This seemingly notorious personality was born on April 20, 1889 into an average family, part of the lower-middle class of society (History.com Staff, 2009). …show more content…
In 1919, he moved back to Munich and continued to work for the German army. “As an army political agent, he joined the small German Workers’ Party in Munich” (Lukacs 2017). This was the single crucial event that led him to do all that he did, if there was any such event. According to Hitler and Murphy, this group protected Germany from foreign terrorism by establishing a communist viewpoint for all (393). One year later, Adolf Hitler quit his army job to become the rapidly growing party’s leader (Lukacs 2017). He attracted countless young men with his speeches, all who joined the party. Later renamed the Nazi Party, Hitler came into the leadership of SA, a private militia established by Nazi member Röhm (History.com Staff, 2009). Unlike most other raids he led, the Beer Hall Putsch was an armed revolt against another party and eventually, against the police (Biography.com, 2017). The officers caught him and sent him to prison. Although he did not get away without consequences, Hitler served only nine months of the five years (History.com Staff, 2009). According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, he rather enjoyed his prison time at Landsberg Castle (www.ushmm.org). He also started on his book Mein Kampf, which he finished writing after prison (Lukacs, 2017). By this time, Hitler had developed all the ideas he used during his dictatorship. For example, he thought that Germany would not prosper unless it was under one political party and one Führer (Kershaw 8). In addition, he believed that Germans were being stripped of their purity by Jewish immigrants. He was against the notion that they could become German citizens. Apart from prison, Hitler did not experience too many obstacles in his early middle-ages to become who he