I watched a documentary called The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler. It starts out talking about Hitler's background. He was a political genius and had a fatal attraction to the German people. He is known as one of the most popular ruler in Europe. Hitler was born in Brownout. Hitler's parents and childhood were normal, but his dad always beat him. He was a catholic and when he was in school he was top of his class. In his teens he was very moody and he wanted to become an artist or an architect Hitler was very good at art but he wasn’t good enough to get into a good school.
He later called his early life the most miserable time of his life. Hitler really wanted to become a artist still. When WWI started for Germany there was a photographer that was at the ceremony thing and he got a picture of the crowd. In the crowd was the 25 year old Hitler and they have just found a video of Hitler waiting in line to become a soldier. When he was in the war he thought that he belonged there. He knew that Germany was going to win. Hitler spent most of the war days in the trenches and he was the messenger and he had to run back and forth in the trenches. For his bravery he won the iron cross twice and the first time he won the iron cross he said that it was the happiest day of his life. He also captured 4 French soldiers by himself. In 1918 Hitler was in a gas attack and it left him blind for several weeks and then the Germans surrendered. He was convinced that the soldiers were stabbed in the back by communists. He believed that the Jews were behind the whole "Stabbed in the back" saying. The Jews were like scapegoats for the Germans lost.
Hitler soon discovered that he was very good at public speaking. That later became the start of his fatal attraction. He joined the National Socialist German Workers Party and in 1931 he became leader of the Nazi party. Hitler was arrested and he didn't eat when he was in prison. After prison he wanted to become leader of Germany. To the Germans the only one that could get them out of their depression was Hitler. Hitler had an ability to make people stop thinking about everything and have them agree with him. When Hitler gave speeches he would wait until he had the whole audiences’ attention and then he would star speaking, but he would start out slow and then he would suddenly become very loud and forceful. The people really liked him because they thought that he was very confident and strong. In 1933 he comes to power and a month later the Reisch building goes up in flames and he thinks that there is a plan to over throw the new government. The people thought the dictatorship was the only way to get out of the depression. Hitler then somehow rescues all the unemployed people and gets all their jobs back for them.
I never knew that Hitler wanted to be an artist when he was little. He is a very good painter and I think that if he could have kept on going with his painting career then he would still be alive (maybe) and we would have never had to worry about WWII.
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Great summary!