Holocost Essay, Research Paper

Holocost; Adolf Hitler

At 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889, he was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria. Adolf Hitler would one day lead a movement that placed supreme importance on a person’s family tree even making it a matter of life and death.

His father, now 58, had spent most of his life working

his way up through the civil service ranks. He was used to giving orders and having them obeyed and also expected this from his children. The Hitler family lived on a small farm outside of Linz, Austria. The children had farm chores to perform along with their school work. Hitler’s mother was now preoccupied with caring for her new son, Edmund. In 1896 she gave birth to a girl, Paula. The Hitler household now consisted of Adolf, little brotherEdmund, little sister Paula, older half brother Alois Jr., older half sister Angela and two parents who were home all the time. It was a crowded, noisy little farm house thatseems to have gotten on the nerves on Hitler’s father who found retirement after 40 years of work to be difficult.

Later on in the future, Hitler develops a type of outburst. They said that he had gotten abused by his father everyday because he was a bad boy. After these couple of years he worked up a attitude that no seen before because of this abuse.

The “War to end all wars” began after the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was gunned down by a young Serbian terrorist on June 28, 1914. Events quickly escalated as Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany urged Austria to declare war on Serbia. Russia then mobilized against Austria. Germany mobilized against Russia. France and England then mobilized against Germany.

All over Europe and England young men, including Adolf Hitler, eagerly volunteered. Like most young soldiers before them, they thought it would be a short war, but hopefully long enough for them to see some action and participate in the great adventure. It would turn out to be a long war in which soldiers died by the millions. An entire generation of young men would be wiped out. The war would also bring the downfall of the old European culture of kings and noblemen and their codes of honor.

In a couple of years, after leading with a good heart, Hitler joins the Nazi party in 1921. He was considered there leader. He was very much to be something big in the future, and as everybody knows, he changed history in a way that no other person did.

After the elections of March 5, 1933, the Nazis began a systematic takeover of the state government throughout Germany, ending a centuries old tradition of local political independence. Armed SA and SS thugs barged into local government offices using the state of emergency decree as a pretext to throughout out legitimate office holders and replace them with Nazi Reich commissioners.

Political enemies were arrested by the thousands and put in hastily constructed holding pens. Old army barracks and abandoned factories were used as prisons. Once inside, prisoners were subjected to military style drills and harsh discipline. They were often beaten and sometimes even tortured to death. This was the very beginning of the Nazi concentration camp system. At this time, these early concentration camps were loosely organized under the control of the SA and the rival SS. Many were little more than barbed wire stockades know as ‘wild’ concentration camps, set up by local Gauleiters and SA leaders.

For Adolf Hitler, the goal of a legally established dictatorship was now within reach. On March 15, 1933, a cabinet meeting was held during which Hitler and G ring discussed how to obstruct what wasleft of the democratic process to get an Enabling Act passed by the Reichstag. This law would hand over the constitutional functions of the Reichstag to Hitler, including the power to make laws, control the budget and approve treaties with foreign governments.

With these concentration camps, Hitler made his name. By killing over 6 million Jew’s, people knew who Hitler was and how they should not mess with him. He got up in the morning and go target shooting with the Jewish people fro fun. He sent them to take a shower whitch was really another way to kill them. Little kids, adults, he didn’t care, as long as he had the power, people considered the Jewish people “Evil People”.

After this, the great depression begains on September 14, 1930. around thias time people had no money, they starved, and people were dying everyday.