book it talks about how the Aryan(Germans) superiority was being threatened particularly by the Jewish race who, which he said were lazy and had contributed little to world civilization. (Hitler ignored the fact that some of his favorite composers and musicians were Jewish). He claimed that the "Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end satanically glaring at and spying on the unconscious girl whom he plans to seduce, adulterating

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