What happened to Adolf Hitler after WW1?
When the fragile European balance of power exploded a year later into World War 1, Hitler’s German patriotism was ignited, and he decided to join the military. Because of his previous incident with the Austrian military, he returned to Germany, the ally sister country, and volunteered to the German army. After a short training, his unit was sent to the bloody static battlefield in the trenches of the western front, and fought mainly against British forces. He fought bravely, narrowly escaped death several times, and was decorated twice with the Iron Cross medal, but not promoted. He was wounded twice in combat. In his 2nd injury he was temporarily blinded. During his recovery from his 2nd injury, still blind, in a military hospital, he was surprised and shocked with the news that the war ended with a German defeat.
After World War One it is essential to know that the German Kaiser “Wilhelm” had ran away and the country had to go into republic. Hitler was chucked into prison but he escaped a while after his sentence because he could tell the public was struggling to live with the Weimar Republic and that they had to pay a debt of 6,600,000 marcs after the trouble they caused in the war. Hitler was caught a couple of days after escaping and trying to create the Natzi Party. He was chucked back in for 5 years. While in Prison he wrote a book called ‘Mein Kampf’ talking about how the political conditions were in Germany and how he could change it for the ‘Better’. He was released after 9 months in prison and began his personal police: “the S.A.” who were important to Hitler to get to the position he became. The economy was going up and down and Hitler gained more and more power until he eventually became the chancellor of Germany in 1929. since then he used help from his people to manipulate and tort
OKAY – here goes, i’m studying this at the moment: – was temporarily blinded during war and in hospital when given news of the armistice he was very angry much like many other germans who thought they were winning because of propaganda – the he took over the Nazi party, i think in 1920 or around then. – He tried to forcefully take over the government in the Munich Putsch but he was unsuccessful. As a result of this he was put in prison for 5 years but actually only stayed 9 months and during his trial he got the opputunity to show his speaking skills to the public. – whilst in prison he wrote mein kampf (my struggle) outlining his ideas. – after prison he came to conclusion that he must get into power with democratic means rather than force. – Goebbles published lots of propaganda including Rallies and such, and so although many germans did not agree with all the Nazi policies they believed in Hitler and so voted for him. – Although he won most of the seats in parliament in 1932 he sti
