 Hello and welcome to our video summarizing all you need to know about Hitler and Nazi Germany. My name is Barbara and this video is the first part of a four-part video series where we examine Hitler, the man himself, his rise to power, the Nazi Party, as well as the period known as Nazi Germany. So this was a very dark period indeed in German history but one where it was a huge turning point. Now in this first video we'll be examining Hitler's early life and how this early stages of his life influenced his leadership. However, in the second part of this series we'll be examining who the Nazis were. In the third video we'll look at the rise of Hitler to power in a political perspective as well as Nazi Germany. In the fourth and final video in this series we'll be looking at life in Nazi Germany especially as it impacted women, young people and critically the Jews. This video is really useful if you're studying this section of history for your Kursukur exams. So let's get started. Now, Hitler was born in 1889 to middle-class parents, Aloy and Clara. His father was really authoritarian and violent however his mother was overprotective and anxious. In the 1900s he went to secondary school and was reported as quite insolent. In other words he was really naughty and quite disobedient. Even if he did fell in a majority of his classes and didn't do very well the one subject that he did extremely well in was history especially because of the focus on German heroic deeds and events. Hitler was an artist at heart. He loved art and his father who didn't understand this didn't promote this and as a result he clashed with his father over his early ambition to be an artist as well as his father's rejection from a historical perspective of pan-Germanism. This idea that German people are really superior according to history and this idea that Germany in addition to other German-speaking nations like Austria should be combined as one unified nation. In 1903 Hitler's father died and Hitler himself was expelled from school. In 1905 he left school at 16 and spent the next two years painting and essentially being idle. In 1907 Hitler applied to and was rejected by Vienna Academy of Fine Art and this was also a very tragic care for him because his mother died. He was actually really close to his mother. Between 1910 to 1913 Hitler went to Vienna and of course the primary reason why he went there was because he wanted to develop a flourishing career as an artist. Of course he was rejected several times so it wasn't just once. He was rejected several times from the Vienna Academy of Fine Art. So during 1910 to 1913 he essentially made a small living from selling street art and he lived in a poor district where 17% of the people there were Jews. Perhaps we can argue that maybe it was during this time that he really developed this acute hatred for Jews. Indeed Hitler himself recalls remembering a time when he saw a Jew in and to quote his own words, a black caftan and black hair locks. Now after staring at his and what Hitler called his foreign face he asked is this a German and of course this later on did influence his policy during Nazi Germany towards Germans which we'll look at. In 1913 at 24 years old Hitler went to Munich and he tried to avoid military service and of course do remember that 1913 was a year just before the onset of the First World War. In 1914 whilst trying to avoid military service and Hitler did try to hide this later on during his political career Hitler was discovered by Austrian military authorities and nearly charged with prison for evading military service. However he escaped charges he was very charming and he would hide this fact about his early life from the public. In October 1914 the same year he became a soldier and in a battle his regiment lost 70% of its men. In other words 70% of the men that he fought alongside during this war died. By the end of the war he had become a corporal and was awarded the Iron Cross so he did succeed and rise through the ranks. In 1918 which is the end of the First World War and do remember of course that Germany was on the losing side. Hitler was really angry at Germany's decision to surrender and of course Germany's decision to sign the Treaty of Versailles which really effectively punished Germany. Do make sure you check out our other videos and especially the World War I Treaties video where we do talk about how Germany was really severely punished as part of the Treaty of Versailles signature. In 1919 Hitler joined the right wing DAP known as the German Workers' Party. In 1920 this party was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party and of course it later became known simply as the Nazi Party. Hitler was important in helping during up the 25 point program which was essentially a fusion of nationalist ideas, socialist ideas as well as racist ideas that formed the basis in the bedrock of the party's beliefs. In 1920 the SA formed under Ernst Röhm and in 1921 Hitler became the chairman of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. In 1923 inspired by Benito Mussolini's takeover as a dictator in Italy Hitler tried to stage the Munich Putsch as a way to kick out the government and take over Germany. Of course this Putsch was unsuccessful and by 1924 he was imprisoned in Landsberg Castle he was later released in December 1924 so by the end of that year however whilst in prison he wrote or even more accurately he dictated while somebody else wrote for him Mein Kampf which was of course his seminal book which would influence Nazi policy. In 1925 the first volume of Mein Kampf was published once he had been released from prison a second volume was later published in 1926. In 1930 Nazis won significantly in the Reichstag elections in Germany by 1933 Hitler had become Germany's Chancellor and in 1934 Hitler had merged the offices of Chancellor and President into a title that he called himself which was the Führer. By 1939 he had essentially declared war on the European allies starting the Second World War and of course again Germany was on the losing side because by 1945 he was killed in the Second World War as it drew to an end.