Hitler was born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889. He was the son of a minor customs official and a poor girl. He never completed …show more content…
Having neutralized the Soviet Union with the promise of a partition of Poland after the latter defeat, Hitler attacked Poland in September 1939. The Poles were quickly overpowered, and the British and French, who had declared war on Germany, would do nothing to help. In the spring of 1940 Hitler's force overran Denmark and Norway and a few weeks later defeated the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. The defeat of Britain was averted by the Royal Air Force, which fought off the Germans. Driven by his hatred for communism, Hitler then turned on the Soviet Union. To protect his flank, he first subdued the Balkan Peninsula. The invasion of the USSR in June 1941 quickly carried the German armies to the gates of Moscow. They were pushed back by the Russians in December, just as the U.S... entered the war. Hitler then realized that the war was lost militarily, so he resolved to play for time in the hope that some new weapon or a some kind maneuver might still save the war. As time past and defeat became more certain, Hitler still refused to give up, even feeling like Germany did not deserve to survive because it had not lived up to its mission. Throughout this period, the campaign to destroy world Jewry continued, and endless trains took millions of Jews to extermination camps, which seriously interfered with the war