The book Adolf Hitler, written by John Toland is about Hitler’s life as a child, his military years, his political years, his life as chancellor of Germany and his leadership in World War 2. John Toland gathered his research through doctors who treated Hitler, medical records, German citizens who went to his political debates and meetings and People who were friends and relatives of his or people who worked with Hitler. In the book Adolf Hitler it explains his childhood in Northern Austria and how his dream was to become an artist or architect. Hitler decides to live in Vienna to study art and to enroll into a Fine Arts School but does not succeed. He becomes poor since he doesn’t have a Job and could no longer afford his low income apartment, so
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By the time he was recovered Germany had was sued for an armistice with the victorious Allies. Hitler is picked up by certain circles in the German military intelligence and soon he was spewing a line of blaming the Jews for the Versailles treaty and confronting the Communists. In Munich on 1923 he attempts to overthrow the government of the Bavaria. This movement was called the beer hall putsch. The putsch failed and Hitler was sentenced to 5 years of prison. In his cell he decides to write a famous book called Mein Kampf. His book was released a year later. Hitler is involved with women in a string of unhappy love affairs that include the suicide of his niece Geli. Hitler’s party soon becomes the second largest party in the Reichstag. Hitler soon is appointed Chancellor by President Hindenburg and quickly establishes a dictatorship. This is solidified after the Reichstag fire, which Hitler blames the communist for. Then in the “Night of the Long Knives” Hitler has many opponents and rivals killed, including Ernst Rohm the leader of the SA and General Von Schleicher. Prime Minister Lloyd were fascinated with Hitler and were inclined to allow him to rearm, since they look at him as a strategic opponent of the Soviet
By the time he was recovered Germany had was sued for an armistice with the victorious Allies. Hitler is picked up by certain circles in the German military intelligence and soon he was spewing a line of blaming the Jews for the Versailles treaty and confronting the Communists. In Munich on 1923 he attempts to overthrow the government of the Bavaria. This movement was called the beer hall putsch. The putsch failed and Hitler was sentenced to 5 years of prison. In his cell he decides to write a famous book called Mein Kampf. His book was released a year later. Hitler is involved with women in a string of unhappy love affairs that include the suicide of his niece Geli. Hitler’s party soon becomes the second largest party in the Reichstag. Hitler soon is appointed Chancellor by President Hindenburg and quickly establishes a dictatorship. This is solidified after the Reichstag fire, which Hitler blames the communist for. Then in the “Night of the Long Knives” Hitler has many opponents and rivals killed, including Ernst Rohm the leader of the SA and General Von Schleicher. Prime Minister Lloyd were fascinated with Hitler and were inclined to allow him to rearm, since they look at him as a strategic opponent of the Soviet