Adolf Hitler. This name is a symbol of bloody terror, symbol of wars and millions of casualties as a result. Everybody in the world knows the name of the cruelest dictator in history. Adolf Hitler. We know the price of his politics and his attitude to people.
Historians always discuss one question about this unusual personality. How did it happen that such evil creature absolutely legally received political power in one of the most civilized European countries? Let us try to find out how charisma and leadership helped Hitler to become a Chancellor and Fuhrer.
First of all we have to pay attention to his speaking skills that made him so popular. We should admit that he was excellent orator. When you listen to his speeches you feel he is a strong and self-confident personality, you feel strong energy of his rude words. His speaking skills are amazing. He knew that he…...
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Rosenbaum, Ron 1999. Explaining Hitler: The Search of the Origins of His Evil Perennial
Marrus, Micheal R. 1989.The Holocaust of History. New York: A Meridian Book.
What could the Allied nations have done to prevent the Holocaust or to stop it once it began?
There has been much discussion regarding what the Allied nations could have done to prevent the Holocaust or to stop it once it began. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, one theory has included the bombing of the largest gas chambers of the Nazi regime -- Auschwitz -- as one of the possible efforts that would've saved lives. Clearly, Allied bombings had a significant impact on the eventual winning of World War II, but some theorize that had the gas chambers been actually bombed, the more than million people who lost their lives in these execution rooms may have been saved.
A fleet of American bombers dropped more than one thousand bombs on the Auschwitz factory areas, on August 20, 1944. A few weeks later, on September 13th, the U.S. bombers returned and hit…...
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Hitler was also politically astute. He understood that "power lay with the masses." (Bullock 55) Therefore, if he was to obtain the allegiance of the people he would have to do so through the subtle use of propaganda. "The Key, Hitler became convinced, lay in propaganda." (Bullock 55) He therefore devoted a great deal of thought and time into developing his understanding of propaganda. This can be seen in his book Mein Kampf, where an entire chapter is devoted to war propaganda.
He also played on a number of themes to advance his aims. One of these was the illusion that he was a man of the people. This served to convince the general public that he had the same experiences, desires and goals as they had. As Bullock and others point out, he had in reality very little concern or fellow-feeling for the ordinary German citizen (Bullock 69/70). He…...
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Bullock a. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. London: Penguin.1952.
Apparently, Hitler had undergone major transformations subsequent to being hospitalized there and after having been treated by a psychiatrist. (Coolidge, Davis, Segal)
One of the factors which had influenced the experts into questioning Hitler's mental status has been that Hitler had troubles in making decisions.
During his last days, Hitler had expressed excessive paranoia by fearing that everyone had been lying to him and that there was a conspiracy created in order for his own men to deliver him into the hands of Germany's enemies. His restlessness was increased by the assassination attempt that had taken place not long before.
Psychologists that had analyzed Adolf Hitler had found several reasons for his supposed madness. Apart from considering his dead brother, his sexual deviances, his hospitalization in Pasewalk, some believe that Hitler had also been a creation of the German society of the time.
Reasons like alcohol or drug use, and other deviant tendencies…...
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Coolidge, Frederick, Davis, Felicia, Segal, Daniel. (2007) Individual Differences Research. Understanding Madmen: A DSM-IV Assessment of Adolf Hitler. Retrieved December 9, 2008, at http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.htm
It appears that while the opinion of Hitler became worse during his Chancellorship election, it became a foregone conclusion after the rise of the Nazi party itself. Many nations believed at the time, that the Nazi's were a "phase" for the German epublic, which would eventually repudiate its xenophobic policies and demagogue leadership of Hitler.
Understanding of what it meant in large picture
In the larger picture the rise of Hitler as the German Chancellor was extremely important to the context of world history within the 20th century. Once Hitler became Chancellor he was able to foil all attempts for a party to gain a majority within the Legislature. As a result, the President was forced to dissolve the eichstag for elections and campaigning. During the interim, the eichstag was burned to the ground and the blame placed upon a Dutch communist who was inside the building. These events led to…...
Adolf Hitler vs. Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin are two individuals that most people think about when they come across terms like genocide, warfare, and absurd cruelty. These people demonstrated that it is actually possible for a human being in the twentieth century to influence millions of others into adopting hostile attitudes in regard to morality. Although the two fought against each-other and influenced many others in doing so, they are not as different as one might be inclined to consider that they are. Their character and their obsession with power made it possible for both of them to enter the pages of history as the cruelest individuals of all times.
Hitler and Stalin were raised in critical conditions and they witnessed events that influenced them in employing extremist attitudes. Stalin emerged during the Russian Revolution while Hitler came into the public's attention as he started to express lack of…...
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Cooley, Thomas, "The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition," Pennsylvania State University, 2010
Thatcher, Ian, "Nazism and Stalinism: Ian Thatcher Argues That Surface Similarities between the Regimes of Hitler and Stalin Disguise Deep-Seated Differences,"History Review
Hitler Created Anti-Semitic Laws
Adolf Hitler is often viewed as the poster-child of anti-Semitism. ut to understand why this is so we should look at why Hitler created so many anti-Semitic laws. I believe that Hitler created many anti-Semitic laws because, as Paul Johnson notes, anti-Semitism 'was to him a complete explanation of the world'.
In other words, Hitler made laws that expressed his concept of the world. y the 1920s, Europe, Russia and the United States had seen the spread of the Protocols of Zion. These Protocols were said to be the blueprint of the Jewish plot to take control of the world. Anti-Semitism in Europe, Russia, and the United States was a natural reaction to the Protocols. So it is no surprise to find that the Nazis under Hitler made anti-Semitic laws 'the centre and end of their programme (though they varied the emphasis according to their audience).'
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'The Great War.' PBS. 2004. Web. 20 Dec 2011
Haffner, Sebastian. The Meaning of Hitler. NY: Macmillan, 2004.
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Johnson, Paul. A History of the Jews. NY: Harper and Row, 1988.
The Treaty was the agreement in Europe after World War I. It stipulated that Germany could not produce military machinery, so by ignoring it, Hitler created a massive invasion force by the time he was ready to invade Poland, and Britain and France essentially ignored the process, allowing it to continue (Kreis, 2004). Hitler's real aim was not to conquer France and England, he wanted ussia. He refused any alliances that ussia offered before the war, and he thought when France surrendered, England would soon follow and that he could concentrate all his manpower and focus on ussia (Weinberg, 1996, p. 158-160).
The war really began in March 1938, when Hitler forced Austria to join Germany, and then he went after the German-speaking areas of Czechoslovakia. Historian Kreis continues, "The area also contained key industries and was vital to the protection of Czechoslovakia. Without this area heavily fortified Czechoslovakia could…...
Murphy, D.M., & White, J.F. (2007). Propaganda: Can a word decide a war? Parameters, 37(3), 15+.
Tooze, A. (2006, November). Hitler's gamble? Did Hitler intend to provoke a general war over Poland in September 1939 or was it a serious miscalculation? History Today, 56, 22+.
His rage was motivated by something else, something more personal; indeed, from the point-of-view of Adolf Hitler, the Second World War was merely an extension of "Mein Kampf" (my struggle). No sane leader would have dared to take on the leader of the free world at that point in time. By declaring war on the United States of America at that point in the war, Hitler was effectively taking on the Soviet Union, the British Empire, and the United States all at once. The United States was the world's greatest industrial and financial power, the Brits claimed the world's largest empire at the time, and the Soviet Union boasted the world's largest army. There was no way Germany was prepared to fight for this war, as they were not even capable of providing their soldiers with adequate clothing and supplies against the harsh ussian climate.
It is clear that Hitler…...
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Adolf Hitler
Introduction
Adolf Hitler was born in Austria on April 20, 1889. From an early age he wanted to be an artist, though he also considered entering the clerical life and becoming a priest (Shirer). His father was a practical man and wanted to see his son enter into government service and eke out a decent living for himself. His father had not had much luck with work, having tried farming and various other activities, and had been required to keep moving his family from place to place. Hitler did not have a practical vision, however. He was moved by a romantic vision of life and, deciding against the applying to the clergy, he insisted on becoming an artist, much to his father’s displeasure. Hitler relied upon his mother for moral support and when his father died in 1903, Hitler’s mother permitted him to leave school and pursue training as an…...
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But there cannot be any doubt that in harnessing that energy to extraordinary projects and horrible crimes, Hitler placed his stamp on that war and on the twentieth century. (einberg)
He captures it succinctly in that we cannot think of war, rulers, and mass murder without attaching those thoughts to Adolf Hitler. A smart man with a deadly mission means trouble and Hitler shows us why. He was able to catch waves of people at a time when they needed something to believe in and convince them that he was their answer. He was, in one word, evil. He used people's fear against them; he killed indiscriminately; he believed that he was right. These are just a few traits that make Hitler stand out as one of the most evil and detestable individuals to walk the earth.
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Bessel, Richard and Kershaw, Ian. "Hitler and the Germans: Life in the Third Reich." EBSCO History Resource Database. Site Accessed March 28, 2008. http://search.epnet.com
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The way in which Hitler took over Germany was very open, but yet it was not thwarted by others in the political realm. By the time they realized what was taking place, it was already done.
Hindenburg was still president of Germany at that time, but right before he died a law was passed that the presidency would be abolished with his death, and all power over the government and the country would go to the chancellor (Hitler) (Benderwky, 62). This was a very insidious way to get the remaining power that he was still lacking, and it provided him with completely political and legal control over Germany and its people. In 1934, Hitler told a reporter how people had laughed at him 15 years prior, when he stated that he would become ruler of Germany (McNab, 70). At that time, he said he would remain in power, and his…...
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Aigner, Dietrich. Hitler's ultimate aims -- A programme of world dominion? In Koch, H.W. Aspects of the Third Reich. London: MacMillan. 1985. Print.
Bendersky, Joseph W. A History of Nazi Germany: 1919 -- 1945. NY: Rowman & Littlefield. 2000. Print.
The latter was an important member of this party, and also a staunch anti-Semite. The association with Eckart therefore further solidified Hitler's prejudice against Jews and other non-Aryan races (Fuchs 12)
Like many Germans, Hitler was deeply shocked by Germany's surrender. At the time, he was lying in a military hospital, recovering from a mustard gas attack. Recalling the anti-Semitic and political pamphlets he read as a teenager, Hitler came to believe that Jewish politicians had signed the armistice, thereby surrendering Germany at the point of victory (Schwaab 46).
The German surrender thus served as a catalyst for Hitler's entry into politics
Hitler believed that these Jewish politicians were preparing the way for a communist takeover of the German nation.
Shortly after meeting Eckart, Hitler produced his first anti-Semitic writing, advocating for a solution to the growing German problem. Hitler's solution involved "rational anti-Semitism." He vowed not to use traditional tactics previously employed…...
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Fuchs, Thomas. A Concise Biography of Adolf Hitler. Boston: Berkly, 2000
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Hitler's Personality And Rise To Power
Adolph Hitler's rise to power over the course of the 1920s and 30s was due to a confluence of political and personal factors which served to make Hitler the ideal person to take control of Germany's failing fortunes. In many ways one may view Hitler's frightening success as a case of being the right person, in the right place, at the right time, because his peculiar personality was an almost perfect match for the disillusioned Germans suffering from the ignominy and economic disaster which followed their defeat in the first orld ar. Numerous researchers have attempted to diagnose Hitler's personality in psychological or psychiatric terms, and while these studies some useful insights, this study will focus more on Hitler's personality as it relates to his audience, because regardless of the specific neuroses Hitler exhibited, the image he cultivated in the minds of Germans and some…...
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"Girls Who Danced before Hitler Praise His Personality." Los Angeles Times (1923-Current
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In this almost tragically naive account of a 1939 performance for Hitler, this article gives some insight into the dominance of personality as the means by which Hitler was considered in the press.
It started in the fall of 1932, Evans explains; Jewish businesses were bombed, Jewish synagogues and other Jewish places were destroyed. In the weeks after Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor "…stormtroopers broke into synagogues and desecrated the religious furniture, smashed the windows of Jewish shops, and subjected Jews to random acts of humiliation," like forcing them to drink castor oil and shaving their beards forcibly in public, Evans goes on.
The Jewish judges and lawyers were not spared from this violence. All over Germany, the Nazi stormtroopers "burst into courthouses… dragged Jewish judges and lawyers out of the proceedings and beat them up…" (Evans). It is hard to imagine the horror that participants must have experience during court proceedings, to have armed storm troopers burst in and grab the judge, drag him into the street and beat him. Of all the outrageously violent and terrifying events in Nazi Germany --…...
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Barsam, Richard Meran. 1975. Filmguide to Triumph of the Will. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
Evans, Richard J. 2005. The Coming of the Third Reich. New York: Penguin Books.
Hegi, Ursula. 2000. Stones from the River. Madison, WI: Demco Media.
I do not agree with the statement that opposition to the Weimar government from 1924-1929 was harmless. There were several significant opposition groups during this period that posed threats to the stability and functioning of the government.
Firstly, right-wing extremist groups, such as the Nazi Party led by Adolf Hitler, emerged during this time and gained considerable support. These groups vigorously attacked the Weimar Republic, spreading their ideologies of racism, anti-Semitism, and authoritarianism. Their opposition was far from harmless, as they organized violent activities, attempted coups, and disrupted the political process. The Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, led by....
Evolution of Political Titles and Its Impact on Contemporary History
Throughout history, political titles have played a crucial role in shaping the exercise of power and the evolution of societies. From ancient monarchs to modern leaders, the titles attributed to political figures have carried immense symbolic and practical significance.
Ancient Monarchies:
In ancient civilizations, such as Egypt and Mesopotamia, rulers bore titles that reflected their divine authority and earthly power. Pharaohs in Egypt were considered gods on earth, while Mesopotamian kings were often referred to as "shepherds of the people." These titles reinforced the absolute authority of the monarch and maintained social order....
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