...“Seven months after being released from Landsberg jail, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler publishes the first volume of Mein Kampf. This was a blueprint of his agenda for a Third Reich that will envelope Europe from 1939 to 1945. The book sold a total of 9,473 copies in its first year. Hitler began composing his time while sitting in Landsberg prison, convicted of treason for his role in the infamous Beer Hall Putsch. The first part of Mein Kampf, subtitled “A Reckoning,” is a 400-plus page diatribe (a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something) on the problems besetting Germany—the French, who wished to dismember Germany; the lack of lebensraum, “living space,” and the need to expand east into Russia; and the baleful influence...
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...reparations to the allied powers. Once the German Empire was destroyed, a new parliamentary government known as the Weimar Republic was formed. The German people suffered from economic instability, massive inflation and a very high unemployment rate which had worsened during the depression following the New York stock market crash in 1929. The Nazi party had made its mark and taken advantage of the political unrest in Germany, gaining an electoral foothold. The Holocaust, also know as the Shoah, was the heinous and despicable genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party between 1939 and 1945 throughout German occupied territory. Although there are a number of parallels between Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, their personal political views became known to the public at very different times; Hitler published his views well before he came in to power, where Mussolini waited until he was the dictator of France. Following World War I, Hitler struggled with his disbelief in Germany’s defeat and was consumed with extreme, revolutionary views regarding German nationalism. In 1919, around the age of 30, Adolf Hitler became a member of the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party which back then was a small, somewhat insignificant, fanatic organization. Hitler was nothing less than a genius when it came to his oratorical skills and, as a result, he quickly assumed an...
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...An Exposition Into Hitler’s Mindset Adolf Hitler is considered one of the world’s worst men to ever walk the planet, he was a vicious dictator who lead and entire country of people into its largest war for his own gain. One of the most interesting parts about Hitler, though, is his own personal history. I am going to outline three areas of Hitler’s life, his issues from his past, specifically his childhood, his rise to power and what lead to his hatred for the Jews, and what the widely accepted beliefs are about his psychological state. It is clear that Hitler had a horrific past, he was beaten by his father, and he was left on the streets after the art school he had wanted to go to for years denied him, it is understandable that Hitler...
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...ADOLF HITLER: BIOGRAPHY AND CHARACTER “Adolf Hitler lived from April 20, 1889 to April 30, 1945—almost exactly fiftysix years. The difference between his first thirty years and the following twentysix years seems to be inexplicable. For thirty years he was an obscure failure; then almost overnight a local celebrity and eventually the man around whom the whole of world policy revolved.” (Haffner, p. 1) The biography of Adolf Hitler is unique among the great political leaders of history. But as a human being, he was always a failure; or at least strangely incomplete. As Sebastian Haffner put it: "His life lacked everything that normally lends weight, warmth and dignity to a human life: education, occupation, love and friendship, marriage, parenthood. Apart from politics his was an empty life and hence one [that] was strangely lightweight, and lightly discarded.” (Haffner, p. 4) What sort of person was Adolf Hitler? Here is one clue. In 1939 Hitler ordered the complete destruction of the Austrian village of Döllersheim. The tiny village, birthplace of his ancestors, was converted into an artillery range for the army and blasted beyond recognition by guns and mortars. Why did the leader of the Greater German Reich order the obliteration of his father's birthplace and destroy the site of his grandmother's grave? Perhaps Hitler was obsessed with the possibility that he was one quarter Jewish; or just as likely, Hitler did not want to reveal too muc...
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...hangover from WW1, the mood surrounding Germany was grim. Germany was slapped with international sanctions and forced to pay reparations to France and Britain for the huge costs of the war. The German people were looking for hope and a leader that could generate some real positive changes. In 1919, Adolf Hitler joined a small political party where he quickly rose to leadership through a number of emotional and captivating speeches. He “promoted a national sense of pride, militarism, and a concept of a radically “pure” Germany” (1). By the end of that year Hitler became the official Fuhrer of this small political party called the Nazi party which consisted of about 3,000 members. Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat for Germany’s economic issues while encouraging anti-Semitic views and behaviors. In 1923, any momentum the Nazi party possessed came to a halt in Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch. In an attempt to overthrow local authorities in Munich, Hitler was sentenced to jail and charged with high treason. As things were looking bleak for the Nazi’s Hitler utilized the courtroom as a platform for his greatest attribute, propaganda. He would rant for hours and hours against the Weimar government demanding change. Throughout his trail Hitler actually gained support for his cause. At the end of the day the right-wing presiding judges sympathized with Hitler and when it was all said and done Adolf Hitler only spent one year in jail. While he was locked up he wrote volume one of Mein Kampf. This...
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...The Rising of a Racist Dictator-- Adolf Hitler The Rising of a Racist Dictator-- Adolf Hitler Ray Cai Period C Mrs. Chappell 5/9/13 Ray Cai Period C Mrs. Chappell 5/9/13 The Rising of a Racist Dictator-- Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler is the leader of the Nazi Party (Nazi is the abbreviation of the Germen word “Nationalsozialismus”) (Shirer Foreword). He improved Germany to a powerful country rapidly after the World War I. Also he is one of the main sponsors of the World War II. He used to lead the Germans to the peak of the power and conquest. His Nazi spirit leaded people to the top of the anti-semitism. With his Nazi Party, Hitler killed at least five million Jews, eight million Bohemians, more than two million Polacks and six million Soviet soldiers and citizens. He started the World War II and it made the death of about twenty million soldiers and twenty million women, children and seniors (Shirer Foreword). In recent study of Hitler and his holocaust against the Jews, he rose to power and spread his anti-semitism throughout Germany and Europe, with the establishment of the concentration camps and his doctrine of hate called “The Final Solution”. I found that the disaster for human beings was not only caused by Adolf Hitler, but was also caused by the everyday people in Germany. In some ways, his “success” represented the common aspiration of the German people at that time. The Treaty of Versailles attacked the finance of Germany and it...
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...Kendrick Alexandre Adolf Hitler’s Life Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889 as an Austrian born German; who became Fuhrer of Nazi Germany. Hitler’s parents were Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl, he was the fourth born of six. Hitler was a rebel when he went to school, one day he and his father had got into an argument because of his refusal to conform to the strict discipline that the school enforced. After his father failed at farming he moved to Lambach, at age eight Hitler began singing lessons, in the church choir, he even considered becoming a priest when he was old enough; however the death of his brother, Edmund who dies of measles, affected him deeply. Hitler changed, he went from a confident, outgoing, conscientious, student to a detached, sullen boy who did nothing but fight his father and teachers. Hitler did however had the passion to go to a classical high school to become an artist, his father wanted him to grow up in his footsteps and wanted to have a career in customs bureau. His father decided to send him to a technical school, in his book Mein Kampf , he tells us that he did poorly in school hoping that his father would see “what little progress I was making at the technical school he would let me devote myself to my dream.” In school young Austrian Germans began to develop German nationalist ideas, Hitler began to express his loyalty to Germany and despising the Hasburg Monarchy. In January 3, 1903 Hitler’s father died, Hitler’s performance in school...
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...Braunau on April 20, 1889, Adolf was the fourth child of Alois Schickelgruber and Klara Hitler. By 1900, young Adolf's talents as an artist surfaced. He did well enough in school to be eligible for either the university preparatory school or the technical/scientific Realschule. Because the technical/scientific Realschule had a course in drawing, Adolf enrolled in there. Adolf suffered from frequent lung infections, and he quit school at the age of 16, partially the result of ill health, but mainly the result of poor schoolwork. In 1906, Adolf traveled Vienna to seek his fortune, but he wasn't able to get admission to any prestigious art school. Hitler spent six years there, living on a small amount of money left for him from his father supplemented with an orphan's pension. On the verge of becoming penniless by 1909, he wandered Vienna as a transient, sleeping in bars, flophouses, and shelters for the homeless, including, ironically, those financed by Jewish philanthropists. It was during this period that he developed his prejudices about Jews, his interest in politics, and the sharpening his debating skills. Vienna was a center of anti-Semitism, and the media's portrayal of Jews as scapegoats with stereotyped attributes did not escape Hitler's fascination. In May 1913, Hitler, trying to avoid military service, left Vienna for Munich, the capital of Bavaria. In January, the police came to his door bearing a draft notice from the Austrian government...
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...Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889. Throughout his life he was very close to his mother and had a difficult relationship with his father. Hitler's father passed away January 3, 1903 followed four year laters by his mother on December 21, 1907 from Breast Cancer. From the period of 1909-1913 Hitler was living homeless in Vienna. In May of 1913 he moved to Munich. By moving away from Austria he avoided the draft, however he was arrested by Munich officers and returned to Austria to face being enlisted. Upon arrival Hitler was put through a physical examination. At this time the doctors deemed him unfit for military service, he was then sent back to Munich. When World War I began Hitler petitioned King Ludwick III of Bavaria to serve in a Bavarian regiment of their Army. He was allowed and so become a runner for the Bavarian Army. Throughout most of World War I, Hitler found himself lucky enough to escape injury, even though he volunteered to go into battle. He was regarded by other soldiers as to eager to please his superiors. On October 7, 1916, Hitler's luck ran out. He was wounded by a shell fragment and sent to a Berlin hospital to recover. On a tour of Berlin, he was appalled at the anti-war sentiment among the German civilians. When he returned to light duty in Munich, he again saw this sentiment and blamed the Jewish people for this. With building hatred toward the Jews, Hitler asked to be sent back to the front lines in 1917. In 1918 Hitler...
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...World War II, however the common belief of fault resides on the implementation of Adolf Hitler. Hitler was possessed by a passionate set of ideals to expand Germany, and with his election as German chancellor in January 1933, marked the start of an accelerating progression towards world war. Under the dominion of Hitlers ambitions, Germany invaded western Poland as a result of the intransigence between both countries. World War II ravaged civilians more severely than any previous conflict, and served as the justification for genocidal killings by Nazi Germany, under the order of Hitler. To fully understand how Hitler attained the support of a nation to agree with his ideology, one must know the conditions before the wake of World War II, and how Hitler instilled influential ideas of national pride. In this essay, I intend on showing why it is important to understand a certain aspect of World War II. I will first focus on establishing the importance of knowing what events led Germany into the circumstances it was in prior to World War II. Accordingly, I will then analyze Hitlers ideology, and why it is vital to understand his point of view. That being the case, I will then narrow the focus on the genocidal killing of Jews by Hitler, and emphasize the importance of understanding why this was happening. From there I will probe through the writings of Hitler in his work of Mein Kampf, and discuss how knowing...
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...has been exaggerated From the instant Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany from January 1933, began to challenge the Treaty of Versailles and adapt an aggressive foreign policy, which heavily contributed to the outbreak of World War Two. Some historians argue that Britain and France were to blame for the Second World War because they did not stand up to Hitler.The historian AJP Taylor argued that Hitler simply continued the aggressive foreign policy but others point out that he did not initially intend to the take back Germany's former colonies, this theory is known as the Functionalist argument. On the other hand the other theory which is the Internationalist argument, these historians such as Gerhard Weinberg argued that Hitler had a master scheme all along and that he had planned the Holocaust. The functionalist view may argue that Great Britain and France were more to blame as they did not stop Germany, eventually they turned a blind eye. Chamberlain proposed the policy of appeasement which made concessions to the dictatorial powers of Hitler, he had done this because the British armed forces were not ready for a world war with Germany in 1938. However appeasement was wrong because Hitler was a dictator who could not be trusted to keep his word, especially because he had made it clear that he wanted an Empire in the East to give German Lebensraum and would only be stopped by war. Appeasement also made Britain look weak and encouraged Hitler to keep demanding more and...
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...There are certain freedoms in life to which we should all be endowed, as people of the world. There are some people in this world who seem to believe that part of those liberties include stripping others of theirs. Throughout time, there have been many horrible dictators in multiple countries around our world. Despots such as Mussolini, Lenin, Kim Jong-Il, and Saddam Hussein have terrorized entire governments and the people living beneath them. One of the worst that we all know by name is Adolf Hitler. Hitler’s acts against the Jewish people as a totalitarian dictator in Nazi Germany revealed to the world just how erroneous discrimination and supremacy based upon race are, and how important it is to love our brothers and sisters. I am...
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...Propaganda: Selling Social Policy How was Hitler able to use social policy and propaganda to manifest support for the National Socialist Party Hitler’s radical antisemitism? by James C HIST2** Professor: Judith S****** The name Adolf Hitler, will be forever synonymous with one of the most oppressive and destructive eras in human history. Often regarded as the worst anthropological disaster in history, World War 2 was responsible for the deaths of millions of soldiers and civilians alike who. This would mark “...the first [war] in which civilian populations became systematic, strategic targets.” (Merriman page1049) Driven by his intolerance or perhaps hatred, towards the Jewish people Hitler was able to turn a largely personal vendetta against Jews, into an issue of public policy, and ultimately one of the largest genocides ever documented[1]. How did one mans ideas, Hitler’s anti-semitism, evolve from the hurtful words of Mein Kampf to anti-Jewish laws in Nazi Germany and ultimately the biggest recorded savagery in the History of mankind? Although the blood of over 6million Jews stains his hands, Hitler was not alone in his actions; he required support. This essay examines various theories regarding the conception of Hitler’s antisemitic values and asks how Hitler was able to use social policy and propaganda to manifest support for his would be genocidal Nazi regime. Central to comprehending policy decisions made by Hitler, is an understanding of his antisemitism...
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...of Germany during the “Nazi period” (Goldhagen, 1997, p. 5). This report will first discuss the background information on how Hitler rose to power before moving on to Nazi ideology, then the establishment of Israel and Raphael Lemkins definition of genocide and finally how the state for the Jews impacted the Palestinian civilians in regards to Lemkins definition of...
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...especially the one established by Mussolini in Italy. Benito Mussolini: Benito Mussolini served as Italy’s 40th Prime Minister from 1922 until 1943. He is considered a central figure in the creation of Fascism and was both an influence on and close ally of Adolf Hitler during World War II. In 1943, Mussolini was replaced as Prime Minister and served as the head of the Italian Social Republic until his execution by Italian partisans in 1945. Adolf Hitler: Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. Hitler was responsible for starting World War II and for killing more than 11 million people during the Holocaust. He was know as the Führer of the Third Reich. As dictator of Germany, Hitler wanted to increase and strengthen the German army as well as expand Germany's territory. Although these things broke the terms of the Versailles Treaty, the treaty that officially ended World War I, other countries allowed him to do so. Since the terms of the Versailles Treaty had been harsh, other countries found it easier to be lenient than risk another bloody European war. When the Nazis attacked Poland World War II began. Nazism: "Nazi" is an abbreviation for the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), known in English as the German National Socialist Workers Party, as it existed under the control of Adolf Hitler from 1920 until the end of World War II. The party was held together primarily by authoritarianism, militarism, and belief in German...
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