German Nazism was a major event in world history that affected numerous different countries as well as numerous different people. Adolf Hitler was the main cause of German Nazism and caused millions of deaths, six million of those being Jews. He is most well-known for the Holocaust that he created trying to rid Germany of all other religions, specifically the Jews. However, it is important to see Hitler before he became a dictator as well as to see what he did during his dictatorship along with what happened to the world after his reign ended. German Nazism had many causes and effects that continue to affect the world today.
Adolf Hitler was the main cause of World War II and brought about numerous detrimental changes to the worlds history. Before he was able to make these changes, however, he first had to grow up. Adolf was born to Alois and Klara on April 20, 1889 near the upper Austrian border. He was the fourth child out of six for this Catholic couple who moved to Linz, the Upper Austrian Capital, in 1898. Hitler always had a passion for the visual arts but his father was outspokenly against it. Alois wanted Adolf to enter the Habsburg civil service, and it wasn’t until Alois’ death that he was able to convince his mother
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He then moved to Vienna between 1908 and 1913 to try and gain access to the academy once again but failed. Adolf made very little money during this period and had to live in homeless shelters until 1909 when he started to paint watercolors for a business partner. While Hitler resided in Vienna, he was influenced by a man named Lueger who actively imposed anti-Jewish stereotypes forming Jews as the adversary to Germany. It wasn’t until 1913 that Hitler decided to leave Vienna for Munich which is where he was when World War I started (Gurian). While Hitler was an Austrian citizen, he still became a corporal in the German army. It was here that he was able to gain stability and notoriety and really start to develop his name