Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau, Austria. He discovered his artistic vocation as a painter. Hitler twice failed at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna. He twice flunked for the admission, the second time on 8 October 1908. He lived several years painting watercolors for shopkeepers. He painted about 2000 of them. The First World War, declared in 1914, happened on his 25th birthday. He enlisted in the German army to escape poverty. He obtained the rank of corporal. After the war he became president of the National Socialist party and wrote Mein Kampt to establish the doctrine of N...

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After his second failed admission at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna, painter Adolf Hitler suffered from five years of misery. Having been orphaned, he lived on odd jobs as a laborer or painter. During this time, he experienced hunger and frequented shelters for homeless. He even practiced begging. To illustrate this difficult period, we study the horoscope of 12 February 1912, the exact position of Saturn in Leo at the Midheaven. In Adolf Hitler's Horoscope:On February 12, 1912 is positioned at 3° 26' of Gemini. This degree of the day is of Middle force in the House VIII. It is conju...

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Germany declared war on Russia on 1 August 1914, then on France and Belgium on 3 August. On 4 August 1914 the United Kingdom declared war on Germany. Adolf Hitler attended a demonstration in support of mobilization in Munich on 2 August. An enthusiastic crowd demonstrated in favor of the outbreak of war in Germany. It was on this day that Hitler volunteered for the German army. He was given the task of acting as a courier between the officers at the command posts. He was wounded in October 1916 and gassed with mustard gas in October 1918. In Adolf Hitler's Horoscope:On August 2, 1914...

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As a volunteer in the First World War, Hitler served as a courier between officers in command posts. He took part in the Battle of the Somme from the end of September 1916. He was wounded in the thigh on 7 October 1916. He was treated at the hospital in Beelitz, near Berlin. He convalesced in Munich and was posted to the Flanders front. His division was attacked by the British during the night on 13-14 October 1918. Hitler was injured in the eyes by sulfur mustard. On the recommendation of a senior German Jewish officer, Hitler was awarded the Iron Cross First Class for acts for bravery. ...

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After the German defeat in 1918, the mark had collapsed and was worthless. The Ruhr was occupied by the French army. These conditions allowed extremist movements to develop thanks to the difficulties and general discontent. Adopting Mussolini as his model, Hitler dreamed of being able to take power by a coup as Mussolini had succeeded with his "March on Rome". On 8 November 1923 with the support of a field marshal, he launched his SA to storm Munich, the capital of Bavaria. They failed on on 9 November against the police and lost sixteen men. He himself was wounded. Hitler was imprisoned after...

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Adolf Hitler published Mein Kampf seven months after his release from prison. He reaffirms the doctrine of Pangermanism, which stipulates the superiority of the German people and the existence of inferior peoples who must be subject (Gypsies, Slavs, Jews, etc.). It describes France as the inexorable and mortal enemy of the German people. He announced the "Great Reich", the merger with Austria and all regions with German minorities. This German expansion should be in the East at the expense of Russian territories and Central Europe, and in the West at the expense of France. Mein Kampf also is a...

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The financial crash of October 1929 in the United States had dramatic consequences for the economy of the Weimar Republic. Voters made the Nazi party the second largest party in the Reichstag, the German parliament, in the elections of 14 September 1930 with 6.5 million voters and 18.3% of the vote. Then at the parliamentary elections of 31 July 1932, the Nazi party obtained 37.3% of the vote and became the largest party in Germany. Hermann Goring, Hitler's friend, was elected president of the Reichstag. On 30 January 1933, around noon, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of the Weimar Repub...

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On 2 July 1934, the President of the Weimar Republic Hindenburg congratulated Hitler for having eliminated several hundred of his SA militia supporters during the Night of the Long Knives on 30 June. Hindenburg's death on 2 August allowed him to temporarily assume the dual functions of Chancellor and President as provided for in the constitution. The same day the Reichstag deputies passed a law merging the two offices. Hitler was made Chancellor and Fuhrer for good in the plebiscite on 19 August 1934, which he won with a 90% majority. After full powers, he obtained absolute power without even ...

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On 23 March 1933, the Reichstag passed the Full Power Act in favor of Hitler. This law formalized the opening of the first concentration camp in Dachau on 20 March, headed by Himmler. This latter organized the Nazi political police, the Gestapo. On 2 May, Hitler ordered the dissolution of trade unions and the seizure of their assets. On 14 July, the Nazi party became the single party. On 30 January 1934, the autonomy of the Landers was abolished. At least 150,000 people were imprisoned in Dachau without trial between 1933 and 1939, and at least 7,000 died there. To strengthen his alliances, Hi...

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On D-Day, 6 June 1944, the greatest battle of the Second World War began in Normandy, France. At 6.30 a.m. 156,000 men in more than 1,200 warships and more than 4,000 landing craft attacked the Normandy beaches. On this first day of the offensive, the loss of life was less than 3%. In one week, more than one million soldiers broke through the defenses of the Atlantic Wall commanded by German Marshal Rommel. In all, three million men landed in Normandy. The allies had secured air supremacy with 12,000 aircraft against only 169 German fighters. Operation Neptune opened a second front in more of ...

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On 10 July 1940, Hitler began the Battle of Britain because Prime Minister Winston Churchill had a fierce determination against the Third Reich. He managed to galvanize the British people against the aerial destruction caused by Nazi bombers and later by the V1s, the first cruise missiles, and the V2s, the first ballistic missiles launched against Britain. "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat..." Such were Winston Churchill's words of war. Before defeating England, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 against the USSR. On 5 December 1941, the panzer divisions...

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