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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...