How Did Adolf Hitler Come To Power

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Have you ever wondered how Nazi Germany became one of the higher powers during World War II? This came to be thanks to Adolf Hitler. Known as one of the most tyrannous leaders, Hitler was the dictator for one of the largest armies in history. Adolf Hitler came into power thru politics, became the leader of the Nazis, and made a giant slaughter out of people, which ended up starting World War II. He ended up losing the war, and died near the end of the war. Or did he? Hitler’s time growing up is more difficult than a person would have thought it was. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary (in present-day Austria). He was the fourth out of six children born from parents Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl. His older siblings died during infancy. During his childhood, he moved a few different places such as Passau and Leonding due to the work his father was doing at the time. After the family’s permanent settlement in Leonding, Hitler’s young brother died to the measles in September 1900. The death of his younger sibling seemed to spark the birth of a rebellious side of a young Hitler, …show more content…
Rather than becoming a prisoner of war and being tried for numerous war crimes, Hitler chose to take his own life. His staff chose to burn his body after his death. This to some people did not seem to be the entire truth. Conspiracy theorists around the world tried finding evidence that Hitler was alive after his alleged death. Theorists were able to find evidence in their theories such as: secret agency files and DNA tests of skulls that seemed that the skull was not from Hitler. There is even a book the entails that Hitler had escaped to Argentina with some help from Argentinian forces. Nobody has been able to tell if these conspiracies were true, but the true fact was one of the most tyrannical dictators in history is

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