Essay Archive - HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945)
HITLER, Adolf (1889-1945)
The rise of Adolf Hitler to the position of dictator of Germany is the
story of a frenzied ambition that plunged the world into the worst war in
history. Only an army corporal in World War I, Hitler became Germany's
He was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, of German
descent. His father Alois was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna
Schicklgruber. In middle age Alois took the name Hitler from his paternal
grandfather. After two wives had died Alois married his foster daughter,
Klara Poelzl, a Bavarian, 23 years younger than he.....
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