Hitler's Background to 1923

Hitler's Background Discuss Hitler's background to 1923 and how it influenced his rise to power with the NSDAP. Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born man who grew up excelling at sports and arts. He experienced a very distraught time in his life when both of his parents died while he was a young man, his dad when Hitler was 12 and his mother when he was 16. After the death of his father, Adolf fell behind in school, eventually dropping out and moving, hoping he would be able to get into a Fine Arts school he wanted to attend. Right around this time is when his mother died and because of this traumatic event, Hitler decided to drift around from place to place, making it on his own. Making it on his own would have allowed Hitler the ability to become more responsible and mature, allowing him to have that over many of the people that were looking for the same powerful position he was. During one of these drifting times, Hitler lived in a Jewish village. This is where he developed the hatred he had for Jews; he became anti-semitic, anti-Marxist, and anti-democratic when he was surrounded by people with all these interests and beliefs. Hitler tried for a very long time to keep the fact that he thought he was partially Jewish a secret; his grandmother was thought to be pregnant by a Jewish man during the German take-over in his father's village. Later on, Hitler was called back to Austria to be drafted, but during this time he was found unfit for the job. When he became upset over the war and the way it was turning out, he decided to join the Bavarian regiment. When he did, the farthest that he had made it through the chain of command was to corporal and it was stated that he lacked a sense of leadership. The fact that Hitler was told he was unfit to be a leader and he was not allowed to be in the army was ironic because of his later position, and it would be assumed that Hitler would be angered by this statement and he would want to prove this statement to be untrue. Hitler showed many traits and expressed many beliefs that would help him lay down a plan for what he was looking to do with the country of Germany and during the time that he was trying to gain leadership was a time where people really were looking for a plan that was different from the one they were experiencing then. They looked for any change that would allow them the chance to get them back on their feet.