Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889, His parents were Alois Schicklegruber and Klara Poelzl. As a young boy, Hitler was in love with art and wanted to pursue a career into this field, his father, on the other hand, wanted him to become a civil servant like himself. Hitler's life fell apart when his mom, who he adored, died of cancer leaving him alone. "After spending four years in the Realschule in Linz, he left school at the age of sixteen with dreams of becoming a painter. In October 1907, the provincial, middle-class boy left home for Vienna, where he was to remain until 1913 leading a bohemian, vagabond existence. Embittered at his rejection by the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts, he was to spend "five years of misery and woe" in Vienna as he later recalled, adopting a view of life which changed very little in the ensuing years, shaped as it was by a pathological hatred of Jews and Marxists, liberalism and the cosmopolitan Habsburg monarchy(Jewish Virtual Library)." This "five years of misery and woe" led young Adolf to believe in many anti-sematic traditions that leaders such as Lanz von Liebenfels, who is said to be a crack pot racial theorist, and Georg von Schoenerer led to his "Eternal Jew" the symbol and cause of all chaos, corruption and destruction in culture, politics and the economy. Hitler's newfound German nationalism led him to join the German army before WWI. He got the iron cross for his efforts at being a messenger during the war when he was nearly killed and almost blinded him. After the War his rise to power really begins, he needs a job so he goes to the military and they give him a job as a spy. He is sent to spy on the German Workers Party and this is when he gets a real taste of power. Its here he founds out, he was a true leader, its also here that he is sent to jail. After this he is elected to be the leader of the National Socialist party and it wasn't long until he was elected as Chancellor of Germany in 1933, with the death of Von Hindenburg he became Fuhrer of Germany. The "Night of the Long Knives" occurred where Hitler had everybody who opposed the Nazi party and him. WWII begin after Hitler invaded Poland on September 1,1939 and he quickly blitzkrieg across Europe and even most of the Soviet Union. In 1941, Hitler planed Operation Barbarossa, this is when he halted attacks on Great Britain and turned his attention toward the Soviet Union. While hiding in his bunker in Berlin, Adolf saw that the end was inevitable and tried one last attack in Belgium, which became now as the Battle of the Bulge unsuccessful and fearful of what the red army would do to him, Hitler killed himself along with his wife( Eva Braun) and their dog( Blondie).