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1889. He came from a middle-class family that lived comfortably, although he
suggested in his book Mein Kampf that his family was poor and his childhood was
filled with hardship. His father Alois Hitler was a customs official with the
Austrian Civil Service. His mother, Klara was a former servant girl and became
Alois' third wife. The young Hitler had ability but performed poorly at school.
He reacted against discipline. One of his teachers described Hitler as "wilful,
arrogant and bad tempered. He had obvious difficulty in fitting in at school.
Moreover he was lazy.... He demanded of his fellow pupils their unqualified
subservience, fancying himself in the role of leader."
. . .
the president, including former chancellor Papen, and some powerful
industrialists, now believed that Hitler and the Nazis would have to be brought
into the government. The new German Air Force, called the Luftwaffe, took the task of
rebuilding Germany's air power with enthusiasm. The Nazis also forced people
to work. He wanted the Reich to dominate Europe. By a vote of 441 to 94, the Enabling Act was passed. Hitler intended to ignore the military clauses
of the Treaty of Versailles. The party's
extreme right wing views to communism and to the republic, the party attracted
ex-Freikorps troops and by 1921 the Nazi Party had its own private army, the
Sturmabteilung (SA) or Storm Troopers. He displayed courage under fire
and was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class. Hitler then used his trial in 1924 to
promote his party and his views. Once again in March, but in 1939, Slovakia
became a separate state and becomes allied to Germany. It was fast
but it did not handle well.
In September 1936 Hitler introduced the Four Year Plan that aimed to make
Germany totally self-sufficient in essential commodities such as oil, iron ore,
textiles and food.
By the end of 1932 three chancellors- Bruning, Papen and Schleicher had all
failed to achieve any kind of stability in government.
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