In the town of Braunau am Inn, near the German Empire border, Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Austria-Hungary (modern-day Austria).Born into Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl, his third wife, he was the fourth of six children. Hitler’s siblings, Ida, Otto, and Gustav, all passed away while they were quite little.Additionally residing in the home were Alois Jr. and Angela , the offspring of Alois’s second marriage.Passau, Germany was the family’s new home when Hitler was three years old.There,he picked up the characteristic lower Bavarian dialect, which he used to use throughout his life, as opposed to Austrian German. Alois retired to Hafeld, close to Lambach, where he farmed, in June 1895 after the family moved back to Austria and lived in Leonding in 1894.
World War I
Hitler willingly joined the Bavarian Army in August 1914, when World War I broke out, when he was a resident of Munich.In 1924, the Bavarian authorities released a study stating that Hitler should have been returned to Austria as an Austrian citizen, and that the reason he was allowed to serve was probably an administrative mistake.First Company of the List Regiment, Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16 He worked as a dispatch runner in France and Belgium throughout the Western Front’s conflict,, spending over half of his time at the regimental headquarters at Fournes-en-Weppes, which is located far behind the front lines.He participated in the First Battle of Ypres in 1914, and for his gallantry, he was awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class.
Hitler referred to his involvement in World War I as “the greatest of all experiences” and received high marks for valor from his superiors.He was stunned by Germany’s surrender in November 1918, and his wartime experiences had strengthened his sense of German patriotism.[81] His dissatisfaction with the way the military effort failed started to influence his philosophy.In The Dolchstoßlegende (stab-in-the-back myth), which held that the German army, “undefeated in the field,” had been “stabbed in the back” on the home front by civilian leaders, Jews, Marxists, and those who signed the armistice that ended the fighting (later dubbed the “November criminals”), was something he shared with other German nationalists.
LEGACY
Some who knew Hitler at the time compared his death to the breaking of a “spell”. By the time of Hitler’s death, public support had evaporated, and few Germans grieved. According to Kershaw, the majority of civilians and military people were too preoccupied with either leaving the fighting or adjusting to the country’s collapse to show any emotion.Nazism “burst like a bubble” in the absence of its leader, according to historian John Toland.been connected to the name of one man — both morally and physically,” he continues. Eastern and Central Europe was left devastated and destitute after the world war caused by Hitler’s political agenda. Stunde Null, the complete collapse of Germany, was experienced.
Suicide
The site of Adolf Hitler’s execution posed a threat to become a shrine for contemporary neo-Nazis and anyone who supported the revolting, racist, and genocide policies of the Nazis, despite the fact that the bunker was underground and the Reich Chancellery building had been destroyed.
The German authorities would certainly not permit any elegant stone memorial, statue, or plaque on the spot after the bunker was eventually filled up. It would seem disrespectful to history, therefore, to ignore the necessity to commemorate and memorialize the location given Hitler’s legacy and the imperative for all future generations to never forget the atrocities committed there. All things considered, it was the scene of the final victory of the Allies over Hitlerism.
