Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in Austria and showed early promise as a student but lost interest in his studies as a teenager. After failing to be accepted to art school, he moved to Germany where he served as a soldier in World War I. After the war, Hitler joined the Nazi party and rose to power, becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933. As leader, he established a racist totalitarian regime and pursued aggressive territorial expansion, which led to World War II. Hitler was responsible for the genocide of millions of Jews and other groups during the Holocaust before committing suicide in 1945 as Allied forces closed in on Berlin.

1. Adolf Hitler
By: Gabriela De Leon

2. Birth
• Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in
the small Austrian town of Braunau Am Inn
near the German border.
• His parents: Alois Hitler & Klara Hitler

3. Growing Up
• Hitler was one of the best students in
primary school and it seemed that he had a
bright future ahead of him. He was also
very popular with his school mates and was
admired for his leadership qualities. He was
also a really religious child and for a while
was considered the choice of becoming a
monk.

4. Giving up as a kid.
• As Hitler entered secondary school his reaction to not being
top of the class was to stop trying. Alois, his father, was
extremely mad as he had high hopes of Hitler of following in
his footsteps and joining the Austrian civil service. However,
Hitler was a stubborn child and attempts by his parents and
teachers to change his attitude towards his studies were
unsuccessful.
• He also lost his popularity in school. They no longer accepted
him as a leader and as Hitler liked giving orders, he started
to hang out with the smaller students. He loved games that
involved fighting and re-enacting battles from the Boer War.
His most favorite game was playing the role of commando
rescuing Boers from English concentration camps.

5. Losing His Parents
• Hitler was thirteen when his father died. His death
did not cause the family any financial problems. The
Hitler family owned their own home and they also
received a lump sum and a generous civil service
pension.
• In 1907 Klara Hitler died from cancer. Her death
affected him more deeply than the death of his own
father. He had memories of his mother, carried her
photograph wherever he went and it is claimed he
had it in his hand when he died in 1945.

6. Passion For Art!
• Hitler grew up with a poor record at school
and left, before completing his tuition, with
an ambition to become an artist.
• His application for Vienna Academy of Fine
Arts was rejected.
• He sold some of his paintings or advertising
posters whenever he could to keep on living.

7. ADOLF HITLER AND WORLD WAR I:
1913-1919
• Hitler moved to Munich, Germany in May 1913. He did so seeking to avoid arrest
for evasion of his military service obligation to Habsburg Austria and financed by
the last installment of his inheritance from his father.
• Hitler was a brave soldier. He was promoted to the rank of Corporal, was
wounded twice (in 1916 and 1918) and was awarded several medals.
• On September 16, 1919, Hitler issued his first written comment on the so called
Jewish Question. He pointed out the Jews as a race and not a religious
community, the also said the effect of a Jewish presence as a “race-tuberculosis
of the peoples," and initialized the initial goal of a German government to be
discriminatory against Jews. The “ultimate goal must definitely be the removal of
the Jews altogether.”

8. The Holocaust: It Begins
• In April 1933, Jews were banished from government jobs, a quota was
established banning Jews from university, and a boycott of Jewish shops.
• In Germany concentration camps were set up after 1933 to keep without legal
procedure Jews, Communists, Gypsies, homosexuals, and others. During World
War II extermination, or death, camps were established for the sole purpose of
killing men, women, and children.
• In the most common camps: Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor and Majdanek in
Poland, Buchenwald and Dachau in Germany , more than 6 million people, mostly
Jews and Poles, were killed in gas chambers. Millions of others were also keeped
during the war, and a large proportion died of gross
mistreatment, malnutrition, and disease.
• In 1935, the infamous Nuremberg Laws were passed. These classed Jews as
German "subjects" instead of citizens. Intermarriage was outlawed, more
professions were closed to Jews, shops displayed signs reading, "No Jews
Allowed." Harassment was common.
• In 1941 Hitler ordered the extermination of the Jewish-Bolshevist intelligentsia .
• In mid September 1941 Hitler ordered the beginning of mass deportations from
Germany to ghettos in Eastern Europe. During Autumn 1941 and the following
Winter, when preparation for the Final Solution in Europe were in full progress.

9. Continuation…
•The Holocaust represents 11 million lives that abruptly ended, the
extermination of people not for who they were but for what they were. Groups
such as handicaps, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics,
Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents and others were persecuted
by the Nazis because of their religious/political beliefs, physical defects, or
failure to fall into the Aryan ideal.

10. • In the final hours of his life, Adolf Hitler wrote a Political Testament
that he left for the German people. The document was little different
The End… HIS END!
from many speeches and articles he had written before. After causing
the destruction of huge areas of Europe, demanding the sacrifice of
millions of lives in pursuit of his political happiness and ordering the
murder of millions of others, Hitler showed no pity. Instead, he blamed
the Jews for the war he himself had started.
• With Germany lying in ruins after six devastating years of war, and
with defeat, the Nazi dictator decided to take his own life. But before
doing so, he wanted to thank the one who'd remained completely loyal
to him until the very end. Early on the morning on April 29, 1945, in a
civil ceremony in his bunker, Hitler married his mistress of many years,
Eva Braun.
• The next day a little after 3:30 p.m., they bit into thin glass vials of
cyanide. As he did so, Hitler also shot himself in the head with a 7.65
mm Walther pistol.