Hitler

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Hitlers Rise to Power
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• Experiences in WWI
• A. Hitler was a soldier in WWI fighting
  on the side of Germany.
• B. He believed that the Treaty of
  Versailles was unfair to Germany.
• 1. Was angry about reparations and
  war guilt clause.
• 2. Believed that Germany had been
  stabbed in the back by Jews and traitors.

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ABOVE Adolf Hitler as a soldier during World
War War, 1914.
ABOVE One of Hitlers oil paintings.
(Historians rate Hitler as a mediocre painter).
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II. Mein Kampf

• A. German word for my struggle, which
  was the title of Hitlers book.
• B. In 1923, Hitler was jailed for The
  Beer Hall Putsch, in which he tried to
  incite a revolution against Germanys weak
  Weimar Republic government.
• C. While in jail, Hitler wrote Mein
  Kampf, in which he blamed Germanys
  struggles on the Treaty of Versailles and
  Jews while using the stab in the back theory.

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III. View of Religion and Race

• A. Hitler did not like the teachings
  of Jesus because religion made God seem
  higher than Hitler.
• B. Hitler felt that creating a nation
  that was free of non-Aryan or inferior
  races was his god given mission.
• C. The goal of the eugenics movement
  was to produce genetically perfect
  children and to discourage race mixing.

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