Hitler was born in the Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn on April 20, 1889, to Klara and Alois Hitler. During his early years, he used to have great disagreements with his father over his choice of career in arts instead of civil service. That was until his father died of natural causes in 1903 when Hitler was only 14 years old.
However, he later fled Vienna to Munich so as to avoid mandatory military service.
Hitler was invited to join the German workers part after the founder of the party was pleased with his oratory abilities and therefore saw that they could use him to their benefit. Hitler’s oratory abilities make him have a great influence on the party (The rise of Adolf Hitler, n.d.).
Hitler realizing that some people within the party were plotting his downfall, resigned from the party. Due to their great influence, he had the party saw the need to retain him and therefore took him back as the leader of the party a term which he had offered the party if he was to become back the party.
Hitler was later accused of treason, a case that was highly publicized. During the court hearing, he used the courtroom to spread his propaganda. Hitler was later found guilty but sentenced to only five years but was paroled after nine months due to the influence which he had on the people and the judges who were sympathetic towards him. He came out of jail to reorganize the party and consolidate his position as the leader of the party.
The great depression led to many political problems in Germany which provided the right opportunity for the Nazi to enter parliament during the preceding election through the use of Hitler’s speech-making abilities and ability to manipulate the masses. The election made the Nazi party be the second party in Germany with 18 percent of the votes and 107 seats in parliament.
Hitler ran for president against Paul von Hindenburg, the incumbent president only to get 36 percent of the votes after a run-off with von Hindenburg garnering 53 percent of the votes.
Kurt von Schleicher, an army officer who had the ambition of getting to power himself schemed the downfall of the chancellor and other members of the government after the chancellor had banned SA and SS all across Germany. Prior to the downfall of the government officials, Schleicher had made an agreement with Hitler seeking his support. Kurt von Schleicher would later be appointed the chancellor by the president.
Schleicher later resigned due to his inability to run the government and the lack of trust of the other members of the cabinet. This paved way for the appointment of Hitler as the Chancellor of the republic, though the President did not like the idea.
Soon after Hitler was announced Chancellor, he persuaded the president to let there be elections so as to ensure the Nazis had an outright majority in parliament which Hitler greatly needed. However, after the election, his party got 44 percent of the vote. To avoid a runoff and establish himself as a dictator and bring an end to the democracy in the country, he orchestrated constitutional change which gave him dictatorial powers(The rise of Adolf Hitler, n.d.).
During the reign of Hitler as a dictator, he put forth orders which led to the exodus of many Germans as they feared for their life(The rise of Adolf Hitler, n.d.).
Hitler’s hatred of the Jews had in fact brought him to power. After getting the ultimate power that Hitler craved for initiated a series of events that led to the large-scale execution of the Jews.