Adolf Hitler timeline (Leaders)


Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889, Braunau In, Austria—he died in April 30, 1945, Berlin, Germany Hitler leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party (from 1920/21) and chancellor of Germany (1933–45).
Early life
After his father's retirement from the state customs service, Adolf Hitler spent most of his childhood in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria. It remained his favorite city throughout his life. Alois Hitler died in 1903. Although Hitler feared and disliked his father, he was a splendid son to his mother. He visited Vienna, then returned to Linz, where he dreamed of becoming an artist. Later, he used the small allowance and he continued to draw to stay in Vienna. He wished to study art, for which he had some difficulties, but he twice failed to secure entry to the Academy of Fine Arts. For some years he lived a lonely and isolated life, earning a precarious livelihood by painting postcards and advertiseme nts and drifting from one municipal hostel to another.
In 1913 Hitler moved to Munich. When World War I broke out he immediately volunteered for the German army and joined the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment. He served throughout the war, was wounded in October 1916. He was hospitalized when the conflict ended. During the war, he was always in the front line as a headquarters runner; his bravery in action was rewarded with the Iron Cross, Second Class, in December 1914, and the Iron Cross, First Class (a rare decoration for a corporal), in August 1918.
Rise to power
Discharged from the hospital amid the social chaos that followed Germany's defeat, Hitler took up political work in Munich in May–June 1919. As an army political agent, he joined the small German Workers' Party in Munich in September 1919. In 1920 he was put in charge of the party and left the army to make himself to improving his position within the party, which in that year was renamed the National-socialist Deutsche labour party (Nazi).Death
Hitler was dead in when he suicided himself,his children and wife with a gun hiding extremely well because their bodies were not found today.
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By:Luca Marini