HI109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gambling, Lebensraum, Hitler Youth
Document Summary
Nazi germany appealed the countless germans because it had a saisfying community-driven explanaion of the past and present. Nazi germany was able to idenify weeds in german society and abroad, and had a strategy for their removal. It promised a glorious future ater the humiliaions of world war i. Key point: weimer germany (1918-1933) was born in despair, thrive in the artsy 1920s and collapsed in the ruins of the great depression. Hitler was born april 20th, 1889 in braunau, austria. Father a customs oicial who demands that adolf enter state service. Fails to enter elite austrian academy of fine arts; is drawn to drama and art but out of cash and impoverished. Then, the great war ofers him a way out. Movies to munich and enlists, is highly decorated as dispatch runner, then wounded. Hitler is shatered by german defeat; blames it on poliical let, bolsheviks and jews. Hitler stays in munich, discovered talent for public oraion.
