Adolf Hitler was a dictator, he sent his political opponents in the German Socialist Party and German Communist Party to concentration camps, where they were murdered.
No, I do not agree with his ';vision'; of creating a ';perfect'; Germany, since he resorted to sending his political opponents to concentration camps where they were murdered.
Please don't tell me to not tell you to do your homework.Can you list some facts about Adolf Hitler? Do you agree with his vision of creating a ';perfect'; Germany?
Born Adolf Schicklegruber in Austria.
Fought for Austria in WWI.
Was sent in to spy on the NAZI party and ended up taking it over.
Was a rabid anti-semite from the start but also used anti-semitism and hatred of other groups to galvanize support.
Took advantage of the fact that individual liberty as a concept had all but died in Germany - no matter what government took over in the 1930s, it would be totalitarian, it would massacre people, the only questions were what brand of totalitarianism and what people would be massacred.
Was paranoid and delusional. Overruled his military commanders - well no, he overruled his ground forces, who were brilliant, while letting his air force do what they pleased, even though their commander was incompetent. Militarily you see, the bad guys had chances to win.
It wasn't Hitler's idea to create a perfect Germany, the longing to do so was already present when he got onto power.
Interestingly, romanticism during the victorian time and the devastating conditions after WWI created a longing to restore national identity and self-respect in by nature, very proper Germans.
Many aspects of everyday German living were enlarged (love to sing marching songs while walking, germanic history and the desire to be organized, and industrious, to name a few). The Nazis took lessons from other powers that rose and sank during Europe's and the Middle East history, especially the Romans...
Let me ask you without making a comparison:
Don't you want to believe you live in the best country in the world?
This wasn't a discussion question the teacher made, was it? Who but a Nazi would agree with Hitler's ';vision of creating a 'perfect' Germany';? He murdered 6 million Jews and millions of people from other categories.
As for facts, he was an artist before he came to power. After he came to power, he conquered most of Europe. Then he committed suicide when the Allies had all but defeated him. There you go.
Hitler was a hero to his people. You have to remember, that Hitler's objectives were stopped short, and the idea of National Socialism was defeated on the battlefield, rather than in in intellectual debate.
I propose this scenario to you. If Germany would have established a state in which all people shared the same religious, political, moral beliefs, would we have all of these problems currently plaguing our planet? Nobody knows. Germans loved Hitler, and they believed that by following him they were fulfilling their destiny. Under National Socialism, Germany would have thrived, and had the potential to be one of the greatest civilizations in the history of man. This, of course, was all stopped short. The holocaust was one way to make the ends justify the means. Most people disagree, but Hitler was willing to take that chance.
Hitler loved his people, and his people loved him. ';Enemies of the state'; of course were not welcome, because Hitler saw the result of multiculturalism in society. Look where we are today; plagued by guerrila warfare, political apathy, terrorism, gang violence, and many many more injustices and black eyes to human civilization.
Hitler's image and the image of National Socialism have been forever tarnished by decades of propaganda for multiculturalist, capitalist states. Hitler's true intention was the creation of a marvelous empire with freedom, efficiency, and greatness for his people. So yes, Hitler should be considered a hero. Maybe one day intellecuals and philosophers will debate the true benefits to Hitler's campaign. But for right now, it is too soon to do such things.
Hitler's father was a minor official in the civil service. There was insanity in his family, something the Nazis completely squashed. Once he graduated from high school he wanted to be an artist, so he applied at an art school in Vienna but failed the examination. So then he tried to paint post cards for sale, but as he was only beginning as an artist, these didn't sell well. He lived in boarding houses where he was supported by his grandmother (I believe it was her). At any rate he never worked. He was intensely interested in politics and as a young man already had a reputation for screaming his way through an argument. He eagerly joined the German army when WW I broke out and fought on the Western Front. He was given the Iron Cross for courage and was promoted to the rank of corporal. He never even made it to sergeant, which suggests the officers thought he was not suitable to lead men into battle, not even a platoon. As it turned out later they were right.
Hitler was blinded by mustard gas at the end of the war. By now he was spouting Anti-Semitic speeches at every opportunity.
This is important. The Army could not admit why it lost the war, this would have been too embarrassing. Germans could not understand why, after thrashing Russia, they then lost on the Western Front. The Kaiser abdicated and the Reichstag created a new government, the Weimar Republic, which also never explained the loss to the people. Thus the ground was ripe for all kinds of conspiracy theories, the most popular of which is that the Jews had stabbed the country in the back. This is in spite of the fact that German Jews fought for Germany in the war, and that the inventor of poison gas was a Jewish chemist. It didn't matter what the facts were, people wanted to believe the rumors. The Nazi Party began arming themselves early in preparation for the revolution that would put away the Weimar Republic for good. The Army hired Hitler to spy on the party, but he liked the party so much that he joined it instead. The Nazi Party was founded and funded in its early years by a secret budget of the German Navy.
People found Hitler to be charismatic. Whenever he had the opportunity to shove aside someone ahead of him in the party, he did so. He then led the 'putsch' in a pub of Munich. This ridiculous affair had him arrested as a traitor. However the judge was so sympathetic to him and his cause that he gave him a very light prison sentence.
Once ought, he gained some early devout followers, like Heinrich Himmler, who by 1927 had composed a list of all of Hitler's enemies, people who were to be executed once Hitler gained power.
Hitler passed himself off as a genius on the strength of his excellent memory. He was always a corporal trying to be Napoleon, and was suspicious of the German High Command, because these men were much better educated than he was and he couldn't tolerate being upstaged.
It was Himmler who developed the concentration camps. Laws against Jews became increasingly harsh, and once Hitler invaded Poland in Sept. of 1939 a plan was put in place to eliminate all the Jews, first in Germany and then from the rest of Europe.
He didn't have a normal sex life and astonished his cronies by his refusal to have children. Eva Braun was a prop - Hitler may have been gay or impotent.
He was at the very least insanely narcissistic.
Himmler's prog
I don't agree with his vision. But it seems to be true that it is perfectionists who get the most out of Germans. Their football manager Franz Beckenbauer was a perfectionist.
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