From A Mediocre Student to A Dictator: Adolf Hitler
             The day is April 20, 1889 and the place is Austria. It was there that
             the man who was to "save the fatherland" was born. Hitler began his
             schooling in a monastery in Germany and was known as a "lazy, bad-tempered,
             arrogant 'leader.'" His dreams of being a great artist quickly went down the
             drain after he was rejected at the Academy of Fine Arts. Hitler sank deep
             into himself, living on the street and through his discontentment began to
             see the uses of hate. His views began to push him to wanting to conquer
             Germany; he was only 18 at the time. He joined the war with Germany as a
             dispatch worker. After World War I, Hitler began looking for his
             opportunity to take control of Germany as their leader. This never would
             have been accomplished if the economic, social, and political conditions of
             the day were not all in place for him to take control.
             After the war the economic conditions of Germany were in shambles.
             Because Germany was forced to take most of the blame in the war, they
             were required to pay most of the damages of the war, not including their
             own debts from the war. Before the war four German marks could have
             bought one American dollar, but after the war it tool 4.2 trillion marks just
             to equal one dollar. Inflation was running rampid. People were using money
             as toilet paper because it cost less. Finally the government did away with
             the old currency and brought in a new one. The effects of this will be
             discussed later. Also because of the war there was great unemployment.
             Unemployment had doubled since before the war and was steadily increasing.
             Factories were producing more than they needed and so in order to fix the
             problem they produced less and therefore had to lay off several workers.
             Just like all over the world, Germany was experiencing their share of the
             Depression and ju...