Adolf Hitler: The antichrist history

By Isabella Ponce de León

This is the story of a man who changed world history and caused consequences that follow to this day. His name is Adolf Hitler; he was a German ruler in the interwar period and during the Second World War too.  Diffused hatred and contempt for Jews and people with ideologies different from him.  He made during his government in Germany, concentration camps and massacres of this innocent people. In this article you will find out everything you did not know about this important character.

Adolf Hitler, baptized as a Catholic, was born on April 20, 1889, in the Upper Austrian border town Braunau am Inn, located approximately 65 miles east of Munich and nearly 30 miles north of Salzburg.

His parents were Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl, a middle class couple. He was a boy with low performance at school l and postulated when he was 17 years to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, but failed the entrance exam. Then, he worked as sweeper and builder.

In 1914, the outbreak of World War, he voluntarily presented to the German army and fought until 1918, when he was injured. Mad by defeat, accused the Jews and Marxists of being traitors. And after the war he was repelled by the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, which he considered as too humiliating to Germany.

Since 1920 he devoted his life to the National Socialist Party (Nazi Party). In 1923 he attempted a coup, but failed and was imprisoned for 9 months. In prison he wrote "Mein Kampf", which explained his nationalist, racist and anti-communist ideology. His ideas spread among the Germans unemployed and poor.

Hitler ran for Chancellor in 1932, but was defeated by Hindenburg. And when he died in 1933, the power fell to Hitler, who proclaimed himself Führer. He then organized a fascist-type state (nationalist and militarized) where he became a strong, cruel and insensible dictator. In 1936, he invaded the Rhineland (the Rhine) and signed agreements with Italy and Japan. In 1938, annexed Austria to his country and stole from it Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia.

On September 1 in 1939, Germany leadered by Hitler invaded Poland and provoked World War II. It attacked Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, France and England. But failed the invasion of Russia. In 1944, there was the Allied invasion of Normandy, forcing Hitler to retreat. When the Russians took Berlin, Hitler shot himself on April 30, 1945. His body was cremated.

And this is how a man, of middle class, with few resources to develop and so much hatred accumulated because of the problems of life,  comes to a power, and leads a whole nation with an ideology that he made himself, and influences millions of persons around Europe and the world. Leaving his mark in the world until nowadays.