No matter what millennium, century, or decade one looks at, one will be able to find at least one person with evil intentions for the world. These evil intentions may at first not be seen as evil intentions, but instead they may seem as if they are great ideas for the countries future. This was the case for Adolf Hitler who took advantage of his countries economical depression to rise to power. Leaders such as King Richard III have always had evil intentions because King Richard III wanted to take over the thrown by any means necessary. King Richard III and Adolf Hitler are two very similar leaders who ascended to the top of their respected countries. In order to get a better understanding of these two leaders one must break their lives up into three important stages. The first stage is how the two …show more content…
The second stage what they did while they were in power, and the last stage is there fall from power. Each of these stages give examples of key insight’s into what there lives were like, how each leader was similar and different from each other. At a young age Hitler was considered a quiet person who didn’t really talk to anyone but that all changed in 1914. Like King Richard III, Adolf Hitler had war experience after fighting in the first World War. While fighting in the war Hitler received the Iron Cross first class on August 4, 1918. There are two contradicting accounts of Hitler’s actions, which caused him to receive the Iron Cross. Author Konrad Heiden writes, “But it does seem strange that none of his superiors had apparently heard of the dramatic exploit. The official history of the List Regiment does, to be sure, recount similar feats by other members…but the history does not mention Hitler’s
There have been countless atrocities committed throughout history. Most of these atrocities are justified and developed from ideas and false realities. The most infamous atrocity of all history, the holocaust is no exception. Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany from 1933 until his suicide at the end of WWII, was directly responsible for the deaths of over 12 million people. Alan Bullock in his book Hitler a Study in Tyranny dispels any notion that any of Hitler’s ideas were original. Bullock proposes that Hitler and his rise to power was a product of other political ideas and a knack for exploiting the timing of events to extend his influence. According to Bullock Hitler’s coming to power was the product the political ideals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries which he was exposed to, the world post-WWI, and a knack for exposition events to his favor. He used his gifts of using propaganda and his organizational skills to use politics as a means to achieving power.
Have you ever wondered how Adolf Hitler became the powerful and evil dictator he was? In todays society, no one is brought into this world as evil; everyone is born in the purest form of life. Something bad has to happen to someone that makes a person have so much hate. Therefore, in order to better understand what made Hitler so evil, people need to know that he was influenced by his relationship with his father, not being able to pursue his dream, and his beliefs.
Adolf Hitler’s rise to power In Germany was nothing less than astounding. Hitler first came in to power on January 20, 1933, after he was awarded with the Iron Cross First Class and Black Wound Badge and was appointed Chancellor of Germany. His father did not respect his interest in fine art. Hitler entered into the Academy of Fine Arts twice and got rejected both times. Then eventually joined the German Army.
In conclusion, I have gained great respect for both of these famous leaders. I have learned a lot about of
He moved to Munich to prevent his arrest for evasion of his obligation in joining military service. He avoided joining the military until the outbreak of WWI. In 1914, Hitler avidly enlisted to serve in a Bavarian regiment, “it gave his life direction and a cause which he could commit himself totally” (Adolf Hitler and World War I: 1913–1919). Hitler was a courageous soldier; he was promoted to the rank of Corporal, he was injured twice, and was awarded many medals. Hitler became partly blind, on October 1918, when there was a mustard gas attack near Ypres in Belgium. As a result, he was sent to a military hospital where, on November 11, 1918 he would learn that the opposing side called truce and to stop fighting for a while. The end of the war had a great impact on Hitler, there was a chance he could get demobilized or taken out of active service in the military. If he was demobilized it would be “tearing him from the only community in which he had ever felt at home and returning him to a civilian life in which he had neither direction nor career prospects” (Adolf Hitler and World War I: 1913-1919). The German army, also known as Reichswehr, gave Hitler a job as an educator and an informant. This left Hitler with no purpose in life, until he joined the Deutschland Arbeiterpartei Party, or German Workers’ Party
The meaning of power is to have possession of control, authority, or influence over others. One could argue that to have power has a positive effect on others, although it is very clear that power affects people in a negative way. Take Hitler for example, or the King Creon from the drama Antigone. These two leaders make it completely obvious that power affects people negatively from concentration camps to being forced to follow a law that is morally unjust. These are the reasons that power has a negative impact on others.
To be a leader means to be able to move masses” (Adolf Hitler), the quote epitomizes both the Nazi party in Germany and the World State in ‘Brave New World’, due to the fact that both exercised propaganda to gain dictatorship and control over their people. It is very easy for one man or society to dictate millions with the help of advanced technology and propaganda techniques, like card stacking, glittering generalities, . In World War ll, the venomous Adolf Hitler used modern technology to generate fear and distress to humanity. As a result, Hitler brainwashed his people of following his beliefs; which included racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Bolshevism. In comparison to Hitler, the World State and Mustapha Mond use totalitarianism to manipulate
Thoughts surrounding the death of Hitler are interesting and controversial. Conventional wisdom dictates that he committed suicide in a bunker with his wife. However there is evidence to support that Hitler and his wife fled to Argentina to hide away, and many people truly believe that to be so. It is simple to dismiss such a conspiracy theory such as imaginative fiction, but there is much evidence leading up to his escape and faking of his death, I believe that Hitler lived much longer that believed and will use research to support his escape to Argentina.
Adolf Hitler once said, “Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, and assassination. This is the war of the future.”(Adolf Hitler Quote). Guided by these words, Hitler continued to annihilate the Jews and anyone that opposed to him or his government. As a child, he was influenced by many and belittled by many more. Hitler’s desire for prestige and dominance turned him into the most powerful and nefarious man in German history.
Hitler in grade school had started to create beliefs for himself that he shared with all of his friends. Then a few years later, Hitler dropped out of school after his mother had died. Soon after, he ran out of money, so for the next few years Hitler stayed at a homeless shelter. It was here where hitler first cultivated the ideas of anti-semitism. Soon after the outbreak of WW1, Hitler applied for the German Military and was accepted. He was not always present at the front lines, but he was present at many of the major battles and was awarded medals for his “service”. After his service, he worked at a job in munich as a military intelligence officer for “”The German Worker’s Party, ”(DAP). It was also here where Hitler gained more anti-semitic,
When WWI broke out, Adolf Hitler, Then in his mid 20's, hoped to join the army to fight. Being rejected for the Austrian Army Hitler was delighted because he wanted to be a German. He wrote to the King of a large State in Southern Germany and later was assigned to the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment which was composed of student volunteers. Hitler was wounded several times throughout the war and at the end of the was his rank was Lance Corporal.
In conclusion it has been demonstrated how the Attack On Pearl Harbor can be considered one of the key reasons why U.S.A entered WW2. It is clear that historians will never know whether the American Government was planning to take part into war even before Pearl Harbor, but using the sources previously analyzed we can demonstrate the strong economic interests America had in Europe and in Northern Africa before that dramatic event. Equally important was the relationship between Germany and USA, more specifically between the Nazi-nationalist economy and the world-wide capitalist market. In fact the two opposite ideas could not get on due to their ideological fallacies. The attack on Pearl Harbor was simply the spark to what were already
For the past seventy years, Adolf Hitler has been known as one of the most evil men in history. The Fueherer, as he was known, exhumed hatred and violence in his pursuit of power. A vile man, driven by violence and a lust for power, eventually drove himself mad with his own idealistic vision of what a perfect world would be, and how he would achieve
especially noted when he earned the First Class Iron Cross, the highest military honor a German
Hitler escaped death in battle many times, and was awarded two Iron Crosses for bravery. He rose to the rank of corporal but no further. In October 1916, he was wounded by an enemy shell and taken to a Berlin area hospital. After recovering, and serving a total of four years in the trenches, he was temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack in Belgium in October 1918.