The Rise of Hitler

On Easter Sunday April 20, 1889, at an inn called the Gasth of Zum Pommer, the wife of an Austrian Customs official gave birth to a son, Adolf Hitler. He was the fourth child to the parents of Alois and Klara Hitler of Autstria. Hitler was a good student. He took singing lessons and sang in the church choir. When he hit an adolescent age, he began to rebel. When Hitler's dad acquired a top-ranking job in …showed first 75 words of 1666 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1666 total…list of 500 to 1000 SA leaders that they could dispose of. In a period of two days, all the men were brought before a firing range in a school basement and shot. In August of 1934 President Hindenburg died. Hitler's last obstacle in his quest for complete power was removed. Using his unlimited powers, he combined the offices of president and chancellor. To everyone in Germany he was now Der Fuhrer, the leader. Hitler's Reich had begun.