What Was Hitler's Legacy

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What would you do if I came up to you and said, “Hail Hitler!”? Hitler was a very atrocious person, but if it weren’t for him, we would have less history to research. In other words, Hitler was an unfavorable person but, he made a big impact on the world. Hitler did many horrible things in his career, he also did dozens of things in his childhood and thus created his legacy. What do you think Hitler’s childhood was like? Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria. Hitler had a father, mother, and two siblings. Hitler’s brother’s name was Edmund and his sister’s name was Paula. Hitler also had three other siblings. Although, two died due to Diphtheria as toddlers and the other one died a few days after birth. His father’s name was Alois and, his mother’s name was Klara. Klara was Alois’s third wife. His father was a tenacious man because, he was a civil servant. But unfortunately, his mother died in 1908 due to cancer. This made Hitler very upset, but, two years before his mother died, he had moved from Austria to Vienna. While in Vienna before he joined the army, he wanted to apply for an art school. He was rejected by the university because, he lacked self discipline, he was quarrelsome, willful, arrogant, and irascible, so, he went to a median school. Because of …show more content…
Hitler will be remembered by paintings people have made of him. He will also be remembered because of books that were written about him. For example, the book, Mein Kampf (my struggle), is one of the books that he will be remembered by. Finally, he will be remembered because, he is an interesting figure to historians. An example of this is, someone found a tunnel underground that could’ve been used to make an atomic bomb. Finally, the most important reason that he’ll be remembered by is the genocide of the Jewish people. Hitler had killed nine million Jews just in the time he was in the Nazis. When Hitler made a legacy, he made it an enormous

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