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Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia. Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 2. April 1. 88. 9 – 3. April 1. 94. 5) was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1. Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1. As dictator, Hitler initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1. Holocaust. Hitler was born in Austria—then part of Austria- Hungary—and was raised near Linz.

He moved to Germany in 1. German Army in World War I. In 1. 91. 9, he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP), the precursor of the NSDAP, and was appointed leader of the NSDAP in 1. In 1. 92. 3, he attempted to seize power in a failed coup in Munich and was imprisoned. While in jail he dictated the first volume of his autobiography and political manifesto Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). Released in 1. 92. Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan- Germanism, anti- semitism and anti- communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda.

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He frequently denounced international capitalism and communism as being part of a Jewish conspiracy. By 1. 93. 3, the Nazi Party was the largest elected party in the German Reichstag and led to Hitler's appointment as Chancellor on 3. January 1. 93. 3. Following fresh elections won by his coalition, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which began the process of transforming the Weimar Republic into Nazi Germany, a one- party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of National Socialism. He aimed to eliminate Jews from Germany and establish a New Order to counter what he saw as the injustice of the post- World War I international order dominated by Britain and France.

His first six years in power resulted in rapid economic recovery from the Great Depression, the abrogation of restrictions imposed on Germany after World War I and the annexation of territories that were home to millions of ethnic Germans which gave him significant popular support. Hitler sought Lebensraum ("living space") for the German people in Eastern Europe and his aggressive foreign policy is considered to be the primary cause of the outbreak of World War II in Europe. He directed large- scale rearmament and on 1 September 1. Poland, resulting in British and French declarations of war on Germany.

In June 1. 94. 1, Hitler ordered an invasion of the Soviet Union. By the end of 1. 94.

German forces and the European Axis powers occupied most of Europe and North Africa. In December 1. 94.

United States, bringing them directly into the conflict. Failure to defeat the Soviets and the entry of the United States into the war forced Germany onto the defensive and it suffered a series of escalating defeats. In the final days of the war during the Battle of Berlin in 1.

Eva Braun. Less than two days later on 3. April 1. 94. 5, the two killed themselves to avoid capture by the Soviet Red Army and their corpses were burned. Under Hitler's leadership and racially motivated ideology, the Nazi regime was responsible for the genocide of at least 5. Jews and millions of other victims whom he and his followers deemed Untermenschen (sub- humans) or socially undesirable. Hitler and the Nazi regime were also responsible for the killing of an estimated 1.

In addition, 2. 9 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of military action in the European theatre of World War II. The number of civilians killed during the Second World War was unprecedented in warfare and the casualties constituted the deadliest conflict in human history. Early years. Ancestry. Hitler's father Alois Hitler Sr. Maria Anna Schicklgruber. The baptismal register did not show the name of his father, and Alois initially bore his mother's surname Schicklgruber.

In 1. 84. 2, Johann Georg Hiedler married Alois's mother Maria Anna. Alois was brought up in the family of Hiedler's brother, Johann Nepomuk Hiedler. In 1. 87. 6, Alois was legitimated and the baptismal register changed by a priest to register Johann Georg Hiedler as Alois's father (recorded as "Georg Hitler"). Alois then assumed the surname "Hitler", also spelled Hiedler, Hüttler, or Huettler. The Hitler surname is probably based on "one who lives in a hut" (German Hütte for "hut"). Nazi official Hans Frank suggested that Alois's mother had been employed as a housekeeper by a Jewish family in Graz, and that the family's 1.

Leopold Frankenberger had fathered Alois. No Frankenberger was registered in Graz during that period, and no record has been produced of Leopold Frankenberger's existence, so historians dismiss the claim that Alois's father was Jewish.[8]Childhood and education.

Adolf Hitler as an infant (c. Adolf Hitler was born on 2. April 1. 88. 9 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria- Hungary (in present- day Austria), close to the border with the German Empire. He was christened as "Adolphus Hitler".

He was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara Pölzl. Three of Hitler's siblings—Gustav, Ida, and Otto—died in infancy. Also living in the household were Alois's children from his second marriage: Alois Jr. Angela (born 1. 88. When Hitler was three, the family moved to Passau, Germany. There he acquired the distinctive lower Bavarian dialect, rather than Austrian German, which marked his speech throughout his life.

The family returned to Austria and settled in Leonding in 1. June 1. 89. 5 Alois retired to Hafeld, near Lambach, where he farmed and kept bees. Hitler attended Volksschule (a state- owned school) in nearby Fischlham. The move to Hafeld coincided with the onset of intense father- son conflicts caused by Hitler's refusal to conform to the strict discipline of his school.

Alois Hitler's farming efforts at Hafeld ended in failure, and in 1. Lambach. The eight- year- old Hitler took singing lessons, sang in the church choir, and even considered becoming a priest.

In 1. 89. 8 the family returned permanently to Leonding. Hitler was deeply affected by the death of his younger brother Edmund, who died in 1. Hitler changed from a confident, outgoing, conscientious student to a morose, detached boy who constantly fought with his father and teachers. Alois had made a successful career in the customs bureau, and wanted his son to follow in his footsteps.

Hitler later dramatised an episode from this period when his father took him to visit a customs office, depicting it as an event that gave rise to an unforgiving antagonism between father and son, who were both strong- willed. Ignoring his son's desire to attend a classical high school and become an artist, Alois sent Hitler to the Realschule in Linz in September 1. Hitler rebelled against this decision, and in Mein Kampf states that he intentionally did poorly in school, hoping that once his father saw "what little progress I was making at the technical school he would let me devote myself to my dream". Like many Austrian Germans, Hitler began to develop German nationalist ideas from a young age. He expressed loyalty only to Germany, despising the declining Habsburg Monarchy and its rule over an ethnically variegated empire. Hitler and his friends used the greeting "Heil", and sang the "Deutschlandlied" instead of the Austrian Imperial anthem. After Alois's sudden death on 3 January 1.

Hitler's performance at school deteriorated and his mother allowed him to leave. He enrolled at the Realschule in Steyr in September 1.

In 1. 90. 5, after passing a repeat of the final exam, Hitler left the school without any ambitions for further education or clear plans for a career. Early adulthood in Vienna and Munich. The house in Leonding in Austria where Hitler spent his early adolescence (photo taken in July 2. In 1. 90. 7 Hitler left Linz to live and study fine art in Vienna, financed by orphan's benefits and support from his mother. He applied for admission to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna but was rejected twice.

Theresienstadt concentration camp - Wikipedia. Coordinates: 5. 0°3. N1. 4°1. 0′1″E / 5. N 1. 4. 1. 66. 94°E / 5. Theresienstadt concentration camp, also referred to as Theresienstadt ghetto,[1][2][3] was a concentration camp established by the SS during World War II in the garrison city of Terezín (German: Theresienstadt), located in German- occupied Czechoslovakia. Tens of thousands of people died there, some killed outright and others dying from malnutrition and disease. More than 1. 50,0.

Treblinka and Auschwitzextermination camps in occupied Poland, as well as to smaller camps elsewhere.[4]History[edit]The fortress of Theresienstadt in the north- west region of Bohemia was constructed between the years 1. Austrian emperor Joseph II. It was designed as part of a projected but never fully realised fort system of the monarchy, another piece being the fort of Josefov. Theresienstadt was named for the mother of the emperor, Maria Theresa of Austria, who reigned as archduchess of Austria in her own right from 1. By the end of the 1. From 1. 91. 4 until 1. Gavrilo Princip was imprisoned here, after his conviction for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife on June 2.

World War I. Princip died in Cell Number 1 from tuberculosis on April 2. After Germany invaded and occupied Czechoslovakia, on June 1. Gestapo took control of Terezín and set up a prison in the "Small Fortress" (kleine Festung, the town citadel on the east side of the Ohře river). The first inmates arrived June 1. By the end of the war, the small fortress had processed more than 3.

The prisoners were predominantly Czech at first, and later other nationalities were imprisoned there, including citizens of the Soviet Union, Poland, Germany, and Yugoslavia. The Mindy Project Season 3 Episode 1 Online. Most were political prisoners.[5]By November 2. Nazis adapted the "Main Fortress" (große Festung, i. Theresienstadt), located on the west side of the river, as a ghetto.[5] Jewish survivors have recounted the extensive work they had to do for more than a year in the camp, to try to provide basic facilities for the tens of thousands of people who came to be housed there. From 1. 94. 2, the Nazis interned the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia, elderly Jews and persons of "special merit" in the Reich, and several thousand Jews from the Netherlands and Denmark.

Theresienstadt thereafter became known as the destination for the Altentransporte ("elderly transports") of German Jews, older than 6. Although in practice the ghetto, run by the SS, served as a transit camp for Jews en route to extermination camps, it was also presented as a "model Jewish settlement" for propaganda purposes.[6][7]On 1. November 1. 94. 3, commandant Anton Burger ordered the entire camp population, approximately 4. Bohušovicer Kessel Census"). About 3. 00 prisoners died of hypothermia as a result.[8]During a 1. Red Cross visit, and in a propaganda film, the Nazis presented Theresienstadt to outsiders as a model Jewish settlement, but it was a concentration camp.

More than 3. 3,0. Whereas some survivors claimed the prison population reached 7. September 1. 8, 1.

They were crowded into barracks designed to accommodate 7,0. In the autumn of 1. Nazis began the liquidation of the ghetto, deporting more prisoners to Auschwitz and other camps; in one month, they deported 2.

September and 2. 8 October). Small Fortress[edit]The "Small Fortress" (Malá pevnost in Czech, Kleine Festung in German) was part of the fortification on the left side of the river Ohře.

Beginning in 1. 94. Gestapo used it as a prison, the largest in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The first inmates arrived on June 1. By the end of the war, 3. Small Fortress. It was separate from and unrelated to the Jewish ghetto in the main fortress on the river's right side.

An estimated 3. 2,0. Main fortress[edit]In the spring of 1. Nazis expelled the 7,0. Jewish Czechs living in Terezín, and closed off the town. The Nazis established the ghetto and concentration camp in the main fortress on the east side of the river.

SS- Hauptsturmführer. Siegfried Seidl[1.

Seidl oversaw the labour of 3. Jewish artisans and carpenters, known as the Aufbaukommando, who converted the fortress into a concentration camp.

Although the Aufbaukommando were promised that they and their families would be spared transport, during the liquidation of the camp in September 1. Auschwitz- Birkenau[1. Sonderbehandlung, or "special treatment", i. Command and control authority[edit]The camp, Theresienstadt/Terezin, was a hybrid of ghetto and concentration camp, (KZ), with features of both. It was established by order of the SS- Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) in 1. GESTAPO Amt of the RSHA, Department IV- B- 4, (Jews), headed by Eichmann who oversaw the ghetto and its SS- Commandant; he, in turn, was in charge of the daily ghetto administration, the SS officers, about 1. Czech gendarmes, who collaborated with the Germans; these last two were in charge of security and guard duties.

An internal police force, run by Jewish inmates, answered directly to the Jewish self- administration and indirectly to the SS- commandant. Theresienstadt was also the only KZ excluded from the control of SS- Wirtschafthauptamt (main economic administration office) under Pohl and was classified as "concentration camp, class 4" (mildest). Pohl and the SS- Wirtschafthauptamt were in control of all concentration camps except Theresienstadt.

Stone marking the burial of ashes of 1. Terezín at the New Jewish Cemetery, Prague. Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst oversaw the day- to- day operations of the Kleine Festung, (Small Fortress), a prison of the Prague Gestapo which was controlled by the 'Higher SS and Police Führer', (HSSPF), Karl Frank, who reported directly to Himmler rather than the Office of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, a civilian department. SS- Hauptsturmführer Ernst Möhs (1. Eichmann's liaison- officer in Theresienstadt.

During the camp's operations, three officers served as camp commandant: Siegfried Seidl, Anton Burger, and Karl Rahm. Internal organisation[edit]As in other European ghettos, the Nazis required the Jews to select a Jewish Council, which nominally governed the ghetto. In Theresienstadt, this was known as the "Cultural Council"; later it was called the "Jewish self- government of Theresienstadt".[1. The first of the Jewish elders of Theresienstadt was Jakob Edelstein, a Polish- born Zionist and former head of the Prague Jewish community. He served until 1.

Auschwitz and shot to death after being forced to watch the executions of his wife and son.[1. The second was Paul Eppstein (de), a sociologist originally from Mannheim, Germany. Earlier, Eppstein was the speaker of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, the central organisation of Jews in Nazi Germany. He served until the autumn of 1. Small Fortress on Yom Kippur.[citation needed]Benjamin Murmelstein, a rabbi from Vienna, had been part of the Cultural Council in Vienna after the Anschluss. As in other cities, the Jews were charged by the Nazis with organising actions in the Jewish community, including selection of people for transport when the Germans decided to deport them, beginning in 1. Murmelstein was also deported to Theresienstadt.[citation needed] In late 1.

Eppstein. He and other prominent Jews of the Cultural Council were deported to Auschwitz in the liquidation of the ghetto, but he and some others survived the war. He and other Jewish elders have been extremely controversial figures, condemned for years for what was seen as their collaboration with the Nazis.[citation needed]In the 2. The Last of the Unjust, released in 2. Murmelstein that were filmed by Claude Lanzmann in 1. Shoah. The interviews were not used in the earlier film.[1. In the last days of the ghetto, Jiří Vogel of Prague served as the elder. From 1. 94. 3 to 1.

Leo Baeck was the speaker of the Council of Elders of Theresienstadt. Before being deported to the camp from Berlin, he had served as the head of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland.