Hitler (episode)

Not to be confused with the character of the same name.

Hitler is a two-part series created by OverSimplified that covers the life of Adolf Hitler before WW2.

Part 1
Adolf Hitler was born Adolphus Hitler in 1889 to Alois Schicklgruber and his wife Klara. His father changed his last name to his stepfather's, Hitler, making Alois a Hitler. Alois married Anna Glasl, but Alois became infatuated with their younger house servant. When Alois' wife died, Alois married their house servant and had several children. Alois' second wife got sick and died. Alois married his cousin, Klara, and had several children whom all of them died while in infancy. So when Klara gave birth to a son named Adolf, Klara spoiled the boy rotten. The family moved several times through out Austria-Hungary and Hitler attended several different schools. Hitler's father Alois was strict and often angry, and take it on the oldest son, until he got enough money and left the house, which meant now, young Adolf would have do the house choices and get severely punished by his enraged father. However Adolf's relationship with his mother was better than that of his father. In his childhood years, Adolf had high grades and was popular with the other children, whom he enjoyed playing war games with them. However, in his older years, Adolf would get into some trouble. He was once caught smoking, organized a raid in a local farm, and tormented his pro-Austrian teacher by displaying symbolic gestures of Pro-German sentiment which all got his father angry. The area Adolf lived in was part of the former German Confederation and many people, including Adolf, consider themselves as German. This enraged Adolf's father, since he was a Austrian public official. Tragedy then struck when Adolf was devastated when his brother, Edmund, died of measles at 6 years old. The death of Edmund affected Adolf and his behavior severely. He spent most of his time reading and drawing and lost interest in school and religion. Adolf's father then died, and Adolf narrowly passed his final semester, but skipped the final exam and decided to drop out of school. Hitler spend his time in watching opera with his friend, August Kubizek who later created a book about Hitler's personal life, and his interests and talents. When he turned 18, he left his mother and journeyed to go to Vienna for Art school and took the entrance exam, but he failed at it. Adolf then returned back home, when his mother died due to sickness, in which Adolf became incredibly devastated. Adolf tried to get a career in Art, but failed at it. Adolf then spent years in homeless shelters, only making little money from drawing postcards. His time in Vienna have certainly payed a role in his Nazi ideology, since in Vienna the belief of Anti-Semitism has at all-time high. Adolf then decided to move to Munich, Germany to avoid military service, where his spent the next couple of years living in the streets and sold postcards. Then in 1914, long tensions in Europe would lead to a major global conflict. Adolf volunteered for the German army. During the conflict, Adolf was a brave solider and was very lucky in several situations. However, his luck ended when he got hit by an artillery shell, and then later as he suffered from a poison attack. He was recovering, only to find out that antiwar sentiment was high. Then, Germany surrendered to the Entente. The Treaty of Versailles gave Germany a massive debt, restricted the size of their army, and reduced Germany in size. Europe's borders changed and several nations were created from Germany's Russia's, Austria's, and the Ottoman Empire's lost territory. All of this had enraged Adolf, and his anger and hatred grew in him as time progressed. He ultimately blamed the Communists and Jews for Germany's humiliation.

Part 2
Due the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler was discharged from the army. He then took a job as an informant for the new Weimar Republic. Hitler was sent to spy on the Communists as fear overtook the new republic. He then attended one of their meanings, only to find out that they wasn't actually Communists but instead Fascists, so Hitler quit his job and joined the party. Hitler's powerful speeches helped rise through rans of the party, and changed the party's name and scheme to what is now known as Nazi. Hitler's ideologies soon began to shape the Nazi Party, in which it promises to restore Germany to greatness by uniting all the German people, repealing the Treaty of Versailles, and making the Aryan race the superior race. Hitler would create the Storm Detachment to protect meetings during speeches and defeat enemy groups. Inspired by Benito Mussolini, Hitler tried to launch a revolution in 1923, but ultimately failed, and was sentenced to 5 years of prison, which was later reduced to 9 months. There, he wrote his book, explaining his ideology that will soon spread throughout Germany. However, they were the biggest political party yet, getting only 2.2% of the vote in the 1928 election. However, this all changed when the stock market crashed, and the economy collapsed. With the new government proving to be ineffective, and people now going to the extreme political spectrum, Hitler took advantage of this. His popularity grew rapidly as Germany's economy worsened. He tried to run for president, but ultimately lost the election to Hindenburg. So he decided to become Chancellor, and did so with the help of Franz von Papen, and pressure from the people as well as political groups. Then in February of 1933 the German Parliament building was set on fire. Although it is suspected that the Nazis started the fire the man who was arrested for starting the fire admitted that he was an alleged Communist. Hitler immediately blamed the Communist for the fire, eventually persuading the president to sign a law that will sent anybody who is a Communist or suspected a Communist into concentration camps. Then the president passed away and Hitler took an advantage of this. He immediately passed several laws making him the dictator of the new regime. He then seized control of the army with the help of Ernst Rohm by killing all of the military officers and their families who opposed Hitler and his ideology. He then began implementing reforms at the expense of human rights. He would kill hundreds of people who are suspected to be traitors to him and Germany, train young children to make pure Aryan children and to follow and remain loyal to his Nazi ideology, and suspended Freedom of Press, Expression, and Public Assembly in Nazi Germany forever. Hitler's aggressive actions would soon lead the nation a major global conflict, known today as WW2.

Transcript
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Trivia

 * The Hitler series is the second series in the OverSimplified channel.
 * Both parts of the Hitler series are the third and fourth videos uploaded to the OverSimplified channel.
 * The Hitler series is the first Oversimplifed content to explain a historical figure in detail.
 * The series is also the first Oversimplified content to be censored in certain countries, specifically in parts of Europe.
 * The first part of the Hitler series is the first OverSimplified content to be uploaded in 2017.