By: Sean Stewert Price As Retold By: Lucy W. - Mr. Goetz's 7th Grade .

By: Sean Stewert Price As retold by: Lucy W.

Date Event April 20th 1889 Adolf Hitler was born in Austria Hungary 1919 The Nazi Party is joined by Adolf Hitler. 19361938 Czechoslovakia and Austria is seized by Adolf Hitler. Germany is also Rearmed by Hitler. December 1941 The U.S. enters the war (World War 2) in Europe April 30th 1945 Adolf Hitler kills himself in his bunker with Soviet Troops in Berlin

Summary: Adolf Hitler started all the concentration camps in Buchenwald where 11 million people died. The camps were filled with lots of people including Jews, gay people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and war prisoners. Edward R. Murrow ( a reporter) went to the camps on April 12, 1945. Analysis: I believe that Adolf Hitler deserves to be in the Wicked History series. He deserves to be in the series because he killed 11,000,000 people just because they were different from him.

Description: U.S. troops walk past corpses at the Norshausen concentration camp in Germany. An estimated 11 million victims were murdered in the Nazi camps during the year. (page 84) Analysis: This picture shows all the people that died in these camps and there were so many of them, ( 11 million).Hitler did this to these people so I think that he definitely deserves his name in the Wicked History Series.

Question: What made you so angry during your childhood and what were all the dangerous ideas you acquired back during your childhood? Answer: Well, I was angry because my Dad wanted me to work for the government and I didn’t so we were always in fights. Also, all the teachers that I had I hated except one. And for the second part of your question, during my childhood I was taught about Otto Van Bismark who gave me the idea that “ the great issues of the day [should] be decided not by means of speeches and majority resolutions, but by iron and blood”.

Question: What did you do when you were in Vienna? Answer: Well, before I went to Vienna I spent two years mainly drawing and attending operas at home. And then after my mom died of breast cancer, I moved to Vienna. Now, while I was in Vienna, I got really mad because the school I applied for, ( the Academy of Fine Arts) rejected me. I still had money left from my mom but I used it all so I lived on the streets sleeping at homeless shelters, parks, or doorways. Also, While living in Vienna I developed a hatred for Jews and later I moved to Munich, Germany. That’s what I did.

Question: What did you do during World War 1? Answer: Well, during the war I was stationed in Munich and for four years I helped fight in “brutal trench battles.” 3,754 of our men died but for some reason I didn’t. Although, on October 13, 1918 I got temporarily blinded and had to resign. Now, in recovery I was told that we lost the war. Everybody was outraged including me. And of course losing the war was the Jews fault.

Question: How did you take over the Nazi party and what did you do to the Beer Halls in Munich? Answer: Well, it all started when the treaty of Versalles was signed, “ I felt stabbed in the back” so, I started going to meetings of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, or otherwise known as Nazi. Now, I could basically control this party any way I wanted to. I started “giving speeches in Munich.” these speeches were mainly about my hatred towered Jews. I gave speeches at the meeting halls and taverns and put “on a fiery show”. That is how I took over the Nazi party. As for what I did in the Beer Halls in Munich, I fired a gun which started a revolution and I also kidnapped three officials. That is what I did in the Beer Halls.

Question: What happened after you were convicted of treason? Answer: After I was convicted of treason I had my trial and was sentenced to five years in prison. I then began to write my book, Mein Kampf, with a typewriter I received as a present. After that I decided to try to win the democratic election and “seize” power. Then, in December 1924, nine months after my trial, I was released from prison. That is was happened after I was convicted of treason.

Question: How did you revive the Nazi Party and take over Germany? Answer: I revived the Nazi party by having people “spread the Nazi message” and having people enforce my commands. I took over Germany by giving many speeches to different audiences. I also put out posters and when the ban was lifted, I told people to “give us power or we will take it at the point of a gun.”

Question: What went up in flames and how did you stamp out Democracy in Germany? Answer: The Reichstag building went up in flames and I believe it was the communist’s fault. Any way, for your second question, I made a decree that “suspended freedom of speech and the right to assemble in public”. I also passed the Enabling Act. In fact, after president Hindenburg passed away I had full control of Germany.

Question: How did people “fall under [your] spell?” Answer: Well, the rallies I had were propaganda. So, when people saw them (outsiders I mean) they were intrigued and were “chilling spectacles”. This was how they “[fell] under [my] spell.”

Question: Where did you march to and how did you risk war with France and Britain plus get away with it? Answer: Well, since the Nazi party got control of Germany, generals were rebuilding our army. Our army was three times larger than was “allowed” so when this was announced it almost started a war. But I got away with it because nobody wanted to fight. And also, on March 7, 1936 I “sent” soldiers into Rhineland. That’s where we marched to (to answer your first question).

Question: Where did you spread to outside of Germany and where were your first conquests to? Answer: Well, people were living “in” Austria and in” the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia” which were not in Germany, although I wanted them to be. Our first conquest was to Austria. Particularly Vienna. In Vienna we “seized important government offices.” We also made “ Shuschnigg resign.” That was our first conquest. Oh, and later I also sent soldiers to the borders of Czechoslovakia and threatened to invade; but, there was no war.

Question: How did you push Europe to the brink of war and how did you persecute the Jewish people? Answer: Well, the Nazis persecuted the Jews by ruining shops that they owned( which all damage done to them could not be covered by insurance because we pulled it). We also “ set fire to synagogues and temples” and we made it that any rich Jewish men were arrested. And, we also made it that 1/5 of the property owned by Jews were “confiscated”. In fact, in the end of all this, 30,000 people were sent to concentration camps. And, well, European countries thought that what we did was very wrong. The prime Minister of London, “Chamberlan “ thought that I was not to be trusted, ( which was absurd) and told Poland that if we attacked they would help them. That is how we sent Europe to the brink of war. ( by persecuting the Jews).

Question: How did you overrun Europe? Answer: Umm, first “on September 1, 1939”, I invaded Poland which made Britain and France declare war but at the time they could not reach Poland in time to help. In the end though, France and Britain decided not to invade. And then , I “targeted the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium”. And when France came to help them, we attacked France which was left on guarded. I also got France to Surrender . That’s how.

Question: How did your air force try to complete the conquest of Western Europe? Answer: Well, “ on August 12, 1940”, I sent my Air Force to Britain “ to soften British defenses.” there, we bombed “ British airfields, factories, and cities.” Londoners even started going into “ basements and subway tunnels for protection.” This bombing lasted for “ more than two months”. But, there Air force took “down” almost 2,000 of our airplanes, so I was forced to stop. This was the first time I was defeated. That is how my Air force tried to complete the conquest of Western Europe.

Question: When having a clash in the East you showed no mercy, so instead of mercy, what did you do? Answer: Well, after I said something about the enemy which was that they were “ already beaten and would never rise again” that’s when “ Nazi commanders” started to “ [show] no mercy”. They gathered “ communist Party leaders and Jews” and they “ lined up” prisoners and either sent them to concentration camps or had them executed.

Question: What happened when you set in motion your war of extermination? Answer: Well, when I set in motion the war, I sent all Jews to “ railroad centers” or had them“ crammed into boxcars and deported to concentration camps in Poland” where they would be sent to work until they passed away. If they didn’t die from work they’d be killed in another way. This other way was a gas chamber disguised as a shower. After they were killed they’d be cremated. That was what happened when I set in motion the war.

Question: How did the tide of the war turn against you in El Alamein and Stelingrad? Answer: Well we were having this two week battle At El Alamein right? And then, “ the British devastated the Army of German Field Marshal Erwin Nomel.” And, even though Nomel pleaded to return to Europe I told him to stay. After that, he went “ westward across the desert” but American troops trapped him. The second thing that happened was when my “ new offensive” got stalled in Stelingrad. During the stall we fought Stalin. Again, I refused to let them come home to Europe. And against my orders, the German General surrendered. We were destroyed after this. So that is how the war was turned against us in El Alamein and Stalingrad.

Question: What did you do on your final days murderous reign? Answer: Well, I moved to the “ Fuhrer bunker” with a bunch of people which was below my office and “ oversaw the final days of war.” I also at one point told my “ generals to attack with armies that had been destroyed long ago”. To continue, when I realized that we lost the war I gave orders to destroy Germany, oh, and I also married my girlfriend Eva Braun on April 29. Afterwards I made my will and testament where I “vented [ my ] hatred for the Jewish people one more time.” Also on the next day my wife and I went into my study with “ pistols and two capsules of cyanide poison” and we killed ourselves.

German Nationalism The vignette, German Nationalism, tells about German Nationalism and German Nationalists. This Vignette told me that German Nationalists thought that Germany should be one country and live together in one nation. And that these people also believed that “ethnic Germans were racially superior” to everybody else. Otto Van Bismark was one of these nationalists and Adolf Hitler came to be one of these Nationalist eventually, himself. This is what the vignette wrote.

Reason one: I think Adolf Hitler is wicked because he terrorized Jewish people because he did not like them and thought they made Germany surrender the war. That definitely makes him wicked. Reason two: Adolf Hitler is also wicked because he invaded and attacked many different places. He attacked them because he wanted to conquer more land. Reason Three: I also think that Adolf Hitler is wicked because of the fact that he killed 11 million people in concentration camps. He killed them by working them to death and by poisoning them.

April 20th 1889 Adolf Hitler was born in Austria Hungary 1919 The Nazi Party is joined by Adolf Hitler. 1936- 1938 Czechoslovakia and Austria is seized by Adolf Hitler. Germany is also Rearmed by Hitler. December 1941 The U.S. enters the war (World War 2) in Europe April 30th 1945 Adolf Hitler kills himself in his bunker with Soviet Troops in