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__http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/higher/history/nationalism/hitler2_rev.shtml For several years the Nazis were only a small, marginal party, alongside hundreds of others. Over time, however, they became a force to be reckoned with.
 * NAZI POPULARITY**
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• They came to be seen as the only credible right-wing alternative to the left-wing parties. • Their belief in the supremacy of the German race appealed to nationalists. • The paramilitary groups reminded people of the comradeship they shared as soldiers. • Hitler was charismatic and he won people over by strength of personality. • Hitler's hatred of Jews struck a chord with many people - they were a convenient. scapegoat, to be blamed for all Germany's problems. • Throughout the 1920's good organisation, effective propaganda and rallies spread the popularity of the party all over Germany.

Making the most of opportunities Despite the failure of the Munich Putsch in 1923, when Hitler tried to seize power by violent revolution, he was able to use his trial for treason to make himself a national figure. He used the publicity to get his ideas published in Mein Kampf, his autobiography.

So Hitler was a pretty clever guy, the Nazi Party was a small party when he joined but he changed all that as he was good at persuading and convincing the public into agreeing to his ideas. He was lucky because he gave good ideas the the Arians when they were suffering in ' The Great Depression', so when more people were getting unemployed he got more and more votes which eventually got his part the most votes. As you can see good organisation, propaganda and rallies were very effective motives into getting people to believe in his ideas. Hitler opposed the 'Treaty of Versailles' for taking so much money as well as the land so did the people that is why they hated the French because it was their ideas. They also hated communism as well as the jews, he strongly belieed that some races were more superior than others. Hitler had so many great ideas and forceful desires and it was put into a book called Mein Kampf. I think this source is important because it tells us how he started rising to power with his ideas that convinced the Germans that they were the most powerful of the people. Gabe (For more info go to http://www.slideshare.net/lcordelia/reasons-for-hitlers-rise-to-power-in-1933/)
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he seed of peace, not dragon's teeth' cartoon of Hitler, from the magazine Kladderadatsch, 22 March 1936 go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nazi_propaganda_gallery_01.shtml to see more propaganda posters


 * HItler's Early Life**

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, near the Austro-German border. Adolf's father, Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border. His mother, Klara, had previously given birth to two other children by Alois, Gustav and Ida, but they both died in infancy. Adolf attended school from the age of six, and the family lived in various villages around the town of Linz, east of Braunau. By that time, Adolf had a younger brother, Edmund, but he lived only until the age of six. In 1896, Klara gave birth to Adolf's sister, Paula, who would outlive him.
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Hitler was a poor student and left school before graduation. He had an ambition to become an artist, and had gained an interest in politics and history. He applied twice unsuccessfully for admission to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1909, after both parents had died, he moved to Vienna in the hope of earning a living. Living in homeless shelters and eating at charity soup kitchens, he declined to find regular employment, but took occasional menial jobs, and sold his paintings and advertising posters whenever he could to provide sustenance. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1695.html


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Hitler had a pretty bad early life as his parents died at a very young age and it must have been hard for him because he barely had any money, he was a poor student with bad behavior and always got angry when being told off. He failed in Vienna Academy of Fine Arts twice because he was bad at drawing people but he was good at drawing buildings even though he really wanted to be an artist. He moved to Vienna searching for a job to earn a living which would be both pretty hard at that age and the time. He lived as a tramp eating and drinking cheap charity soup kitchens and took any jobs were available for him, he started hating foreigners and the rich jews because he believed that they were changing their lifestyle, i think that if he passed Vienna Art Academy he wouldn't have been the bad person he was in the future and Wold War II wouldn't have started along with the milions suffering the torture. I think that this source is worth knowing because it tells us about how hard his life was as a child, living without the care of anyone as a boy should have been unbearably painful.


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Roots of Hitler's and the Nazis' Hatred of Jews The Jews in Nazi Germany suffered appallingly after January 1933.Some rich Jews could afford to leave Nazi Germany (or were forced to) but many could not. Thugs in the SA and SS were given a free hand in their treatment of the Jews. The Jews were frequently referred to in "Mein Kampf" and Hitler had made plain his hated for them. References to the "filthy Jew" litter the book. In one section, Hitler wrote about how the Jews planned to "contaminate" the blood of pure Germans:- "The Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end.......spying on the unsuspicious German girl he plans to seduce..........He wants to contaminate her blood and remove her from the bosom of her own people. The Jew hates the white race and wants to lower its cultural level so that the Jews might dominate." "Was there any form of filth or crime...without at least one Jew involved in it. If you cut even cautiously into such a sore, you find like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light - a Jew."

Early on in his political career, Hitler continued with his anti-Semitism: "His is no master people; he is an exploiter: the Jews are a people of robbers. He has never founded any civilisation, though he has destroyed civilisations by the hundred...everything he has stolen. Foreign people, foreign workmen build him his temples, it is foreigners who create and work for him, it is foreigners who shed their blood for him." Speech given in Munich in July 1922. Once in power, Hitler used his position to launch a campaign against the Jews that culminated in the Holocaust.

Hitler blamed the Jews for all the misfortunes that had befallen Germany the loss of the First World War was the result of a Jewish conspiracy the Treaty of Versailles was also a Jewish conspiracy designed to bring Germany to her knees the hyperinflation of 1923 was the result of an international Jewish attempt to destroy Germany http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Jews_Nazi_Germany.htm


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The source is an important source because it tells us that Hitler hated the jews and blaming them for the loss of so many things in Germany, but really why did Hitler hate the jews? There are alot of theories about why he hated the jews. One rumour is that when Hitler was a young scalywag he slept with a Jewish prostitute and contracted syphillis another one where a Jewish doctor needed to examine Hitler's mother's breast because she had breast cancer,Hitler resented the man touching his mother intimately. Alternately, he hated the doctor for not being able to save her. For more theories go to http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_Hitler_and_the_Nazis_hate_Jews_and_try_to_kill_them But enough of that... As you see Hitler blamed alot on the jews and he tried to convince people to think the same, see the same and feel the same about the jews, this was sucessful and lots of people started hating the jews, some of his speeches were probably totally made up to degrade the jews. At this time i think the jews were feeling very bad and in danger because alot of Germans hated them because of Hitler's convincing, i think Hitler graded people from top to bottom. According to Hitler and the convinced Germans the Aryans who were pure Germans were on the top of the list and of course the Jews (a.k.a Dogs according to the Germans) were on the bottom of the list, that is why Hitler hated them the most. I think that this is a very important source because the Jews also took place in WWII along with everybody who hated Hitler.

__Hitler's Early Politics__

Early politics - 1918-1933 http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1695.html Between December 1918 and March 1919 Hitler, still a corporal in the German army, was posted to a German prisoner-of-war camp at Traunstein before returning to Munich. Shortly after his return he witnessed a governmental takeover bid by local Communists, who seized power before being ousted by the army. After Hitler gave evidence about the takeover attempt in an investigation, he was asked to become part of a local army organization that was responsible for persuading returning soldiers not to turn to Communism or Pacifism. During his training for that task, and his subsequent military duties, he was able to hone his oratory skills. The Nazi Party
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As part of his duties, Hitler also was asked to spy on certain local political groups, and during a meeting of the German Workers' Party, became so incensed by one of the speeches that he uncorked a fierce harangue at the speaker. The party's founder, Anion Drexler, was so impressed by Hitler's tirade that he asked him to join their organization. Hitler, after some thought, finally agreed in September 1919. He was eventually given responsibility for publicity and propaganda. His oratory succeeded in attracting larger and larger audiences and party donations. The party's name was changed to the National Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI) on April 1, 1920.

Hitler was discharged from the German army in February 1920. He continued to expand his influence in the party, and formed a private group of thugs that he used to quash disorder at party meetings, and later to break up rival parties' meetings. That group subsequently became the Sturmabteilung (SA) - Hitler's brown-shirted storm troopers. He also became the regular main speaker at party events and attracted large crowds at each meeting. Important Nazi Party members and Third Reich architechs, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess joined the party at this time. During the summer of 1920, Hitler chose the swastika, an ancient symbol historically used by many cultures, to be the Nazi Party emblem.

By 1921 he had secured virtually total control of the Nazi Party. During that time Hitler also plotted to overthrow the German Weimar Republic by force. On November 8, 1923, he led an attempt to take over the local Bavarian government in Munich, in an action that became known as the "Beer Hall Putsch." The coup was ended after a brief gunfight with Munich police. Himmler, Goering and Hess also participated in the putsch. Hitler was arrested and charged with treason. He successfully used the subsequent trial to gain publicity for himself and his ideas. Following his trial, he was sentenced to five years in Landsberg prison, but served only six months. During his time in prison he Hitler began to dictate his thoughts and philosophy to co-conspirator and cellmate Rudolf Hess, which became the book Mein Kampf (My Struggle). There he put in the 'What should' Germany be and 'How' it would regain everything it lost. This source is important because it tells us how and what he did before and when he was in the Nazi party, basically i think it was the power of the gob which got him to a good position, he was an anti-communist who believed other people were greater than some others. It gives us alot of detail about what he did in the German Workers Party later renamed the Nazi Party, he slowly got higher and higher until he ruled the Nazi Party. Most of the soldiers said he did a good job being a trench messenger in WWI and some believed he should have had a better position, being a trench messenger is by no means easy so i think that Hitler was a courageous man. The reason why Hitler was getting more audience was because of his oratory skills, i think he would be a great leader if he had not used his skills for the worse, he could have made the world a better place but he chose not to. He died a bad death with many people hating him and some people still liking him, Hitler in my opinion could have been a good man and tried to make a better world but he prevailed world peace, he lived a great man for the Arians but the outcome was that he wasn't all that good. When Hitler went to prison he started to write his ideas about how the Arian race was going to live in harmony, but did he ever think about what would happen if the did? No. Hitler treated mostly everyone else in a bad way like garbage, but if you really think about why he did you might feel sorry for the man, sometimes I feel sorry for Hitler, i think he started hating other people when he was a child, his parents died when he was young and he had no one to rely on. This may have resulted to his bad ways but in my own mind i think Hitler tould have been a good man if his childhood had been going on well.Having no one to be with is in my opinion the worst possible torture in the world, do you think the same?
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