Period F: Animal Farm - Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hilter was born on April 20th 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria.
Adolf Hitler grew up with a poor record at school and left, before completing his tuition, with an ambition to become an artist.
Between the ages of sixteen and nineteen, Adolf neither worked to earn his keep, nor formally studied, but had gained an interest in politics and history.
During this time he unsuccessfully applied for admission to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1909, he moved to Vienna.
Within a year he was living in homeless shelters and eating at charity soup-kitchens.
He had declined to take regular employment and took occasional menial jobs and sold some of his paintings or advertising posters whenever he could to provide sustenance.
In 1913, he moved to Munich.
In 1914, he volunteered in the German army, and was accepted into the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment.
He fought well enough in the war to get promoted to corporal and received the Iron Cross Second Class, and First Class.

In December of 1918-1919 he worked at a POW camp at Traunstein before returning back to Munich.
Hitler first succeeded in attracting over a hundred people to a meeting held in October at which he delivered his first speech to a large audience.
He succeeded in calming a rowdy audience and presented a twenty-five point programme of ideas which were to be the basis of the party. Which on April 1st 1920 he named it the National Socialist German Workers Party short for Nazi.
Hitler continued to expand his influence in the party and began to form a private group of thugs which he used to quash disorder at party meetings and later to break up rival party's meetings.
In 1921, Hitler gained total control over the Nazi party.
In July of 1921, the members of the Nazi party were discontent with Hitler and he threatened to resign, but they knew they couldnt afford to lose Hitler as a leader.
Hitler then threatened to turn the tables on the members and forced them to accept him as the leader of the party and used dictatorial forcees.
On November 8th 1923 Hitler led an attempt to take over the local Bavarian Government in Munich in an action that became known as the "Beer Hall Putsch."

Mr. Frederick

Parallels to Mr.Frederick and Hitler

Frederick and his men were plotting on attacking Animal Farm and destroy the windmill as Hitler did and went back on his word about the Non-Aggression Pact.
The selling of the Timber could be parallel to the Non-Aggression Pact as well.
Invasion of Animal Farm is parallel to the invasion of the Russia's Western Front.
Frederick destroying the windmill is conveyed as how the Russians felt towards Germany during WW II.