Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Austria. He was the fourth child to be born. Adolfs father was very strict and died when Adolf was only thirteen years old. His mother died of breast cancer when he was seventeen. Hitler wanted to be an artist. He loved to paint and draw, so he applied to art school, but couldn't get in. He waited a year and applied again. He never got into art school. When World War II began, he wanted to serve as a German soldier. He was the victim of an explosion that caused short-term hearing loss. Adolf was sent for surgery and when he woke up, the first thing he heard was that Germany had surrendered. Hitler became a member of the Nazi group in 1923. He led a coup to overthrow the government. Because of this, he served a sentence of nine months over five years. While Hitler was in prison, he wrote a book about how he thinks things should be (My Struggle). He was determined to build the Nazi Party to legally take over government. He gave strong, powerful speeches and led people to believe that what he was doing was the right thing to do. In January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. It slowly began to conquer the world. Adolf killed many people on his way to the top. This later caused the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a great destruction that resulted in extreme loss of life, mostly due to fires. Hitler and the Nazis separated people based on race and religion, then known as the "Undesirables". Undesirables were people Hitler thought were worthless. All Jews were considered undesirable. During the Holocaust, the world condemned the murder of approximately six million Jews. Nobody cared about the Jews, so they were sent to die in concentration camps....... middle of paper... the cause of the war, it was more like a subplot of the war. World War II was a difficult time for America. When husbands, fathers, and brothers were drafted into the army, women had to take the place of men. The woman did things like welding, farming and working outside the home. Many Americans made do with less, so American troops got more. All of these topics come together to show why we learn about the Holocaust. We learn this simply because we don't want it all to happen again. The horrible things that have happened will happen again if peace and tolerance are not taught. It's good to learn that humans are capable of doing such evil deeds, so they won't happen again. If we didn't study it, people wouldn't know or remember the past and might repeat it. We learn from mistakes, and that is why we learn about the Holocaust. We want to minimize the errors that have occurred once and for all.