Number the Stars Research Project
Childhood of Adolf Hitler
Question One
- Alois was Adolf's biological father after he was born.
- Alois soon registered Adolf as Johann Georg Hiedler's (his father) son because he couldn't handle the responsibility of taking care of young Adolf along with his four other children.
- Klara was doting Adolf and soon she died of breast cancer and after she died Adolf dropped out of school at 16. A lot of his friends referred to him as "a High School Drop-out".
Hitler as a BABY
Question Two
- Adolf was called and given very different names from different people.
- Some were like Hiedler, Hitler, Hittler, Huttler.
- Adolf was called his "mother's darling" in his mother's eyes.
- But, to his father he was a "horrible mistake" because Alois was stressed from raising five kids so he took his anger out on Adolf by whipping him with a stick or a whip.
- Adolf thought of himself as "a young Otto von Bismarck" because of his fame of stopping and starting wars.
Question Three
- Adolf's dad wanted him to follow in his footsteps.His father was in the Holocaust and was a bad influence on Adolf.
- Adolf ended up following in his father's footsteps by becoming the German Dictator from 1933 to 1945.List the names that where given to Adolf Hitler.
- Hitler particularly persecuted Jews. He ordered them to be moved or even killed in countries he controlled. Hitler set up concentration camps where about 4 million Jews were killed.
Hitler as a Teen
Summary of Video
Citations
Website:
Hoffmann, Peter. "Hitler, Adolf." World Book Student. World Book, 2013. Web. 2 May 2013.
Book:
Haugen, Brenda. Adolf Hitler: Dictator of Nazi Germany. Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point, 2006. Print.
Book:
Giblin, James. The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler. New York: Clarion, 2002. Print.
Book:
Price, Sean. Adolf Hitler. New York: Franklin Watts, 2010. Print.
Video:
"World Book Online Reference Center | Online Reference Book| Online Encyclopedia."World Book. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 May 2013.
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"World Book Online Reference Center | Online Reference Book| Online Encyclopedia."World Book. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 May 2013.
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"World Book Online Reference Center | Online Reference Book| Online Encyclopedia."World Book. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 May 2013.
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"World Book Online Reference Center | Online Reference Book| Online Encyclopedia."World Book. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 May 2013.