10 facts about Adolph Hitler
1. Adolph Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 and died at the age of 56 on 30 April1945.
2. Nobody knows the ancestry of Adolph Hitler, since his father, Aloise Hitler, was born illegitimate.
3. Hitler was interested in art at the school age and wanted to become an artist, but his application was rejected two times by Vienna Academy of Art.
4. He took part in several major battles in France and Belgium during World War I.
5. Hitler became leader of National Socialist German Workers Party in 1921. 5. He became the chancellor of Germany in 1933.
6. The political views of Hitler were based on German nationalism, anti-semitism, and anti-communism.
7. In 1923 that the National Socialist German Workers Party, led by Adolf Hitler tried to seize power,
from the ruling German Weimar Republic, in the famous Beer-Hall Putsch. However, Hitler was unsuccessful, and was sent to Landsberg Prison where he wrote “Mein Kampf”, or My Struggle, his autobiography as well as his manifesto.
He then emerged from prison and became a populist spokesman for nationalistic and poor Germans.
8. Under his rule Germany unleashed World War II by invading Poland in 1939. On June 22 1941 Hitler launched war against Soviet Union.
9. On 30 April 1945 Hitler committed suicide by shooting himself in the temple and by swallowing cyanide capsule.
10. It is claimed by some historians that Hitler was holding his mother s photograph when he died in 1945.
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