Hitler

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=[|Adolf Hitler]=
 * [|Hitler] was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria on April 20, 1889.
 * Studied Politics in Viena.
 * Moved to Munich, Germany in 1913
 * One year before World War I broke out
 * Enlisted in the German army and served four years in its front line
 * Wounded several times and gassed towards the end of the war
 * Served as an intellegence agent for the military authorities
 * Joined the German Workers party in 1919
 * Later called the Nazi Party
 * The party tried to seize power in Germany by force in 1923( the Beer Hall Putsch
 * Stopped by Munich police and thrown in Jail
 * The party's symbol was the //[|Swastika]//, which was originally a symbol of good fortune thousands of years beforehand
 * Wrote a book called //Mein Kampf// which means "My Struggle" while imprisoned
 * Tried to achieve [|political power] legally after the first failed attempt and became Chancelor of Germany in 1933
 * Attempted to rid Germany from the conditions under the [|Treaty of Versailles]
 * Illegally attempted to take over Eastern European countries such as Austria and Czechoslovakia
 * In 1939, invaded Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, France, and made several attacks in Great Brittain
 * Began the notion of invading the Soviet Union
 * Modivation was to eliminate Communism, of which he associated with "Jewry"
 * Obsessed with [|anti-semitism], which was based around the concern of "purity of blood".
 * Designed series of events and regulations to eliminate the Jewish population around 1941
 * Called //Die Endlösung.// meaning "the Final Solution"; also known as the [|Holocaust]
 * Enforced work camps and concentration camps for the Jews beginning in 1941
 * Men, women, and Children were gassed with hydrogen cyanide or carbon monoxide, shot, beaten, put through scientific tests designed to kill and test people's limmits, and forced to work and live in aweful living conditions that invovled disease, starvation, etc.
 * Over two-thirds of the European Jewish population (roughly six million) died
 * Other [|targets] not included in the six million were the Poles, Czechs, Gypsies, Ukranians, Russians, Serbs, and homosexuals
 * Roughly over eleven thousand people died
 * The World War II ended in 1945
 * The extermination of the Jewish population, as well as others, continued until the very last day
 * Commited suicide on April 30, 1945 and was found in an underground bunker by the Soviet Union

=Parallels to the Novel //Animal Farm//=

Hitler was portrayed as Mr. Frederick and his men

 * The one commandment was changed from "No animal may kill any other animal" to "No animal may kill any other animal without cause"
 * Hitler tried to justify his actions by blaming the Jews for many problems and including the notion of "purity of blood
 * Mr. Frederick attacks Animal farm with several men
 * Hitler forced the Jews and others into their exterminations with the Nazi Party, armed with weapontry and merciless attitudes
 * Mr. Frederick and his men place dynomite at the base of the windmill
 * Hitler ordered distruction of many synagogues in Europe

//**Some** of the Information on Hitler was from Mr. Labarbera's Comparative Religions class lectures on Hitler and the Holocaust.//