Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was a struggling young artist who became a feared dictator. He was born in 1889 from a rich family. After his father died, he quit school in the ninth grade and wanted to be an artist but had trouble finding work.

      During World War I(1914-1918), Hitler severed the whole war as a volunteer for the German army. Germany lost the war and the country suffered terribly. Many German became poor and jobless. Hitler wanted to be a hero who can lead the people back to glory again.

    After the war, Hitler joined the Nazi Party. He was an excellent public speaker and his speeches attracted thousands of people who thought Hitler could be a great leader. Then, Nazi Party grew rapidly.

      In 1933, he became Germany's chancellor and controlled the whole country. Soon, he became a dictator.

• He ordered German troops to occupy all of Czechoslovakia.

• Hitler’s army invaded Poland in 1939. World war Ⅱhad begun.

• Germany’s mighty army soon captured France and began bombing England.

• In 1941, Hitler’s armies also invaded the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), often called Russia.

• Hitler’s soldiers forced tens of thousands of Jews in Poland into small sections of the cities, known as ghettos.

• About one-third of the world’s 18 million Jews died in the Holocaust

      The United States entered World War II in December 1941. Slowly, Germany began to lose the war. Facing defeat, Hitler killed himself. His reign of terror was finally over.

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