Hitler The Dictator

By Mahesh Dutt Sharma

Adolf Hitler’s 12 years a ruler of Germany led to the deaths of millions in World War II and earned him the crown of one of history’s most hated villains.
With a passion for art and the penchant to be an architect, young Adolf Hitler spent many years in Vienna. After dropping out of school at the age of 16, he earned his bread by selling paintings on postcards to locals and tourists alike.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mahesh Dutt Sharma
• Release date: Apr 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301875726

Mahesh Dutt Sharma

Mahesh Sharma, a prestigious author and journalist, has written more than 1550 Hindi and English books. His book, "Mahatma Gandhi," won the M.P. Govt. Gandhi Darshan National Award in 2010. He also won Purvottar Hindi Academy, Meghalaya, Shilong Award twice, Natraj Author Award etc.. He is a freelance writer and writing is his passion.

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Hitler The Dictator

By Mahesh Sharma

Published by Mahesh Dutt Sharma

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Preface

Adolf Hitler’s 12 years a ruler of Germany led to the deaths of millions in World War II and earned him the crown of one of history’s most hated villains.

With a passion for art and the penchant to be an architect, young Adolf Hitler spent many years in Vienna. After dropping out of school at the age of 16, he earned his bread by selling paintings on postcards to locals and tourists alike. Without the support of his father in his pursuits, he ran out of money and resorted to living in a homeless shelter. Sun evidence suggests that Hitler was exposed to a great deal of anti-Semitism during his time there, as the city had a large Jewish community. It helped to foster his evolving ideology.

Hitler went to Munich, Germany in 1913 and was fascinated by the art and architecture of the place. However, while he fed his aesthetic hunger, he also joined the Bavarian Army in World War I and served in France and Belgium under Ludwig III. He received a badge for a wound he received from enemy fire.

However, in spite of being a German patriot, Hitler couldn’t hold any real public office because he was not a full-fledged citizen. He remained in the Army after World War I and moved up to the position of a police spy where he was entrusted with the job of convincing other small political groups on a scheme of propaganda and ‘national thinking ‘ that Jews in Germany had cost them the War.

Gradually, Adolf Hitler an excellent orator. After hearing him speak, people feverishly followed and believed what he said. Hitler became the leader of the newly dubbed National Socialist German Workers Party and his speeches against communism, capitalism, and groups such as the Jews won him national backing at every level.

In this autobiography Mein Kampf, which he dictated while serving a short prison term, he talked about his artist’ and also about how his political beliefs were formed. Hitler made millions from his publication and by World War II it became a compulsory reading Germany.

With the Great Recession that rocked the United States and other parts of the globe, Germany too fell into economic hardships. Hitler was able to bridge the lower and middle classes together in hopes of bringing Germany back to its previous greatness. His party assigned him to a post so that he could receive German citizenship and he ran for the chair of president. Hitler was sworn in as the Chancellor and his Nazi Party immediately gained control of many of the top governmental offices. Eventually, Hitler lifted himself to become a dictator with full-fledged support from many parties. He assumed control of the military, to watch no one else had power.

Hitler improved the infrastructure of Germany and the living standards of the different classes. He also began his campaign to take over other European lands and to exterminate anyone whom he saw as a hindrance to his progress, especially the Jews. As Hitler attacked Poland, no other country did much to stop him. France declared war only after Hitler had attacked the Netherlands, but by then it was too late and France was quickly defeated. Then, Hitler declared war on the United States by taking sides with Japan, and marked the beginning of World War II.

Between 1939 and 1945, until Hitler’s defeat, he and Heinrich Himmler had been involved in the killing of ever eleven million people, including more than six million Jews. It has been called the ‘Holocaust’. The war came to an end when Russia, Britain, and the United States captured Munich. When the liberating troops were within just a few hundred meters of Hitler’s bunker, he killed himself, along with his new wife Eva Braun and his dog named Blondi.

This worth readable book on the Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler, comprises of many known aspects and a lot of unknown secrets about this much talked about personality of the 21st century, who still instils curiosity in the people.

—Author

Table of Contents

1. Birth of Hitler

2. Loss of Father

3. Mother Expires

4. Hitler in World War-I

5. Hitler: The Leader of Nazi Party

6. German Elect Nazis

7. Success and a Suicide

8. Hitler Runs for President

9. Hitler Named Chancellor

10. Hitler Becomes Dictator

11. The Birth of Gestapo

12. Hitler Becomes Fuhrer

13. Hitler as Army Commander

14. Conquest at Munich

15. Causes for World War-II

16. Mistakes made by Hitler

17. Hitler and World War II

18. The Death of Hitler

1. Birth of Hitler

Adolf Hitler was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria at 6:30 pm in the evening of April 20, 1889.

He would one day lead a movement that placed supreme importance on a person’s family tree ever making it a matter of life and death. However, his own family tree was quite mixed up and would be a lifelong source of embarrassments and concern to him.

His father, Alois was born in 1837. He was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber and her unknown mate, which may have been someone from the neighbourhood or a poor mill-worker named Johann Georg Hiedler. It is also remotely possible that Adolf Hitler’s grandfather was Jewish.

Maria Schicklgruber had been employed as a cook in the household of a wealthy Jewish family named Frankenberger. There is some speculation that their 19 year-old son got her pregnant and regularly sent her money after the birth of Alois.

Adolf Hitler would never come to know for sure just who his grandfather was.

He did know that when his father Alois was about five year old, Maria Schicklgruber married Johann Georg Hiedler. The marriage lasted five years until she died a natural death. Then Alois went to live on a small farm with his uncle.

At the age of thirteen, young come Alois had had enough of farm life and so he set out for the city of Vienna to make a living. He worked as a shoemaker’s apprentice and later enlisted with the Austrian civil service, becoming a junior customs official. He worked hard as a civil servant and eventually became a supervisor. By 1875he had achieved the rank of Senior Assistant Inspector, a big accomplishment for the former poor farm boy with little formal education.

At that time an event occurred that went on to have big implications for the future.

Alois had always used the last name of this mother, Schicklgruber, and thus was always called Alois Schicklgruber. He made no attempt to hide the fact that he was illegitimate since it was common in rural Austria.

But after his success in the civil service, his proud uncle from the small farm convinced him to change his last name to match his own, Hiedler, and continue the family name. However, when the name was written down in the record book it was spelled as Hitler.

Thus in 1876 at the age of 39, Alois Schicklgruber became Alois Hitler. This is important because it is hard to imagine tens of thousands of Germans shouting Heil Schicklgruber! instead of Heil Hitler!

In 1885, after numerous affairs and two unsuccessful marriages, the widowed Alois Hitler, 48, married Klara Polzl, 24, the pregnant granddaughter of uncle Hiedler. Technically she was his own niece because he had changed his name and so he had to get special permission from the Catholic Church.

Alois Hitler Jr. and Angela, the children from his previous marriage, attended the wedding and lived with them afterwards. Klara Polzl eventually gave birth to two boys and a girl but none of them survived. On April 20, 1889, her fourth child, Adolf, was born. He was a bonny baby and was baptised as a Roman Catholic. Hitler’s father was 52 years