Hitlers youth Hitlers parents Alois Schicklgruber and Klara

Hitler’s youth • Hitler’s parents – Alois Schicklgruber and Klara Pölzl – uncle and niece officially. • Birth of Adolf – April 20, 1889. • Education. • Death of his father. • Hitler in Vienna. • Hitler and racial theories of Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stuart Chamberlain.

Wartime years • “Too weak for army” in February 1914. • Hitler in Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment. • “The greatest and most unforgettable time of earthly existence”. • Iron Cross of the Second Class – December 1914. • Regimental certificate for bravery – May 1918. • Iron Cross of the First Class – August 4, 1918. • Under gas attack – October 1918.

Hitler and foundation of Nationalsozialistische Deutche Arbeiterpartei • Foundation of Deutche Arbeiterpartei (German Workers’ Party) by Anton Drexler and Karl Harrer – January 1919. • Hitler’s first speech – September 12, 1919. • Membership card #555. • Hitler in the executive committee. • Change of name of party to National Socialist German Workers’ Party.

The “Beer Hall putsch” • Foundation of SA – Sturmabteilung (Storm troop) – August 3, 1921. • Change of membership number to 007. • Preparing for the uprising. • Communist uprising in Hamburg and Nazi coup d’etat in Munich – coincidence or planned matter. • Failure of Putsch. • Hitler in Prison.

Rebirth of National-Socialists as a Political Force • Held’s (Prime Minister of Bavaria) decision to lift a ban on National socialists. • The public indifference in National Socialists. • The Strasser brothers and revival of party. • Nazis on the second place in September 14, 1930 elections – 107 places in parliament.