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Document Summary
Der fuhrer: adolph hitler: austrian, not german, failed at art school, hitler was outraged by the versailles treaty in 1918. In 1923, hitler and the nazi party attempted to seize control of the government with the beer hall putsch . It failed, and he was sentenced into 5 years of prison for treason: there, he wrote his political autobiography, mein kampf. In hitler"s view: all groups, races, or peoples carry within them traits that are immutably transmitted from one generation to the next. For better or for worse, no individual can overcome the innate qualities of race. : hitler believed that all members of a race or group shared a collective instinct for survival, not individual. Abhorrence of intermingling: anytime 2 races intermingle, the lower race will pollute the higher race, and in turn this process over time threatens to distinguish the entire human race.
