The Nazis And Their Rise To Power And Downfall

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the strong,
and the pure, in opposition to an establishment populated by the elderly,
the weak, and the dissolute.
Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. As a young boy,
he showed little ambition. After dropping out of high school, he moved to
Vienna to study art, but he was denied the chance to join Vienna academy
of fine arts.
When WWI broke out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmer's army as a
Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature of a
Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by that war and its
consequences. He had emerged from Austria with many prejudices, including
a powerful prejudice against Jews. Again, he was a product of his times...
for many Austrians and Germans were prejudiced against the Jews.
In Hitler's case the prejudice had become maniacal it was a
dominant force in his private and political personalities. Anti-Semitism
was not a policy for Adolf Hitler--it was religion. And in the ...

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scene. His prisoners were allowed
to leave, and they talked about organizing defenses against the Nazi coup.
Hitler was of course furious. And he was far from finished. At
about 11 o'clock on the morning of November 9--the anniversary of the
founding of the German Republic in 1919--3,000 Hitler partisans again
gathered outside the Bürgerbräukeller.
To this day, no one knows who fired the first shot. But a shot
rang out, and it was followed by fusillades from both sides. Hermann Gö
ring fell wounded in the thigh and both legs. Hitler flattened himself
against the pavement; he was unhurt. General Ludenorff continued to march
stolidly toward the police line, which ...

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