Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Secondary Source- Biography


http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/

Look at this webpage about the most hated man in the world, Adolf Hitler. Choose one of the categories. Read the article and write a good summary about what you learned. Your summary should be at least 10 sentences. Use your own words!

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  2. Adolf Hitler sounds more like Adobe Reader

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  3. If Hitler is not the most hated person in the world, who is?

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  4. The Real Report:

    I think any hated people may be very terrible, but they do some how have a kind side before they turned. So I read the two articles which took place when Adolf Hitler was young.
    The first article was about his father's death. In a chilly Saturday, January 3, 1903, Adolf Hitler's father Alois Hitler was 65 years old. He went to his favorite inn for some wine to drink. Unfortunately, he died before the wine was brought to him. The doctor said that he died from internal bleeding. Adolf Hitler was just 13 yeas old at that time, so he and his mother lived on with a little amount of monthly pension plus the death benefits.
    The second article was about his mother's death. Nearly five years later, his mother Klara Hitler had advanced breast cancer. Since noticing this, Adolf began to do all the house chores for her mother, wishing her to get better. He even called the doctor called Edward Bloch to heal his mother. But it didn't work out very well. The cancer kept on ravaging her body until the early hours on January 14, 1907, she quietly pasted away. Poor Adolf lost both his parents, he went to Vienna homeless, and his years in Vienna effects a lot of his thoughts and ideas on politics.
    So maybe the hated people are terrible, but don't forget the background that effects them.

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  5. before i start i want to spell it out for those who say you "hate" Hitler. you don't know him. have you ever seen him? experienced the pain he caused? no. i never said he is a loving father kind man. he has done awful things. but "hate"??? i dislike his doings but that doesn't mean i hate this person. what does hate mean? these are things i find out from the biography that he is just a normal person. well maybe not so normal because of his ways of controlling people and love for power. now picture this. a boy doesn't even know who his grandpa is, has great talent but no one recognized it. all he knows is that his father maybe a jewish rich kid. laughed at for his whole child childhood, beaten up by dad and eventually both parents die. don't connect this with the name Hitler. what do you think? i guess you won't say "this person is awful he deserves it" will you? what i want to say is he is not a perfect person but he had a tough life too. you feel sympathy now a little? then you don't hate him. i don't think he his a great saint since he built all those camps and created the gestapo. he's awful in ways and unbelievably power-thirsty, but sometimes we things in ways we want. feburary 13 1945, the great and awesome US army bombed Dresden, Germany. a rough number says 140000 people were killed. people all went to the carnival and that caused their death. war is terrible and no one is perfect. some people are extremely cruel but i think "hate" is too strong a word. (Emilie this is an really emotional report haha but the facts are all from the biography)

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  6. Well... Emilie, I agree he is hated in most people's eyes, and he is certainly the MOST hated person in the world, but a lot of people are hated too(like Mao or Stalin)(or George W. Bush). OK, the report is not about hated people...

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  7. Adolf Hitler, the most hated person in the world according to Emilie, was born at April 20, 1889, 6:30 p.m, in a small Austrian village. Hitler's father, Alois Schicklgruber, doesn't know for sure who was his own father(Hitler's grandpa). It was remotely possible that the mystery grandfather was Jewish, ironicly. He changed his name to Alois Hitler later in his life, which fortunately avoided the scene of a crowd yelling "Heil Schicklgruber!" (lol)
    Hitler loved to draw when he was small. He once was caught smoking when he was nine. He loved to play war games(hmmm....)in his youth. But later in his life, his father and mother dies in 1903 and 1907. He suddenly turned into a homeless orphan in Vienna. He then joined the army at the beginning of WWI. Germany was defeated.
    Hitler then joins the worker's party, forms the Nazis(booooo), and fell in love with her niece(poor her), who later commited suicide.
    Hitler is gaining fame in this early part of his life.

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  8. Lots of people said that Hitler was cruel. But he also had the human nature. When his mother died, he showed am extremely emotion. His mother died because of breast disease. A book I read said that this was the beginning that Hitler strongly hated Jews.
    After his father died, his family became very poor. His mother went to a pawnshop, hoping that she could get enough money for the family. However, the pawnbroker, a Jew, was very stingy and crafty. He cheated on Hitler’s mother. When Hitler was eighteen, his mother died. Hitler thought that it was the Jewish pawnbroker’s false. He started hating the Jews. Maybe this was that reason why Hitler killed so many Jews. But I think it wasn’t necessary to murdered so many innocents. When Hitler was little, his dream was to be an artist. I think it would be better if he was an artist.

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  9. Every birth of a baby is always a happy thing to a family whether taht family is rich or poor. But they might not know what the child will be like in the future. As you can see, Hitler is one of the children. How will anyone know that this child will be an important person that started world war 2. He even been a shoemaker's assistant before!! How will anyone know what this kid will do after he grows up! If they knew, and if they can stop him right in time, maybe the world will have a big change and the world war 2 will just be an imajination.

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  11. I've finished the chapter about Hitler Fails Art Exam.
    The chapter showed that Hitler is truthfully not a really good student. He dropped from high school in 1905.
    In this period of time, he is trying to be a kind of gentle man, pretending to took canes out and pretending he is very gentle.
    August Kubizek is Hitler's only friend, his dream is to be an musician, and Hitler is willing to be an artist. They'll share their idea to each other, and giving each other power to go.
    At that time, he also really like one girl named Stephenie, but he really didn't have the courage to tell her.
    He also read a lot of German history in this period of time, he is dropped, that's the reason why.
    To chase his dream, he went to Vienna and trying to go into a shcool to study art, he thought that he might get his goal, but he justed failed.
    At last, he just got back and meet his mother home.

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  12. Hiler was a great man before 1938, 1938-1940 he was a tyrant and after 1940 he was a complete lunatic. But in the political system, the relative of Hitler's Germany Weimar Republic period tend to ultra-nationalist conservatism of. In 1936, he and Mussolini led Italy , East Tojo led Japan alliance to form the Axis powers , which eventually led to World War II . German troops under the leadership of his interference in the Spanish Civil War , to support Franco regime, and the annexation of Austria , Czechoslovakia , invaded Poland , France , the Soviet Union and other countries, launched a massive air attack on Britain, but British and U.S. air back to a larger scale retaliation. And at last he commit suicided.

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  13. Hitler's father, Alois Hitler, died in January 3, 1903. After his father died, Hitler's mom received half of her husband's monthly pension, plus death benefits. Adolf received a small amount each month, plus a small inheritance. For convenience, young Hitler went to live at a boys' boarding house in Linz where he was attending the technical high school. This saved him the long daily commute from Leonding. On weekends, he went back home to his mother. But, his mom died in December 21. That let Hitler crashed. That maybe the reason that Hitler didn't like Jews, and that maybe the reason that Hitler killed a lot of Jews.

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  14. I can not say that I "hate" Hitler. It's ture that I dislike him and what he have done, But the word "hate", it's too strong for me to describe what the feeling I have for this man.
    Adolf Hitler was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn, at 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889.
    Adolf's father, whose name was Alois,was the son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber and her unknown mate, which may have been someone from the neighborhood or a poor millworker named Johann Georg Hiedler. It was possible that Adolf's grandfather was a Jewish.
    Adolf has a younger brother named Edmund, and a sister named Paula. Their father dided in a cold winter morning of Saturday, January 3, 1903, because of lung hemorrhage. His son Adolf was only 13 years old. He broke down and cried when he saw his father's body laid out.
    Sadly, his mother was also died on December 21,1907, because of advanced breast cancer.His brother, Edmund, was dead when he was only six years old. Parents and son was all buried in the same cemetery.
    Adolf Hitler had lost the ones he loved for three times. From this point of view, he was a poor man, but this can not change what he have done to the Jewish. He forced them to have the same pain of losing family members as he have. That's too curel.

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  15. Thanks to the stupid Google, I had to typed my report again.(sighed)

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  16. World War I over, German defeated. The Treaty of Versailles was signed by the victorious Allies(The British and French armies). The German was requested to pay a huge sum of reparations, to give up land and the amount of the German soldiers and munitions were all limited. To this reason, Adolf Hitler, who claimed to fight against the Treaty, gained support from his superior and other people.
    At that time, there are many forces in Germany, Hitler's pronouncement of blaming the Jews, the Marxists and the "Novemeber Criminals"(the German politicians who signed the armistice on November 11, 1918) gained him support and advocacy. Hitler was a nice speechifier,(an army report described him as "a born orator.")He could catch audience's attention and cause them to agree with his statement. Adolf Hitler was truly one of the most dangerous man in the world.

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  17. Three weeks after the suicide of his beloved niece, Adolf Hitler met the President of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg, for the first time.
    Hitler pulled himself out of the severe depression he fell into after her death. Twice before he had sunk into the abyss of despair - in 1918, blinded by poison gas, after hearing news of the Germany's defeat ending World War One - and in 1924, in prison after the failed Beer Hall Putsch.
    In October 1931, the former Austrian Corporal was presented to the former Field Marshal. Hitler was a bit unnerved by the old gentleman and rambled on at length trying to impress him.
    October of 1931 marked the beginning of the political intrigue that would destroy the young republic and ultimately make Hitler Fuehrer of Germany.
    Adding to the problem, there were now over a hundred elected Nazis in the Reichstag. They regularly disrupted proceedings with vulgar, rowdy behavior to help undermine democracy in Germany .
    Millions were unemployed, thousands of small businesses had failed, homelessness and starvation were real possibilities for everyone.
    Civilization itself was unraveling in Berlin where people were fighting in the streets, killing each other in the chaos.
    In ever growing numbers they turned to the decisive man, Adolf Hitler, and his promises for a better future.

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  18. I read the one about Hitler’s childhood.
    At age six, AdlofHitler needs to face two challenges. One is the end of the perfect lifestyle and the other is his father’s retired. After his father came back, he taught him strictly.
    One day, the young Hitler accidentally heard a priest said about a symbol: swastika and he attended a school which could swastika all days.
    He did well in the school but not for his weird personality. He stole and smoked in the young age, but he didn’t get any punish.
    In 1903, Hitler’s father died. Since his father died, Hitler head the all the family.

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  19. Many people include me think Hitler was a bad guy. But after I read thr information of "Hilter in World War One, I discover that Hilter still had some differents between his fellow soldiers. He never complained about the food and never talk about women. When Hilter saw his country had some problem, he volunteered to be one of the soilder. After Hilter was wounded in the leg by a shell, he was sent to the hospital in German.Following his recovery, he was sent to Munich. He was appalled at the apathy and anti-war sentiment among German civilians. That leading to an ever-growing hatred of Jews. Hilter asked to go back to the front in order to get away from the apathetic civilians. No matter what Hilter did, he was still a corporal. This fact depressed him. Then, he was sent home to a starving. I think Hilter still had some emotion because when his country had problems, he are willing to help.

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  20. Hitler's Boyhood, In 1895, his father was retire so that he grew up under double supervision, his father and his teacher. His liked to play the game that pretending cowboys and Indians. In 1898, Hitler found his talent of drawing, especially drawing buildings, he could memorize it very well and drew out all of the details of the construction. One day, he found some books with military nature that was belong to hos father, and it become an obsession, so he read it over and over. When he was going to attend the secondary school, he wanted to attend the classical school and become an artist, but his father persisted to send him into the technical high school and wanted hime to follow his footsteps. At the same time that German nationalism appeared, they lived close to the German border, so he thought he was a German like many Austrians.
    In January 1903 when Hitler was 13, his father died suddenly of a lung hemorrhage.

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  22. Hitler really didn't study Citizenship Education well!
    In his book "MeinKampf", he viewpoints were so narrow-mined. He thought that Ayran--what he called as the Germanic man, the master race which is the supreme form of human. It seemed that Ayran was totally "super" and the Jews were meant to be the lower race.
    Actually the book wasn't really written by himself. It was dictated by Hitler and wrote by a man called Rudolph Hess in 1923-24.
    This book contained some unreasonable ideas that would seemed as crazy in modern day such as "subjugated peoples actually benefit by being conquered because they come in contact with and learn from the superior Aryans""they benefit only as long as the Aryan remains the absolute master and doesn't mingle or inter-marry with inferior conquered peoples". I could hardly believed that so may people read it and believed it in that time.

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  23. he article that I read was”Adolf Hitler is born”. And after I read that I think that his born was disaster and that’s according to Emilie” Adolf Hitler is the most hated person in the world”.
    But I don’t really think so.
    This article was u\talking about that he was born in a morning and the place that he born was a small village and it also talked many things happened when he was a little child. But thing passage that most made me mind it is that In May of 1895 at age six, young Adolf Hitler entered first grade in the public school in the village of Fischlham near Linz, Austria. After I saw it I think “ that was an important time in history!”

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  25.   April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born, he was born in German Bavaria. Whan he was just a little boy, he had many aspirations, finally he dicided to be a artistis even though his father was against. January 3, 1903, Hitler's father was died, but Hitler still kept his artistis's dream until he was 19 because it was not successful and his mother died in December 21, 1908.
      Hilter became homeless since 1903 to 1909, he was very despire during this time and gradually despised and hated Jews. Whan World War I, Adolf Hitler found a new home fighting for the German Fatherland and enlist hislife in military service, then he began pursued politis of German.In 1920, Nazi Party was formed.
      Most people believed Hilter as a very awful and hateful man because when he was runs for president, he banned all political parties except the Nazis, dissolve all the trade union organizations, massive searches, persecute and massacre of communists, Jews and all anti-fascists.
      After I konw about Hitler, I think he can be both successful and hateful man, even though he was hated by so many people, his great tasks still can't be ignorned, but he had done so many bad things esp. to Jews, more than 6 millon Jews were killed because of him, I'm very hope that he had not exist at all!

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  28. Adolf Hitler was a ordinary little boy. His childhood involved alot about staying outdoors and playing cowboy games . He soon discovered his potential on drawing, especially on sketching buildings. Good grades he acquire in school without much effort also showed his clever mind. His dream was to become a artist, while his father is willing him to follow his step and therefore send him to a technical high school, but not a classical school Hitler wished to attend. An argument soon began between son and dad, Hitler also did bad on subjects so he can proof to his dad that becoming an artist is a more suitable choice for young Hitler. But it didnt make any changes. Before long, Hitlers dad died in lung hemorrhage.

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  29. The forming of the Nazi party held a significant meaning in Adolf Hitler's life.
    In 1919, he joined the German Worker's Party at age 30, yet at that time, there were only 7 men in that comittee(including Hitler). So, to attract new members into this committee, they tried sending invitations, inviting people to their speeches, but it wasn't effective. Then they placed an ad on a newspaper against the Jews, moving their meeting to a beer cellar, and about a hundred people showed up on October 16, 1919. In that meeting, Hitler had his first, yet very successful speech in his political carreer, and also raised 300 marks(German Money). The money was used in more advertisements, raising more public alertness while Hitler stated against the Treaty of Versallies and the Jews, thus also blaming the Jews for Germany's problems.
    On February 24, 1920, Hitler even had a speech successfully persuading two thousand people(with a large number of Communists) about the details of the political platform of the German Workers Party with a dramatic end of approval from the disorderly crowd.
    In 1920, Hitler realized the need of a recogniveable symbol for the party, so he chose the famous swastika, placed inside a white circle on a red background. Also, Adolf Hitler changed the name of the German Workers Party to the National Socialist German Workers' Party---in short, the Nazi.

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  30. In January 1907 Edward Bloch, a Jewish doctor, found out that Hitler's mother had advanced breast cancer. He said she needed immediate surgery. A fews day later, the surgery took place, and one of her breast was removed, but the surgery was so late that the cancer continued hurting her body. Due to Hitler's dream of becoming a great artist, he took the Academy's entrance exam. He failed. He hated the doctor because he recommended a painful, expensive treatment to save his mother's life. During his mom's illness, he do household chores such as cooking and washing the floor. Unfortunately, Hitler's mother died on December 21,1907. I think this might be the beginning of his hatred of Jews.

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  31. Hitler maybe was a crazy leader of starting wars. But he did showed his talent when young, he was considered very clever at school. He was filled with ambition, too. Hitler found himself interested in sketching buildings. He would try to correct his mistakes after being reminded. He was also really active, he enjoyed playing with other boys outside. Whenever he wanted to know something, he would spare no efforts to achieve it. Hitler had great courage to face things directly,instead of escaping it. He had neat thinking and good observation. That was an important part in his person.

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  32. After reading the article "Hitler's bothood" I've change some of the viewpoint that maybe he wasn't entirely cruel.Young Hitler did well in the monastery school and also took part in the boys' choir!After The small Hitler had dreamed of be the priest one day. But his father was not encouraged him in what he want to do even he had the good grades in the school. So,he began to know the democracy...It is pity that Hitler didn't followed his dream,if he did, then the later period of his life wouldn't had happened such a major tragedy.

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  33. On January 14, 1907, the family doctor, Edward Bloch, who was Jewish, examined Hitler's mother and found she had advanced breast cancer. Then a few days later, she was operated on, but the operation was too late, her illness became worse.
    At that time, eighteen-year-old Adolf wanted to be a great artist, so he went to Vienna to attend the entrance exam, he failed, but he didn't tell his mother.
    Hitler was a obedient boy, when his mother was sick, he constant taking care of her and even helped out with chores. Hitler's mother didn't recovered, her illness became worse and worse, and in the early hours of December 21, she died quietly.
    Parents' death was a strong strike to Hitler, and the miserble days in Vienna became the time when he formulated many of his ideas on politics and race which would have immense consequences in the future.

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  34. I was very astonished of what he had done.
    Hitler went to many important places to give speeches, attending meetings etc. Hitler gave them encouragement and promises. But he didn't give them details. he captured his people by using simple phrases. He promised to gave work to the unemployed, stamp out corruption, keep the Marxism, and treat bad to the Jews. He put his message into the minds of the Germans.
    On September 14, 1930, the Nazis received 6,371,000 votes. which is very astonishing. Everyone int the world were very curios. Wasn't Germany responsible for the First World War?
    Nazi celebrated their electoral victory smashing the Jewish window shops and may building.

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  35. Hitler became more and more powerful, crazy and did things without humanlity. Hitler distroyed the democracy in Germany, used any divice to be the dictator he wanted. At the begining, the Nazis using the state of emergency decree to replace the Nazi Reich commissioners instead, all the political enemies were arrest, they used Old army barracks and abandoned factories to be the prisons, once inside, prisons were treated harsh like armys and sometimes tortured to death, that was the very begining of the Nazis' concentration camp system. The whole society became a kind of cheering party to what Hitler said. The Nazis' behavior became crazy, uncontrol and without sense for what they did. Hitler's hatred of the Jews began with the simple boycott in April, 1, 1933, years later, became the greatest tragedy in all of human history.

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  36. Hitler is not a bad guy like we are thought. He was just a normal bay like us when he was a child. Maybe his life is harder than us, because he lost his father and mother when he was young. And he also failed his art exam, so he gave up the want of to be an artist. He might be a little unfortunately, but I think eh found a way to solve the problem. That's way I think he was not completely a bad guy. He worked hard in the army, after a lot of things, he established the Nazi, the one which chance the life of over million of people. The thing that I think it is strange is that why he was put in a jail? He was such a leader of Nazi, so why could someone punish him? He was both a successful man and an evil man. He led Germany successfully, but the way he used was wrong, he killed too many people. Finally, he failed, and killed himself. That was the end of his life.

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  37. At 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889, he was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau.When Hilter was young,he was really smart and did well in the monastery school.Hilter became homeless after he lost his mother and his father in accident.His brother also died in a kind of horrible disease.He lost his beloved family,so he wanted himself to be more stronger than others.He was good at art and singing,even dreamed about to be an artist.However,it didn't came true.1903 to 1909,the time he became homeless,he was despised and hated Jews.But I think that the start point that he hated Jews was because of his mother's illness.He hated the Jewish doctor who did such a painful surgery and lead his mother to death.Hilter was a man who loved his family,treated his family well.During the time his mother was sick,he even help and did a lot of house work.It's hard for me to think this Hilter and that grown up Hilter as one person.It was because many people thought Hilter was a cold-blooded person.But however,I think that's one reason why Hilter hated the jews so much.

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  38. Hitler was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria at 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889. He was also a normal child like us when he was little. He liked to play outside and played cowboy games, and he was also interested in painting. He was not only a talented child but also a careful son who always took care of his parents. Unfortuneately, he lost his mother and father when he was young, and he also got terrible grades in art exam, it maked him give up about his dream which is to be a artist. After years, he became a soldier and worked hard in a army. In world war, he brought the German people to attack their enimies. But he killed lots of poor people and became a evil man in my heart.

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