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Adolf Hitler Hitler grew up in Austria. His mother developed terminal breast cancer and was treated by a Jewish doctor who served the poor. After an operation & painful, expensive treatments with a dangerous drug, she died. Did he blame the Jewish Dr. for his mother’s death? Hitler the Artist? Hitler had long wanted to become an artist. He was denied entry to art school and some say he came to believe it was a Jewish man who denied his entry. Had Hitler been accepted to art school, would WWII and the Holocaust never have happened? Look at the signature! After being denied entry in the Austrian military, Hitler headed for Germany and was accepted in the German military. He fought with the Germans in WWI. Can you tell which one is Hitler? After losing WWI in 1918, the German government had to pay billions of dollars as punishments for attacking other countries. The German economy collapsed, prices soared, and Germans everywhere felt desperate. Adolf Hitler wept bitterly when he learned that Germany had lost the war. He promised himself that his country would never suffer such a defeat again. Hitler became deeply involved in politics. In speech after speech, he promised to make Germany great again. In 1923 Hitler formed a coup and tried to overthrow the German government by force. He was charged with treason, convicted, and sent to prison. He began writing Mein Kampf (My Struggle) while in prison. Once released from prison, Hitler decided to seize power constitutionally rather than by force of arms. Hitler spoke to scores of mass audiences, calling for the German people to resist the Jews and Communists, and to create a new empire which would rule the world for 1,000 years. By 1933, this once unknown soldier was dictator of Germany. Hitler blamed Germany’s economic problems on the Jews. He spread hateful theories about Jews, Gypsies, and other ethnic groups in Germany. He claimed they were inferior to, or not as good as, other Germans. He claimed that true Germans were a superior ethnic group and believed that this superior group deserved a larger country. Soon after, treatment of the Jews was a major theme of Hitler's plan, and the increasing scapegoating of the Jews for inflation, political instability, unemployment, and the humiliation in the war, found a willing audience. Jews were tied to "internationalism" (being loyal to more than just Germany) by Hitler. The name of the party was changed to the National Socialist German Worker's Party, and the red flag with the swastika was adopted as the party Jewish stores were destroyed. symbol. Many people did not believe Hitler’s threats about Germany deserving more land, but he was deadly serious. He ordered attacks on neighboring countries and forced them under German rule. His actions led to the start of WWII. In 1939, Great Britain, The Soviet Union, and The United States (1941) joined other nations to stop Hitler and the Nazis. By the end of the war, Europe was in ruins. People around the world learned that the Germans had forced countless Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, and others into Concentration Camps. The horrible mass murder, or genocide, of six million Jews is called, the Holocaust. Gates to Auschwitz “Work Sets One Free” Several attempts were made on Hitler's life during the war but none were successful. As the war appeared to be inevitably lost and his hand-picked lieutenants, seeing the futility, defied his orders, he killed himself on April 30, 1945. By that time, one of his chief objectives was achieved with the genocide of two-thirds of European Jews.