Tag #Political Biography

What specific societal and political factors enabled Hitler's rise to power, and how did these factors contribute to the Holocaust?

From a young age, Hitler was drawn to Pan-Germanism in Austria, moving to Vienna and then Munich, where World War I, according to Steinbacher, 'solved many of his problems.' His pre-war struggles—a school dropout with failed studies, living off an inheritance and a pension—were thus overshadowed. His subsequent rise within the Nazi party and his imprisonment following the Beer Hall Putsch are well-documented steps in his ascent.