How did Hitler get started in politics?

Answer 1

Hitler became a politician after being a solider in WW1 who was unhappy about how soldiers were treated. He wrote Mein Kampf the story of his struggle/life. Before he became a solider he tried to be an artist in art schools in Vienna, but was refused because he wasn't good enough. His art now sells for hundreds of thousands of pounds. The bad experiences of his younger years caused him to want to make a difference. Perhaps if his past had been kinder to him, he would not have took part in genocide that shocked the world, perhaps WW2 wouldn't have even happened. He was deeply unsatisfied that Germany lost the WW1 and he wanted to get back at Britain. This meant that he needed to have another war to get his revenge.

Answer 2

Hitler originally travelled to Vienna to gain entrance to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, who soundly rejected him several times. He became very poor, and ended up living in a home for poor men for a couple of years. There, he began to read pieces of philosophy by Nietzsche, Hegel, Fichte, Treitschke, and Chamberlain, who helped to shape the ideas of racism and German nationalism that he later used as major points in his political rise. His place in poverty helped him to develop a hard and cold survivalist mentality, as he himself says in Mein Kampf, "I owe it to that period that I grew hard and am still capable of being hard." After witnessing a workers rally in Vienna, Hitler began to take interest in their party - The Social Democrats, specifically how they were able to use rallies, Propaganda, and most importantly fear in order to further their political gains. The mayor at the time, Karl Lueger, was another man Hitler held great respect for and admired his speech skills and use of propaganda. Karl Lueger was also noted to be a great anti-semite, and it is said that Hitler absorbed much of his anti-semitism from studying Lueger. At age 24 he left Vienna and went to Munich in order to avoid mandatory service in the Austrian Military. He was tracked down, and faced with a prison sentence he wrote to the Austrian Consulate apologizing and explaining the hardship that he had faced. The Consulate agreed to drop the charges, and when Hitler failed the necessary medical exam needed to join the army, the matter was closed. However, when The First World War began, Hitler was more than eager to join the German army (on the same side he would have been fighting for in Austria). After years of poverty he enjoyed the war thoroughly, and never complained despite the many life threatening situations he was placed in. In 1916 he was injured however, and sent to light duty in Munich, where he saw and was appalled by the apparent apathy towards the war by the German citizens. He blamed much of this on the Jews, and this added to his anti-semitism. He rejoined the front lines and eventually won an iron cross. However, when the war ended due to the sudden surrender Hitler, along with many other Germans, could not believe that their side had lost. They had been fed press that they were winning, and many of the German Generals maintained even after defeat that if the war had continued, they would have won. This lead to the theory that spread through Germany that the reason for the loss was an internal lack of patriotism, namely among the Communists and the Jews. The Treaty of Versailles did nothing to aid the anger of the people, as it put the blame of the war entirely on the Germans, placed upon them great restrictions on their military, and gave them debts that were impossible to pay off. This served to further embarrass the German people, who sought after a scapegoat. Still inside the military, Hitler began to help to weed out the Marxists in his regimen. Impressed, the German command sent him to a political course at the University of Munich. There, he really gained the attention of his superiors due to his passion and orating ability. He was then given the job of lecturing to German soldiers about the dangers of communism, pacifism, and disobedience. He was well known to go off about the problems internally, specifically the Jews, which the soldiers took to due to their need for someone to blame. In 1919 he was given the assignment of investigating the German Workers' Party, at the time a small local group in Munich, which interested the army due to the name of the party and the military's fight against communism. He attended a meeting, where at one point a member suggested that Bavaria separate from Germany and join with Austria. Hitler rose up and argued against this, at which point the leaders, specifically Anton Dexler, noted Hitler's speaking skill and became determined to have him join the party. Dexler gave Hitler his pamphlet, entitled "Political Awakening," and invited him to come back to another meeting. Hitler read the pamphlet, and was surprised to find and ideology very similar to his own. Another surprise greeted him in his mail, as he got a postcard welcoming him to the party and asking him to come to the next meeting. There, he was joyfully welcomed as a new member, and despite misgivings due to the current unorganized state of the party, Hitler decided to join. He didn't just see an opportunity for a political party to gain power, he saw an opportunity for himself to gain power within that party.

Answer 3

Hitler began his political career in 1919 whilst he was still in the army when he was elected as a soldier's representative to the Münchener Räterepublik (Munich Soviet Republic), a short-lived attempt to create a communist country in the German state of Bavaria, following the German November Revolution. At this time, Hitler's political outlook could be described as socialist, mixed with nationalistic, antisemitic views.

Answer 4

he didnt like the jews cause hes a g