Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler : biography

On the 24th of February in 1920 at the public event in a Beer Hall Hofbrauhaus Hitler announced twenty five planks which became the basis of Nazi’s party political program. Hitler suggested accepting a new name – Nazi Party (National Socialist German Worker’s Party). On the 29th of July by threatening to leave the party he got chairman’s post with unlimited capabilities.

On the 27th of 1923 Adolf Hitler organized the first convention of Nazi’s party in Munich. At that day Germany saw five thousand storm troopers marching on Munich’s streets, but it didn’t know that force would fling it in a terrible war and destroy it practically by the root. As a result of this so-named “Beer Hall Putch” Hitler was sentences to five years of imprisonment and penalty but he spent only nine months in prison where he managed to write a first book of his fundamental work – “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle). Nazi party broke up during Hitler’s imprisonment and he started to reunite it from the beginning. Ernst Rohm helped him a lot – he restored storm troopers’ detachment. By including the leader of Nothern and Northwestern Germany Gregor Strasser in Nazi party Hitler nominally spread party’s influence on the whole Germany.

In 1926 Hitler Jugend was founded and Nazi’s treatment of youth generation started. Incidentally in 1925 Hitler refused of Austrian citizenship and till 1932 he was a person without citizenship. At the parliament elections of 1930 and 1932 Nazi got a big amount of mandates of deputy and became a real political force in Germany. Government tried to remove Hitler from party’s leadership but Hitler managed to avoid a trap and stayed at the helm. In February of 1932 he decided to take part in elections to become Reichpresident of Germany. In order to take part in elections Minister for Internal Affairs appointed him to be an attaché in his representative office in Berlin. It was this fact that automatically gave Hitler German citizenship and possibility to take part in elections.

A powerful propaganda campaign started. Different political technologies were used, particularly Hitler was the first of German politicians who made aviation pre-election trips. On the 13th of March Hitler took the second place after Paul von Hindenburg. The third place was occupied by a communist Thalmann.

At this period Hitler was lonely. His lover Geli Raubal laid hands on herself on the 18th of September in 1929 and since that time he avoided women. Many women wanted to be near the rising star of politics and finally he preferred Eva Braun whom he met in 1929 (she was seventeen at that time). Since 1931 Eva Braun was with Hitler practically all the time. She had her own apartments in Hitler’s headquarters, but she lived almost in full isolation – during Hitler’s departures she didn’t leave the house, read and painted. She became Hitler’s wife a day before their suicide.

On the 30th of January in 1933 president Hindenburg appointed Hitler to be the head of government (the Reichskanzler). On the 27th of February there was a fire in a German parliament Reichstag’s building, and communists were accused of it. Later it was proved that Nazi wholly planned a provocative arson of Reichstag. On the next day after the fire Hitler suggested Hindenburg that he should hold up action of seven articles of German constitutions and therethrough he signed government’s extraordinary authority. The machine of Nazi’s influence on people started to work. Trade unions were liquidated, Jews and Gipsy started to be haunted. In 1935 all Jews were deprived their civil rights and at night in 1938 the Kristallnight began – there were Jewish pogrom all over Germany. It became possible because President Hindenburg died on the 2nd of August in 1934, presidency abolition and transmission of the head of government’s authority to the Reichscanzler made Hitler the head of Germany.