THE BIOGRAPHY OF ADOLF HITLER

Early LifeBorn April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria

Feared and disliked his father but devoted to his mother

Visited Vienna and decided to become an artist but was unsuccessful

Military Life

1913 he moved to Munich

1914- Screened for Austrian military service but was declared unfit

WWI - volunteered for German Army

WW I and Politics

Wounded 1916 and gassed in 1918

1919- Politics

Joined the German Workers’ Party

Put in charge of Propaganda

Political Career1921 - Leader of the German Workers’ Party

Attempted to seize power in Munich with his Nazi party

Treason! - sentenced to prison for five years

Wrote Mein Kampf

Hitler’s Post-Prison LifeIncome from party fund and writing articles for nationalist newspapers

Indifferent to clothes

Gave up meat and alcohol

Irregular working schedule

Devoted to his niece Geli

Mistress - Eva Braun

THE HOLOCAUST

The Aryan RaceHitler argued that the Germans (Aryans) were superior to all others

He believed that intermarriage was threatening the Aryan’s superiority

Example of the British Empire

The Jewish race threatened Aryan superiority

Nazi definition of a Jew

Anyone with three Jewish grandparents

Someone with two Jewish grandparents who belonged to the Jewish community

Was married to a Jew or Jewess

Was the offspring of a marriage or extramarital liaison with a Jew

First Measures in GermanyBoycott Jewish businesses

Restrict employment

Restrict school enrollment

Public book burnings

Jewish immigrants stripped of their German citizenship

Euthanasia Program

Nuremberg LawsSeptember 15, 1935

Marriage between Jews and Germans prohibited

Jews prohibited from employing German women under the age of 45

Jews forbidden from displaying the colours or symbols of the Reich

Those of non-German blood are subjects of the state

KristallnachtNovember 9-10, 1938

“Night of Broken Glass”

A series of attacks against Jews in Germany and Austria

Destroyed property

Ransacked homes

Jews beaten to death

30,000 taken to concentration camps

Canadian ResponseDuring the 1930s Canada only accepted 5,000 Jewish refugees

Great Depression

No Refugee Policy

Anti-Semistism

Evian Conference (July 1938)

S.S. St. Louis (June 1939)

Mackenzie King listens to popular opinion

1947- Order in Council #1647