World War Ll

World War II

* Hitler

* 4/20/1889

* Vienna at age 19

* Snubbed by artists and begins to develop his anti-Semitic feelings

* Saw himself as a pure German

* Resented people in power

* 1913- Moved to Germany and sold paintings

* Twice won Iron Cross for Bravery

* 1919- Member of German Workers Party (Nazis)

* Against Weimer Republic and Treaty of Versailles

* Considered radicals by most Germans

* Beer Hall Putsch-1923

* • Nazis attempted an “Unsuccessful” takeover of Germany which started in a Beer Hall in Munich

* Hitler sentenced to 5 years in prison

* Served less than a year

* Wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle) with Hess while in jail

* Very anti-Semitic

* Hitler’s Henchmen

* Joseph Goebbels

* Speaker-equal of Hitler

* Influences masses

* Minister of propaganda

* Gave cyanide to 6 children

* Killed himself when Hitler died

* Controlled media

* Ernest Rohm

* Hitler’s closest friend

* Head of SA (Brownshirts)

* Murdered in the Night of Long Knives- thought of as a threat

* Martin Borman

* Controlled inner workings of the party

* Not liked

* Died outside of Berlin in 1948

* Rudolph Hess

* Hitler’s deputy secretary

* Took down Mein Keimpf from Hitler’s dictation

* Existence based on devotion to his “Fuhrer”

* Herman Goering

* Second in command of III Reich

* World War I airplane hero

* Loved power

* Set up first concentration camps to re-educate Nazis

* Controlled the Gestapo (secret police)

* Heinrich Himmler

* Chicken farmer

* Most powerful and dreaded man in Europe

* Head of the SS (Hitler’s body guards)

* President of police in Munich

* First model concentration...