What was Adolf Hitler like? Hitler's birthday - biography

Adolf Hitler, whose biography is full of brilliant achievements and monstrous crimes, has become an integral part of European and world history. He is one of those people who literally managed to push in a certain direction. Of course, the last statement has nothing to do with the moral side of his philosophy and activities.

Adolf Hitler: biography

Adolf Schicklgruber was born in a small town located on the border of Austria and Germany. Already at an early age, the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bthe greatness of the German nation was laid in his head. The first significant efforts in this matter were made by the school Fuhrer, Leopold Petsch, himself an ardent supporter of Prussian nationalism and a pan-Germanist. After graduation, the young man goes to Vienna, cherishing the dream of entering the art academy of this city. Many are well aware of the story of how a young man fails his exams in 1907, after which the rector of the academy recommends that he study architecture rather than fine arts. Young Adolf then returns to his native Linz, but a year later he tries his hand again and fails again. It was in the next period that Hitler, known later to the whole world, was formed. The biography of these years is filled with extreme poverty, constant vagrancy, housing under bridges and in flophouses, odd jobs and other pages from the bottom of life. But at the same time, the young man finally formed his political views during this period, in which he himself

admitted and the process of which he described in detail later in the book "My Struggle". Speaking about the reasons for the emergence of such a violent ideology, one should definitely take into account the specifics of the Weimar period, when nationalist sentiments, ideas of anti-German conspiracies were so popular in society, and many small Judeophobic political forces were widespread. At the same time, the young man had the opportunity to observe how, under the onslaught of the Slavs and Hungarians, the Germans were losing their absolutely dominant position in Austria-Hungary. All this came together in a very, very peculiar way, and then was rethought in the head of young Adolf.

Adolf Hitler: the path to power

After the First World War, being extremely disappointed, the young corporal again returned to his odd jobs, but already in Munich. His fate here was abruptly turned by chance. By the will of fate, he was destined to be in one of the beer establishments of the city, where the local patriotic party (then called the Workers' Party of Germany) was simultaneously holding its meeting. The guy who was carried away by politics was interested in their ideas, and in 1920 he joined this still small society. And soon, thanks to his own charisma and penetrating perseverance, he became her most important person. Hitler's first attempt to come to power dates back as early as 1923. We are talking about the famous November Beer Putsch, which ended in failure. As the putschists marched through the streets of Munich, they were stopped by police forces who opened fire on the rebels. An interesting story from the memoirs of eyewitnesses is conveyed by a well-known researcher (and in a former journalist in Weimar and Nazi Germany) William Shearer: under a barrage of fire, the putschists were forced to lie down on the ground; immediately after the police stopped shooting, the leader of the party was the first to jump up and start running from the scene of the collision, then got into the car and drove away. Strange, but the flight of Adolf Hitler did not affect his authority. Moreover, having coped with the first fear, he behaved very boldly on

ensuing lawsuit, which even added to his sympathy. However, for attempting a putsch, the young politician was nevertheless sent to prison in the Landsberg fortress. True, he spent less than a year there.

Adolf Hitler: political biography

And having been released at the end of 1925, he again began his struggle for power. With incendiary speeches, cunning political actions, outright blackmail of other political forces, violent reprisals against their opponents and outright deceit in Nazi propaganda, the NSDAP, after just a few years, became the most influential force in the country. And in Adolf Hitler, he forces the then President of the Republic, Paul von Hindenburg, to make himself Chancellor. From that moment on, the NSDAP is rapidly becoming the unified political force in the state, their ideology is the only true one, and Germany is immersed in

The splendor and monstrosity of the Fuhrer's largest struggle

Having come to power, the new head of state did not hide his true face for long. Inside the country, the opposition forces were quickly eliminated. The Fuhrer did not take long to prepare for foreign policy actions. Already in 1936, in violation of the Versailles agreements, he sent his troops into the demilitarized Rhineland. The submissive ignorance of this violation was only the first cowardly silence of the great powers in a long chain. This was followed by outright blackmail and the capture first of Austria, later of Czechoslovakia and Poland. In 1940, the fate of the occupation also befell France. England was barely saved. To retell the further biography of Adolf Hitler in detail, perhaps, does not make sense. It is hardly possible to find a person in our country who has not heard about the German invasion of the USSR, about the first successes of Blitzkrieg and the further gradual complete loss of any adequacy by the Fuhrer, who could not come to terms with defeats - first near Moscow, then near Stalingrad, and then on all fronts. The ideologue of the Nazi Party threw more and more batches of German soldiers into battle (which is often attributed to Zhukov and Stalin), laying an entire generation of Germans on the altar of his idea. However, the victorious pace of the allies completely drove the Fuhrer crazy. In the last days of his life, sick and broken, but with former fanaticism, the last thing left of the former Hitler, he declared that the German nation must perish if it could not win this war. Adolf Hitler found his death by taking poison on April 30, 1945.

Fuhrer (leader) of the National Socialist Party (since 1921), head of the German fascist state (in 1933 he became Reich Chancellor, in 1934 he combined this post and the post of president). Established a regime of fascist terror in the country. The immediate initiator of the outbreak of the Second World War. With the onset of Soviet troops, he committed suicide.

Hitler was born from his father's third marriage.

In 1895, at the age of 6, Adolf entered the public school in the town of Fischlham, near Linz. Two years later, being a very religious woman, his mother sent him to Lambach, to the parochial school of a Benedictine monastery, after which, as she hoped, her son would eventually become a priest. But he was expelled from school, caught smoking in the monastery garden. The family then moved to Leonding, a suburb of Linz, where the young Adolf immediately excelled in his studies. He stood out among his comrades for his perseverance, turning out to be a leader in all children's games. In 1900-1904 he attended a real school in Linz, and in 1904-1905 in Steyr. In high school, his progress was very mediocre.

At 16, Adolf dropped out of school. For two years he did nothing, wandering the streets or spending time in the library reading books on Germanic history and mythology.

At the age of 18 he went to Vienna to enter the Academy of Fine Arts there. He entered twice - once he did not pass the exam, the second time he was not even allowed to take it. He was advised to enter the architectural institute, but for this it was necessary to have a matriculation certificate.

In December 1908, his mother died, which was a huge shock in his life. For the next five years, he worked odd jobs, alms, or sold his sketches.

In February 1914, Adolf Hitler was called to Austria to undergo a medical examination for fitness for military service. But, as "too weak and unfit for military service," he was released. When the war broke out in August 1914, he turned to the King of Bavaria with a request to enlist in his army. He was assigned to the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment, recruited mainly from student volunteers. After only a few weeks of training, he was sent to the front.

At first he was an orderly, and then for almost the entire war he performed the duties of a messenger, delivering reports and orders from the headquarters of the regiment to the front line. During the four years of the war, he participated in 47 battles, often finding himself in the thick of it. Was wounded twice. On October 7, 1916, after being wounded in the leg, he was admitted to the Germis hospital near Berlin. Two years later, 4 weeks before the end of the war, he was struck by gases and spent three difficult months in the infirmary. He received his first award - the Iron Cross of the II degree - in December 1914, and on August 4, 1918 he was awarded the Iron Cross of the I degree, which was a rare award for a simple soldier in the imperial German army. Hitler received this last award by capturing an enemy officer and 15 soldiers.

On June 12, 1919, he was seconded to short-term courses of "political education", which functioned in Munich. After completing the courses, he became an agent in the service of a certain group of reactionary officers who fought against leftist elements among the soldiers and non-commissioned officers.

He compiled lists of soldiers and officers involved in the April uprising of workers and soldiers in Munich. He collected information about all kinds of dwarf organizations and parties regarding their worldview, programs and goals. And reported all this to the management.

On September 12, 1919, Hitler was sent to a meeting at the Sterneckerbrau. The meeting discussed the pamphlet of engineer Feder. Feder's ideas about "productive" and "unproductive" capital, about the need to fight "interest-bearing slavery", against loan offices and "general stores", flavored with chauvinism, hatred of the Treaty of Versailles, and most importantly, anti-Semitism, seemed to Hitler a completely suitable platform. He performed and was a success. And party leader Anton Drexler invited him to join the WDA. After consulting with his superiors, Hitler accepted this proposal.

Hitler, with all his oratorical fervor, rushed to win popularity for Drexler's party, at least within Munich. In the autumn of 1919, he spoke three times at crowded meetings. In February 1920, he rented the so-called front hall in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall and gathered 2,000 listeners. Convinced of his success as a party functionary, in April 1920, Hitler abandoned the spy's earnings.

In January 1921, Hitler had already filmed the Krone circus, where he performed to an audience of 6,500 people. Gradually, Hitler got rid of the founders of the party. Apparently, at the same time he renamed it the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany, abbreviated NSDAP.

Hitler obtained the position of the first chairman with dictatorial powers, expelling Drexler and Scharer. Instead of collegial leadership in the party, the principle of the Fuhrer was officially introduced.

By the end of 1923, Hitler was convinced that the Weimar Republic was on the verge of collapse, and that right now he could carry out the “march on Berlin” he had promised and overthrow the government of the “Jewish-Marxist traitors.” With the support of the army, he was going to bring Germany under Nazi control. Hitler initiated General Erich Ludendorff, a veteran of World War I, an extreme reactionary and militarist, into his plans, well-known among the people and the army. Hitler and Ludendorff tried to take advantage of the uncertainty of the political situation and organized an attempted coup d'etat in Munich on November 8, 1923. Two days after the unsuccessful "march on Berlin", Hitler was arrested by the police. On April 1, 1924, he and two accomplices were sentenced to five years in prison, plus the time they had already spent in prison. Ludendorff and other participants in the bloody events were generally acquitted.

Hitler spent only 9 months in Landsberg prison. He was provided with a comfortable cell where he could reflect on his mistakes. He had breakfast in bed, spoke to his cellmates and walked in the garden - all this was more like a sanatorium than a prison. Here he dictated to Rudolf Hess the first volume of Mein Kampf, which became the political bible of the Nazi movement.

By 1939, this book had been translated into 11 languages, and the total circulation was more than 5.2 million copies. The fee made Hitler a rich man.

The pinnacle of Hitler's success in that period was the first party congress in August 1927 in Nuremberg. In 1927-1928, that is, five or six years before coming to power, heading a still relatively weak party, Hitler created a "shadow government" in the NSDAP - Political Department II. Goebbels was the head of the propaganda department since 1928.

No less important "invention" of Hitler were the Gauleiters in the field, that is, the Nazi bosses in the field in individual lands.

In the Reichstag elections in 1928, the Nazis won only 12 seats, while the Communists - 54. In 1929, with the onset of the economic depression, Hitler formed an alliance with the nationalist Alfred Hugenberg to resist the reparations "Jung plan". Through the Hugenberg-controlled newspapers, Hitler was able from the start to reach out to a wide national audience. In addition, he had the opportunity to communicate with a huge number of industrialists and bankers, who easily provided his party with a solid financial foundation. In the 1930 elections, the NSDAP won over 6 million votes and won 107 seats in the Reichstag, thus becoming the second largest party in the country. The number of Communist representatives rose to 77. Hitler's scandalous tactics could not fail to attract the attention of German voters to him.

After Braunschweig joined Germany on February 25, 1932, Hitler decided to test the strength of his party in the struggle for the presidency. The aged Paul von Hindenburg had support among socialists, Catholics and Labor. There were two other candidates: army officer Theodor Duisterberg and communist leader Ernst Thalmann. Hitler ran a powerful election campaign and won over 30% of the vote, thereby depriving Hindenburg of an absolute majority. At the final stage of the elections, April 10, 1932, the popular war veteran still managed to regain victory with 53% of the vote (Hindenburg - 19359650; Hitler - 13418011; Thalmann - 3706655). In the Reichstag elections in July 1932, the Nazis won 230 seats and became the largest political party in Germany. In November, Hitler suffered a brief setback when the number of Nazi deputies dropped to 196, while the number of Communists in the Reichstag rose to 100. It was at this time that the bloody clashes in the streets between the Brownshirts and the Rot Front reached their peak.

On January 30, 1933, the 86-year-old President Hindenburg appointed the head of the NSDAP, Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany. On the same day, superbly organized stormtroopers concentrated on their assembly points. In the evening, with torches lit, they passed by the presidential palace, in one window of which stood Hindenburg, and in the other - Hitler.

Already at the first meeting on January 30, a discussion took place of measures directed against the Communist Party of Germany. Hitler spoke on the radio the next day. “Give us four years. Our task is to fight against communism.”

Hitler fully took into account the effect of surprise. He not only prevented the anti-Nazi forces from uniting and consolidating, he literally stunned them, took them by surprise and very soon defeated them completely. This was the first Nazi blitzkrieg on their own territory.

From the rule of law, Germany has become a country of total lawlessness.

During the same year, 1933, Hitler gradually prepared himself to subjugate both industry and finance, to make them an appendage of his military-political authoritarian state.

As early as 1935, Hitler concluded the notorious “Navy Agreement” with England, which gave the Nazis the opportunity to openly build warships. In the same year, universal conscription was introduced in Germany. On March 7, 1936, Hitler ordered the occupation of the demilitarized Rhineland. The West was silent, although it could not help but see that the dictator's appetites were growing.

In 1936, the Nazis intervened in the Spanish Civil War - Franco was their protege.

On March 15, 1939, the Nazis took over. On August 23, 1939, Hitler signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union and thereby secured a free hand in Poland.

The German people, according to Hitler's theory, were humiliated by the victors in the First World War and, under the conditions that arose after the war, could not successfully develop and fulfill the mission assigned to them by history. In order to develop national culture and increase the sources of power, he needed to acquire additional permanent space. And since there were no free lands, they should have been taken where the population density is low and the land is used irrationally. Such an opportunity for the German nation was available only in the East, at the expense of territories inhabited by peoples less valuable in racial terms than the Germans, primarily the Slavs.

The first major defeat of the Wehrmacht in the winter of 1941/1942 near Moscow had a strong impact on Hitler.

Since 1943, all of Hitler's activities were in fact limited to current military problems. He no longer made far-reaching political decisions. Almost all the time he was at his headquarters, surrounded only by the closest military advisers.

In the summer of 1944, he considered it possible, steadfastly holding positions on the Soviet-German front, to thwart the invasion of Europe that was being prepared by the Western Allies, and then use the situation favorable for Germany to reach an agreement with them. But this plan was not destined to be realized. The Germans failed to throw into the sea the Anglo-American troops that had landed in Normandy.

The failed assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944, committed by a group of opposition-minded German officers, was used by the Fuhrer as a pretext for the all-encompassing mobilization of human and material resources to continue the war. By the autumn of 1944, Hitler managed to stabilize the front, which had begun to fall apart in the east and west, restore many defeated formations and form a number of new ones.

He again thinks about how to cause a crisis in his opponents. In the West, he thought, it would be easier to do this. The idea that came to him was embodied in the plan of the German performance in the Ardennes.

However, all the calculations were not justified. The Western Allies, although experiencing some shock from the unexpected German offensive, did not want to have anything to do with Hitler and the regime he led. They continued to work closely with the Soviet Union, which helped them get out of the crisis caused by the Wehrmacht's Ardennes operation by launching an offensive ahead of schedule from the Vistula line.

By the middle of spring 1945, Hitler no longer had any hope for a miracle. On April 22, 1945, he decided not to leave the capital, stay in his bunker and commit suicide. The fate of the German people no longer interested him. The Germans, Hitler believed, turned out to be unworthy of such a “brilliant leader” as he, therefore they had to die and give way to stronger and more viable peoples. In the last days of April, Hitler was concerned only with the question of his own fate. He feared the judgment of the peoples for the crimes committed. He was horrified by the news of the execution of Mussolini along with his mistress and the mockery of their corpses in Milan. This end terrified him. Before his death, on the night of April 29, he arranged a marriage with his long-term mistress Eva Braun. On April 30, both of them committed suicide, and their corpses, on the orders of Hitler, were burned in the garden of the Reich Chancellery, next to the bunker, where the Fuhrer spent the last months of his life.

The official census indicates that Adolf was born in Austria in April 1889. There is a version that his father Alois Schicklgruber was illegitimate and bore his mother's surname until the age of 14. His mother later married a certain I.G. Hidler (over time, this surname has changed a little), and under this surname Alois has already begun his youthful life, i.e. Adolf himself was already born into a family of full-fledged Hitlers.

The stepfather belonged to the family of Jews of Czech origin. Naturally, he had nothing to do with Adolf's family tree. In 1928, after a series of investigations, a theory appeared that Adolf's grandfather could be Jewish. Most opponents of Hitler's political beliefs happily supported this version, trying to discredit his personality and question his membership in the SS. Gaps in the biography of the German Fuhrer contributed to the strengthening of this theory. However, having raised secret archives, historians have come to the conclusion that there are no Jewish roots in Hitler's family. And today this version is recognized as official, completely refuting the Jewish origin of the Fuhrer. After a detailed study of the declassified documents, it was found that in the pedigree of Hitler in several generations there were only Austrians.

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary. He was born into the family of a shoemaker. From childhood, Adolf showed the ability to draw, and in his youth he earned a living from this. His parents, Alois and Clara Hitler, were ordinary peasants, but his father managed to break into the people and become a state customs official, which allowed the family to live in decent conditions.

Adolf's childhood years were spent in constant moving, caused by the peculiarities of his father's work, and changing schools, where he did not show any special talents, but still managed to finish four classes of a real school in Steyr and received a certificate of education, in which good grades were only in drawing and physical education . During this period, his mother Klara Hitler dies of cancer, which dealt a serious blow to the psyche of the young man, but he did not break down, but, having completed the necessary documents for receiving a pension for himself and his sister Paula, he moved to Vienna and set foot on the path of adulthood.

At first he tried to enter the Art Academy, as he had an outstanding talent and craving for fine arts, but failed the entrance exams. The next few years, the biography of Adolf Hitler is filled with poverty, vagrancy, odd jobs, constant moving from place to place, rooming houses under city bridges. All this time, Adolf did not inform his relatives or friends about his location, as he was afraid of being drafted into the army, where he would have to serve along with the Jews.

At the age of 24, Hitler moved to Munich, where he met with the First World War, which made him very happy. He immediately volunteered for the Bavarian army, in whose ranks he took part in many battles. He took the defeat of Germany in the First World War very painfully and categorically blamed politicians for it. Against this background, he engaged in large-scale propaganda work, which allowed him to get into the political movement of the People's Workers' Party, which he skillfully turned into a Nazi one.

Having become the head of the NSDAP, Adolf Hitler gradually began to make his way deeper and deeper to political heights and in 1923 organized the "Beer putsch". Enlisting the support of 5,000 stormtroopers, he broke into a beer bar, where a rally of the leaders of the General Staff was held, and announced the overthrow of the traitors in the Berlin government. On November 9, 1923, the Nazi putsch headed towards the ministry to seize power, but was intercepted by police detachments, who used firearms to disperse the Nazis.

In March 1924, Adolf Hitler, as the organizer of the putsch, was convicted of treason and sentenced to 5 years in prison. But the Nazi dictator spent only 9 months in prison. In December 1924, for unknown reasons, he was released.

Immediately after his release, Hitler revived the Nazi party NSDAP and transformed it, with the help of Gregor Strasser, into a nationwide political force. During that period, he managed to establish close ties with the German generals, as well as establish contact with large industrial magnates. At the same time, Adolf Hitler wrote his work "My Struggle", in which he outlined his autobiography and the idea of ​​National Socialism.

In 1930, the political leader of the Nazis became the supreme commander of the assault troops, and in 1932 he tried to get the post of Reich Chancellor. To do this, he had to renounce his Austrian citizenship and become a German citizen, as well as enlist the support of the allies. From the first time, Hitler failed to win the elections, in which Kurt von Schleicher was ahead of him. A year later, German President Paul von Hindenburg, under Nazi pressure, dismissed the victorious von Schleicher and appointed Hitler in his place.

This appointment did not cover all the hopes of the Nazi leader, since power over Germany continued to remain in the hands of the Reichstag, and his powers included only the leadership of the Cabinet of Ministers, which had yet to be created. In just 1.5 years, Adolf Hitler managed to remove all obstacles from his path in the form of the President of Germany and the Reichstag and become an unlimited dictator. From that moment, the oppression of Jews and Gypsies began in the country, trade unions were closed and the "Hitler era" began, which for 10 years of his reign was completely saturated with human blood.

In 1934, Hitler gained power over Germany, where a total Nazi regime immediately began, the ideology of which was the only true one. Having become the ruler of Germany, the Nazi leader immediately revealed his true face and began major foreign policy actions. Rapidly creating the Wehrmacht and restoring aviation and tank troops, as well as long-range artillery. Contrary to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany seizes the Rhineland, and after Czechoslovakia and Austria.

Then he carried out a purge in his ranks. The dictator organized the so-called "Night of the Long Knives", when all prominent Nazis who posed a threat to Hitler's absolute power were destroyed. Assigning himself the title of supreme leader of the "Third Reich", the Fuhrer created the Gestapo police and the concentration camp system, where he imprisoned all "undesirable elements", namely Jews, gypsies, political opponents, and later Soviet prisoners of war.

The basis of Adolf Hitler's domestic policy was the ideology of racial discrimination and the superiority of indigenous Aryans over other peoples. His goal was to become the only leader of the whole world, in which the Slavs should become "elite" slaves, and the lower races, to which he ranked Jews and Gypsies, were completely destroyed.

Along with massive crimes against humanity, the ruler of Germany was developing a similar foreign policy, deciding to take over the whole world.

In April 1939, Hitler approves a plan to attack Poland, which was defeated already in September of the same year. Further, the Germans occupied Norway, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg and broke through the front of France. In the spring of 1941, Hitler captured Greece and Yugoslavia, and on June 22 attacked the USSR, then led by Joseph Stalin.

In 1943, the Red Army launched a large-scale offensive against the Germans, thanks to which World War II entered the territory of the Reich in 1945, which completely drove the Fuhrer crazy. He sent pensioners, teenagers and the disabled to fight, ordering the soldiers to stand to the death, while he himself hid in the "bunker" and watched what was happening from the side.

There are several versions why Adolf Hitler hated the Jews so much, whom he tried to "wipe off the face of the earth." Historians who have studied the personality of the "bloody" dictator put forward several theories, each of which could be true. The first and most plausible version is the "racial policy" of the German dictator, who considered only native Germans to be people. In this regard, he divided all nations into three parts - the Aryans, who were supposed to rule the world, the Slavs, who were assigned the role of slaves in his ideology, and the Jews, whom Hitler planned to completely destroy.

The economic motives of the Holocaust are also not ruled out, since at that time Germany was in a critical state in terms of the economy, and the Jews had profitable enterprises and banking institutions, which Hitler took away from them after exile in concentration camps.

There is also a version that Hitler destroyed the Jewish nation in order to maintain the morale of his army. He gave the Jews and Gypsies the role of victims, whom he gave to be torn to pieces so that the Nazis could enjoy human blood, which, according to the leader of the Third Reich, should set them up for victory.

Today we will talk about one of the brightest (in a negative sense) heroes of the 20th century - Adolf Hitler, whether he was unambiguously negative, who was behind him, and most importantly - who he was - a villain or .... genius (imagine, there are those who consider Hitler a hero, a genius).

Hitler. Perhaps only very young children do not know who he is. About 7 decades have passed since his (official) death, but this character still evokes the most negative reviews in people, this is one of the most striking examples when you can remember bad deeds ...

But today we will talk not only about the negative side of Hitler, but also about what few people talk about - about Hitler as a person, what was human in him and whether he was really a "devil in the flesh" or this the mask was invented for him by those who rule him, and so on.

Adolf Hitler - the founder and central figure of National Socialism, the founder of the totalitarian dictatorship of the Third Reich, the leader (Führer) of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (1921-1945), the Reich Chancellor (1933-1945) and the Fuhrer (1934-1945) of Germany, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces Germany (since December 19, 1941) in World War II.

In the photo, Hitler's painting "The courtyard of the old residence in Munich", 1914

Pictured is a picture of Hitler

Hitler was born at the end of the 19th century in a small village in Austria-Hungary to a simple, modestly living family, his father was about 50 years old, his mother was about 30, his father was the third marriage, Hitler had several brothers and sisters, to one of the sisters - Paula - he was very attached, helped her until his death in 1945. E There are also versions that Adolf Hitler received the surname as a result of an error in the documents or as a result of the correction by his father of a previously uncomfortable long surname.

In the photo, Hitler in childhood and school

Adolf showed good promise at the beginning of schooling (6-7 years), but after transferring to a city school where the family moved, he wilted and taught only those subjects that he liked, namely history, geography, drawing, remained in the second year . Later, in 1939, Hitler bought his "favorite" elementary school in Fischlham, where he received only excellent grades, and ordered the construction of another school building.

At the age of 7-8, Hitler moved to the second grade of a school at a Catholic monastery, where he sang in the church choir and helped the priest during Mass. According to friends: “Here he first saw the swastika on the coat of arms of Abbot Hagen. The same later he ordered to be carved from wood in his office.

Then the family moved again and Hitler went to a school that he did not like.

Later, his critical attitude towards the church was formed mainly under the influence of his father's statements. Hitler's father died unexpectedly in 1903, when the boy was only 13 years old.

And although Adolf had many disputes and confrontations with his father, at the coffin of his father he sobbed uncontrollably and was very worried about the loss.

Father instructed Adolf to become an official, but the boy himself wanted to be an artist, despite the suffering associated with the death of his father, Adolf decided to go into the field of drawing.

At the age of 15, Hitler composed a play, poetry, texts for musical works, and in general the teenager saw his path in art - drawing and writing.

A French teacher (a subject Adolf hated) said of him:

“Hitler was undoubtedly gifted, albeit one-sidedly. He almost did not know how to control himself, he was stubborn, self-willed, wayward and quick-tempered. Wasn't diligent."

“According to numerous testimonies, it can be concluded that already in his youth, Hitler showed pronounced psychopathic traits.

A friend of his youth Kubicek and other associates of Hitler testify that he was constantly at knives with everyone and felt hatred for everything that surrounded him. Therefore, his biographer Joachim Fest admits that Hitler's anti-Semitism was a focused form of hatred that raged until then in the dark and finally found its object in the Jew.

A little later, Hitler decided to enter an art school, but failed the entrance exams., received advice from the rector to take up architecture, later, after the death of his mother, the teenager again entered the art academy, but again failed.

Adolf's mother was diagnosed with cancer in 1907, the last 2 months (November-December) her son took care of her, buried her next to his father.

Pictures of Hitler's paintings

Having issued pensions for himself and his sister Paula for the loss of his family, Hitler went on the run, hiding from the army and realizing himself as a free artist: he painted small-format paintings, often changed addresses. Later he was declared unfit for the army, but in 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War, he himself expressed a desire to join the Bavarian army as a soldier.

Colleagues characterized Hitler as an impeccable soldier and comrade; in 1918, as a result of a chemical shell explosion, Adolf partially lost his sight. Having experienced the loss of Germany as a personal tragedy, Hitler was especially eager to defend the rights, and therefore began to appear in the field of oratory. In the 1920s he became the chairman of the NSDAP (German National Socialist Workers' Party), he was able, thanks to his bright charisma and the ability to set the masses in the right direction. From 1933 to 1945 - Reich Chancellor of Germany and Prussia.

We will not discuss the details of Hitler's leadership, leadership of the country, political battles, military operations, because there are many films about this and many have long been familiar with these moments.

We are trying to see an ordinary person in Hitler and understand, nevertheless, whether he was a villain or someone's pawn ...

In general, while the picture is this: an ordinary German boy (however, someone questions the well-known roots of Hitler, attributing to him Jewishness), born in a modestly living family, dreamed of becoming an artist, but failed in exams, sincerely regretted the death of his father and mother, looked after his mother before his death, was attached to his sister, was a good soldier and comrade in the war, however, all this against the backdrop of mild psychopathy. Nothing particularly shocking that could give a hint that this boy will burn people by the millions in furnaces, moreover, a very human and quite sincere character.

Even more convincing facts: Hitler, according to eyewitnesses, was very fond of Geli Raubal (niece), loved like a man, close blood ties in their family are not uncommon, later Hitler had a relationship with a close relative - Eva Braun, and died with her, committing suicide (according to the official version). When Geli Raubal was killed (although suicide was attributed to her, but this was disputed by many) - Hitler could not recover for a long time, tried to lay hands on himself, was very worried about her death.

In addition, Hitler was a vegetarian, he actively began to practice vegetarianism after the death of Geli Raubal. He also loved cartoons, especially Disney's "Snow White", even drew them ..

Pictures of Hitler's paintings

As we can see, feelings were not alien to Hitler.

Let's go back to what Hitler conquered the people and who he was.

First, what did Hitler do when he came to power? He conquered the people not with manna from heaven and idle talk, but did the most essential: he gave people jobs, stabilized the social situation, launched large-scale construction, ultimately aimed at expanding strategic reserves, helped those in need, the people were united by patriotism, national holidays, striving for a goal. All those who were against it went to concentration camps.

Against this background of confidence in the leader of the country, the realization of the true goal began - propaganda of anti-Semitism, mass repressions of gypsies and Jews, later the Holocaust and wars against great powers ...

That is, if the people agreed with the authorities and peacefully “swallowed this pill” of compromise with the murders, then everything is fine, but if they did not agree, they were treated like an enemy. Naturally, the people were afraid to stumble, in fear they took the side of the force, justifying the actions of the latter.

To the question of how millions could go on about one person and who is a person at all - a wolf or a sheep, if he becomes so indifferent to someone else's blood and pain. This is very well written in the books of Fromm (and other psychoanalysts of post-Freudianism, of the 20th century - for example), in particular, The Soul of Man, in particular, about Hitler and why peoples obeyed him. One of the main forces of persuasion in this case was the fear of people losing their lives, protection, family, loved ones, the fear of death of their own and loved ones. For the purpose of self-preservation, people under the influence of fear were ready to accept any absurd idea, cruel, bloody, violence as salvation and idealize them, raising them to the cult of life.

And one more thing: very often people who went through wars, revolutions, rebellions and the most difficult times of countries remembered more vividly not prosperity, peace, tranquility, but namely difficult events, the heroism of some, the cowardice of others, adrenaline in the blood, exploding bombs, life for idea. When rivers of blood flow and a red flag looms before their eyes with some idea, many people have a distortion of internal values, murders cease to be a crime and the person himself loses his bearings, for example, a previously calm comrade, unable to offend flies, picks up a machine gun and goes to work " killer" of prisoners, for the sake of an idea, for the good of patriotism ... no discord with conscience.

People are like wolves and sheep at the same time, they sometimes have so much potential cruelty that a person himself may not be able to control these elements, under the influence of pressure and misinformation, distortion of facts and the ability to convince (for example, Hitler was a powerful speaker) - people can it is easy to turn into a cruel mass, persecuting the Jews and all those who are objectionable.

Yes, disinformation and presentation, stimulation of the masses, brainwashing in this case is another important moment that took place in the history of Hitler.

That is, all people are pawns that can be controlled, but was Hitler himself a pawn?

There are many not unfounded versions that politicians and financiers created Hitler, in particular:

« The main sponsors of Hitler and his party were the financiers of Great Britain and the United States. From the very beginning, Hitler was a "project". The energetic Fuhrer was a tool for uniting Europe against the Soviet Union, other important tasks were also solved, for example, the "New World Order" field tests, which were planned to be distributed throughout the planet, passed. Sponsored by Hitler and the German financial and industrial circles associated with the global financial international. Among the sponsors of Hitler was Fritz Thyssen (the eldest son of the industrialist August Thyssen), since 1923 he provided significant material support to the Nazis, in 1930 he publicly supported Hitler.

Financial assistance to the Nazis was provided by the German industrialist and financial magnate Gustav Krupp. Among the bankers, Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank and Adolf Hitler's confidant for relations with his political and financial sponsors in Western countries, collected money for Hitler for Hitler.

The Fuhrer and the NSDAP were sponsored by such influential Jewish industrialists as Reinold Gesner and Fritz Mandel. Significant assistance to Hitler was provided by the famous banking dynasty of the Warburgs and personally by Max Warburg (director of the Hamburg bank M.M. Warburg & Co.).

However, a special place in the history of the relationship between the Fuhrer and bankers is occupied by bankers of Jewish origin. Large financial injections into the NSDAP were made by influential Jewish industrialists Fritz Mandel and Reinold Gesner. Significant assistance to Hitler was provided by the well-known banking dynasty of the Warburgs and its head, Max Warburg personally, who until 1938 was the director of the German industrial giant IG Farbenindustry - "the backbone of the German military machine."

There are also versions that Hitler was “made” by Zionists who want to demonstrate their power and laws with their own eyes, but the question remains how to combine the Holocaust and the creation of Hitler by the Zionists, as well as the version that Hitler began the attempts to found Israel. Let's leave that for other topics.

Did Hitler himself send people to furnaces and gas chambers? No, by the hands of uncomplaining wards who were blinded by the idea of ​​achieving good through temporary evil. Not so long ago, we published an article about the protocols of the wise men of Zion, where the murders of the goyim were justified by the achievement of the goal of the accession of the King of the Jews in the end. There is something similar here. The Aryan race, sole power in the hands of one people, and everyone who is called to be an assistant in restoring order can be justified, all murders, and mass and cruel ones, medical experiments, bullying.

If the people were so manipulative, why couldn't Hitler himself be a puppet in someone's hands? He simply had many abilities, one of the main ones was the ability to lead the masses, to drive the most crazy ideas into people's heads under the guise of salvation, which is why he became the head, and his performers are in the lower ranks.

However, one should not forget that the choice is still made by the person himself, and how the same Hitler and the same wards of his had the opportunity to refuse, but did not think to do so.

Hitler, being traumatized as a child by a psychopath, decided to find a target for venting all the troubles, deprivations, frustrations and hatred on certain categories of people, thus trying to get rid of the complexes that tormented him, plus seized upon the power that blinded him and it seemed to him not enough , it was difficult to stop, control of the masses (however, not all traumatized in childhood become Hitlers, I assume that he deliberately chose his evil path, given his psychopathic characteristics).

As a result, the hypertrophied instinct of evil, which was in the hands of the "creators of Hitler", actively fueled by the latter, crossed all boundaries ... Hitler was eliminated or forced / forced to withdraw when he was no longer needed. He could also be misinformed in order to inflame in anger and hatred, to set him against other peoples. What happened to Hitler in the end - did he kill himself or live quietly in Argentina - we will never know, and it is not so important in the context of our topic.

Quotes from people (from the forums) about what they think of Hitler (the spelling of the authors of the posts):

“Genius is the creator. The villain is the destroyer.

evil genius

genius villain

Hitler was, Hitler swam away ... he was sick and, in fact, unhappy.

he was a Jew. Schicklgruber is a real surname.

He was human first and foremost! and people make mistakes. especially when it is pushed and pushed very skillfully!

Geniuses are loudly said, the Fuhrer, rhetoricians and troublemaker. A politician who not only promised, but also implemented the promise with his own hands, is selective and no more. The mistakes made by him are not the mistakes of a genius, but of an ambitious leader. A warrior on two fronts is idiocy, to declare a US soldier, with the obvious failure of the Blitzkrieg in December 1941. Only after this decision of his, you can declare him an idiot, not a genius.

Well, about Adolf Aloizovich, it’s impossible to answer unambiguously, but he definitely wasn’t an average person, no matter how hard they tried to portray it in Soviet times, he was just born at the wrong time, but there would have been more one talented architect

Hitler is definitely not a genius. Rather, he is crazy, a fanatic with some ability to convince and a great speaker.

Hitler is a brilliant psycho, who was specially found by Western bigwigs for the war against the red threat in the form of Stalin's despotism.

Personally, I think that an artist from Hitler would have turned out to be average, he painted better than many, but there are much more talented personalities, only his trace, brilliantly evil, in history is bright, and who he was - everyone has their own associations.