Adolf Hitler

  In the half past six on the evening of April , 1889, an innocent child was born in the small town of Braunau Am Inn, Austria. The name of the child was Adolf Hitler. He was the son of a Customs official Alois Hitler, and his third wife Klara. Initially Alois had taken his mother's name, Schicklgruber, but changed it in 1876 and became Hiedler, or Hitler. It is hard to imagine tens of thousands of Germans shouting Heil Schicklgruber! instead of Heil Hitler! Adolf Hitler later confided to his only childhood friend, August Kubizek,that the name Schicklgruber seemed to him so uncouth, so boorish, apart from being so clumsy and unpractical. But 'Hitler' sounded rich and was easy to remember.

From the first day that Hitler seized power, January 30, 1933, he knew that only sudden death awaited him if he failed to restore pride and empire to post Versailles Germany. 12 years and three months later History saw Hitler's prophecy fulfilled.


Adolf Hitler announced at many occasions the "annihilation of the Jews" living in the territory under his control. In his mind, murdering millions of Jews could only be accomplished under the confusion of war from the beginning he was planning a war that would engulf Europe. World War 2 caused the greatest loss of life and material destruction of any war in history, killing twenty-five million military personnel and thirty million civilians.Approximately 11 million people were killed because of Hitler's genocide policy and his Nazi Regime led to the annihilation of more than six million Jews during the Holocaust.