Adolf Hitler was an inspirational leader, a skillful politician and organizer [Source A]. Once he gained power, he used it to demand respect by getting all the soldiers to salute him at all times [Source E]. Hitler is mostly known for his ability to stir crowds with his speeches [Source C], being his greatest attribute that propelled him into the hearts of the people, he would also reveal his passion through speeches. Donations into the Party Coffers came pouring in when he delivered an…
squabbles.’ We shan’t speak of this again.”’ This quote is after Gretchen was beat by Reinhard and goes to HItler hoping for help, but instead Hitler does not help her and tells her to get over it. This shows the theme because Gretchen usually put all of her trust in her Uncle Dolf, but he did not help her the way she needed him to, and its events like these, that slowly cause Gretchen to go against Hitler and the Nazi Party. page 12 , 5 + 6 “By now, the crowd had scattered. All except a lone…
organization to receive military training after which they had to perform, mostly, suicide missions. Essentially, those young Germans were created by Hitler to serve as an army of fit. They were left only the choice of either following Nazi party orders, or facing trial with the possibility of execution. At the beginning of war, the members in Hitler Youth even amounted to 8.8 million. Once the war began, the numbers declined to just over one million, since many of them were involved in the…
The Holocaust On the Saturday morning of April 20, 1889, one of the most vengeful dictators in all of history was born, his name was Adolf Hitler. Adolf was a German idealist that believed in the so-called “master race”, he believed that Aryan’s, blonde hair, blue eyes, were the pure breed and that they could dominate in anything (Altman 8). He viewed Jews as a threat to the master race, so he came up with a plan and called it the “Final Solution”. In this, he believed that if he killed or…
"He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” This quote by Hitler sends chills down people's spines. The feelings people feel towards this dictator is a mixture of hatred and sadness for the people he hurt. But did he only hurt the Jew? No, he hurt the disabled, gays, and communist, the list will go on. Yet that is not all. People forget about all of the Germans who were brainwashed to believe these terrible things were right. The next question after people realizes this atrocity is why.…
Hitler Youth was an extension of Hitler's belief that the children were the future of a Nazi Germany. Hitler Youth was originally a program similar to the Boy Scouts of America that was established as early as 1922. In the beginning, the Hitler Youth program was not so popular until Hitler came to power due to the competition of other youth groups that were soon Nazified or disband. By the end of 1933, Hitler Youth had gained over 3.5 million members total. German boys between the ages 14 to 18…
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Baurau am Inn, Austria to Adolf Hitler Sr. and Klara Polz. Adolf had five other siblings but his three older siblings, Gustav, Ida and Otto, died in infancy. At the age of three Adolf and his family moved to Passau, Germany and began to have more of a lower Bavarian dialect, rather than an Austrian-German accent. In 1894, Hitler 's family moved back to Austria and lived in Leoning 's and a year later moved to a small landholding in Helfeld where Adolf…
Adolf Hitler was considered to be a totalitarian ruler. Totalitarianism is a type of leadership in government who has absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution. They are generally an authoritarian individual, group, or form of government. It was shown through Hitler’s historical background and the effects of the Treaty of Versailles leading up to his rule. Followed by Hitler’s rise to power due to the Reichstag and the Munich Putsch beginning his…
Adolph Hitler was no exception. Born in 1889 to a simple family in Austria (“Adolph Hitler: Er.Yrs.” n.p.), it was impossible to guess that he would become such a prominent person in the twentieth century. Hitler’s personal mindset, the institutions he attended, and the relationships he built, all within his early life, helped shape his foundation to become one…
quote states, Nazism is a method of thinking that promoted racial hierarchy made infamous by Adolf Hitler during his reign as Fuehrer or leader of Germany. Hitler was introduced to this way of thinking from reading and hearing speeches from Hans F. K. Günther, a racial theorist who believed in the aryan race being superior to all other humans. This belief is what governed Hitler’s life, as soon as Hitler became Feurer, he used the power of his position to…