Mrs. Alfonso
English 12
May 2, 2017
Positive contributions by Adolf Hitler
After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.
-John F Kennedy
After visiting such Nazi strongholds as were found in Berchtesgaden and Kehlsteinhaus; Personal diary (1 August 1945); published in Prelude to Leadership (1995)
Adolf Hitler was …show more content…
In literature, film, television, music, video games, and the internet. He was the inspiration for Big Brother in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. He has been satirized in multiple films including Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator and Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds. He is one of the antagonists in the T.V. series The Man in the High Castle. He is the Final Boss[1] in the popular video game Wolfenstein 3D. He is memefied all over the Internet. Countless politicians are compared to him to emphasized how bad they are. There is no other person whose name is as synonymous with …show more content…
Hitler personally gave financial support to the Wissenschaftliches Institut zur Erforschung der Tabakgefahren (Institute for Tobacco Hazards Research) Nazi doctors were the first to link smoking to lung cancer, miscarriage, and child defects. Smoking was banned in public areas such as restaurants, coffee shops, buses, and trains. The term “passive smoking” ("Passivrauchen"), or second hand smoking, was coined in Germany. Heinrich Himmler restricted police personnel and SS officers from smoking while in duty. Cigarette rations were also limited in the Wehrmacht. Medical lectures were organized to teach the public about the hazards of tobacco. Pregnant women under the age of 25 and over 55 were not given tobacco ration cards during WWII, and in 1943, Hitler prohibited smoking for people under the age of 18 smoking advertisements were severely regulated by the Nazis, and the tobacco tax was raised 80-95% to deter people from