In Braunau, Austria, a small town across the Inn River from Germany on April 20,1889, Adolf Hitler was born. Not long after his birth, Alois Hitler, his father, moved the family to Linz, Austria. Hitler attended school in Linz. He was a good student until he was in high school. Hitler's desire to b...

The Holocaust is described as the deliberate systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jews by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. Adolf Hitler was born in Austria-Hungary, he then moved to Vienna to join the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts to follow his ambition of being an artist. Whe...

Rebecca Samuels Who Voted for the Nazis and Why? For years historians have been obsessed with the question who voted Nazi? , this is mainly because of how incredible the Nazis rise to power actually was. The Nazis came to power only fourteen years after the party had been founded, this was...

Paul Joseph Goebbles Paul Joseph Goebbles was born on the 29th October 1897, in Rheydt, in the Rhineland. His father was a pheasant farmer, and his mother was a French woman. Both of his parents were strict Roman Catholics. Goebbles was extremely academically successful throughout his life. T...

Introduction President Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany on January 30th 1933, having successfully campaigned to make the Nazis the most popular party. He had been legally elected and chosen to form a government. Why was he able to capture the hearts and minds of the German people ...

Anne Frank believed that deep down inside, all human beings were good. Obviously, she never saw the Nazi concentration camps before she wrote that down in her diary. She didn't know much about World War II when she was alive back in the 1940's. She only knew that she was hiding in th...

The Weimar republic was never without some weaknesses, in the early years the republic was marked by economic crisis in the shape of inflation and hyperinflation, which led to declining living standards and obliterated the small savings of many Germans, leading to resentment of the new political ord...