The man behind it all: Adolf Hitler.

Name: Adolf Hitler
Birthday: April 20, 1889

Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria by the parents of  Alois Schickelgruber Hitler and Klara Poelzl. As a youth, Adolf resented the strictness of his father, which drew him closer to his hardworking mother. When she died of cancer early in Adolf's life, it really effected him as a person. At the age of 16, Adolf had dreams of becoming a painter. In 1907, he left for Vienna in the hopes of enrolling in the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't accepted, so he spent five years in a state of depression. This is said to have helped trigger his hatred for Jews, Marxists, and liberalism.

In 1913, Hitler joined the army - the Sixteenth Bavarian Infantry Regiment, where he performed as a dispatch runner. After witnessing the humiliation of the war first hand, he decided that it was up to him to save Germany from their embarassment. In 1919 he joined a small party called the Germans' Worker Party and changed the name to National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) and by 1921, he was the chairman. It was during this time that Hitler created the swastika and his greeting, "heil." In 1923, Hitler was convinced that the Weimar Republic was too weak to continue, and that with the help of General Ludendorff and other nationalitst groups, they could physically overthrow the government. They were wrong, and Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison. He was released after only 9 months, but during his time in jail, he wrote "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle) to his loyal followers. In this book, Hitler talked about primitive Social Darwinism, racial myth, anti-Semitism and lebensraum fantasy. This book became the so-called bible for the Nazi Party.

In January 1925, the ban that was placed on the Nazi party was removed, and Hitler began his rise to taking over Germany. In 1933, he became the chancellor and soon after, the dictator of Germany.

Once Hitler became the dictator of Germany, he could convince everyone to think the way he did. His main goal - eliminate everyone who wasn't of the Aryan race. With that being said, the genocide was soon to begin.

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