Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th,1889 in Braunau-a-Inn,
Austria; a town near the Austria-German border. He was
the third child born to Alois and Klara. They had lost two other children in infancy. Adolf Hitler grew up with a poor record at school and left before completing his education, with an ambition to become an artist. Alois Hitler had died when Adolf was thirteen and Klara brought up Adolf and his sister Paula on her own.Klara Hitler died from cancer when Adolf was nineteen and from then onwards he had no relatives willing or able to help support him. In 1909, he moved to Vienna in the hope of somehow earning a living. Within a year he was living in homeless shelters and eating at charity soup-kitchens. He had declined to take regular employment and only took occasional jobs. He sold some of his paintings or advertising posters whenever he could to make a little money. In 1913, Adolf Hitler moved to
At nearly the same time that Hitler was taking over Germany, Franklin D. Roosevelt was pushing his New Deal plan in the United States. The United States was in the worst depression it had ever seen and Hitler knew this. The Great Depression effected more than just the U.S., it disrupted trade and the economies of nearly every country in Europe. Germany had lost WWI and was paying for it in payments to France. Hitler didn’t like this one bit. He wanted this to end or else he would do something about it, and he did. The Treaty of Versailles told Germany that they could not have more than 100,000 men in their army. Hitler determinably elevated this number to 300,000 without anybody knowing it. Forming his Nazi party, and believing that Germans were the superior race, Adolf Hitler planned and executed the torture and massacre of millions of innocent Jews. All this would continue through the war until Apri