This is Adolf Hitler
I must confess it's with a feeling of discust that I include Adolf Hitler in these web.
His entire infleunce is pernicious. I have no desire to honour a man whose chief importance
lays in having caused the death of some thirty-five million people. But theres is no getting
away from the fact that Hitler had many infleunce upon many people.
Adolf Hitler was born in Branau, Austria in 1889, and as a youngman he was an unsucessful
artist, and sometime during his he became an ardent German nationalist.. When the First World
War brokeout in 1914, Hitler volunteered for the German army, and as a soldier he was wounded
and later honoured a medal for bravery. But Germany's defeat rather left him shocked and
angry. In 1919, Hitler joined a small right wing party in Munich, called the National Socialist
German Workers Party(or Nazi Party.) He became the parties undisputed leader or Fuherer
in 1921. The Party grew by strength. In 1923 Hitler attempted a coup'd'et, or also known as
the Munich Beer Hall Putch, were Hitler and the Nazis attempted to take power by overthrowing
the German government, the putch failed, and Hitler was arrested and tried, and convicted of
treason, and spent less than a year in prison.
While in prison he produced the book, Mein Kampf, which was published in 1925. The Nazi Party
remained small, even in 1928, and the advent of the Great Depression in 1929, which brought
a serious economic crisis in Germany, lead to the dissatisfaction with the established German
politcal party.
In January 1933, Hitler became chancellor of Germany, and once in power, he used the government
apparatus to crush all opponents. This infact lead to the abuse of civil liberties, and most
criminals were sent to prison without any trail, and most political opponents were either
beaten up by the secret police, or were imprisoned in the consentration camps, or were
murdered outright. A year after he took office, Hitler became a total dictator of all of
Germany, and opposition to his rule was almost impossible.
Most Germans supported Hitler, simply because he could reduce unemployment and generate the
German economy. When Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles, Britain and France didn't
intervene when he built a large German armed forces. In fact, Hitler managed to gain control
of his first territory without going to war with Britain and France, when he annexed the
Rhineland in 1936.
In 1938, Germany annexed Austria, and after that Hitler demanded for German terrotorial
gains. He threatened to go to war, if Czechaslavakia didn't hand over a small territory
known as the Suddetenland..
Britain and France, didn't go to war because both these countries had economic problems,
and desired peace, instead wanted to by the "Peace in our time". Hitler ordered the annexation
of the Sudetenland in September 1938, only due to the Munich Argreement. In March 1939,
Germany annexed Czechaslavakia, and after that incident, the Allies distrusted Hitler,
and this time he threatened to take Poland . Britain and France assured Poland, that if
attacked then they will come to the rescue of Poland. In August 22nd 1939, Hitler signed a
non-argeression pact with Stalin, this move was made to stop the USSR from stopping Hitler
with his conquest of Poland.
A week later Germany attacked Poland, and sixteen days later, the USSR invaded Poland, and
Britain and France didn't come to the rescue of Poland, and he quickly defeated Poland,
and this was the begining of WWII.
The following year, 1940 was probably Hitler's greatest year. His armies gobbled up Denmark,
Norway, the Lower Countries and quickl;y defeated France. He then setted out to conquer
Britain, but the invasion of Britain didn't go ahead due to the famous Battle of Britain.
In April 1941, his armies invaderd Greece and Yuguslavia, and in June 22nd 1941, Hitler broke
his non-argression pact with Stalin, and then went ahead with the invasion of the USSR. At
first the Germans were successful, but the sheer might of the Soviet army and the harsh
Russian winter brought many heavy setbacks and crushing defeats.
In December 1941, the USA declaired war on Germany, after it's attack by Japanesse in Pearl
Harbour, Haiwai, and in the following year Hitler was probably in the height of his conquest.
The turning point arrived only with the crushing defeats in El Alamein in Egypt by the Allies
in 1942, and by the Russians in Stalingrad in 1943. After this heavy crushing defeats,
Germany's military conquests slowly began to decline, and Hitler still refused to surrender,
and the war went on for another two more years.
After these heavy defeats, at home Hitler became a diminished figure, and once he realized
Germany's defeat, he commited suicide in April 30th 1945. A week later, the German army
surrendered. In the terrotaries Hitler's armies controlled, a large number of men, women and
children, were captured, and put in cattle trucks to be taken to the death camps, and there
they were murdered with special equipped gas chambers. In this way, six million jews died
this way.
The Jews weren't the only victims of Hitler, a staggering number of Gypsies,
Slaves and homesexuals died this way, and they even included those who were seen as racially
inferrior or even enemy of the state. He was a fanatical rascist whose aminosity was to kill
the Jews for passion. Hitler also hated both Communism and Russia. As a result of the war,
the Russians took large areas of Eastern and Central Europe, and spreaded Communist infleunce
to one-third of the planet. Despite his anti-semitic and militaristic remarks, Hitler failed
to achieve his goal. He simply made it clear, that it was his job to kill every single jew
in the world. And fifteen years after Hitler took office, the first Jewish state was
established for the first time in 2000years. Hitler hated and wanted to destroy
demorcracy not just in other countries but in Germany as well. Today Germany is a functioning
demorcraftic nation, and it's citizens have less tolerance for authoritarian rule, than any
previous generation of Germans.
What does this strange combination of infleunce show between the generation of Hitler's
and today. And secondly, the entire Nazi movement was dominated by a single person in a
extradinary degree. After his death, the government that Hitler headed, died with him.
If Marx, Lenin,Stalin and others played the rise and fall of Communism, National Socialism
didn't have a leader neither before or after Hitler. And thirdly, there is little indication
however that the German people in the 1920's and 1930's wanted there government as almost as
extreme as Hitler's. It is certainly clear that the Hitler era was hardly predicted by any
political observer. And today Germany has little or less more territory, than the time Hitler
took office. It is safe to predict that Hitler's fame will last a long time. Firstly a
foreigner with no money, or no political experience or connection, in a matter of fourteen
years, became a head of a major world power, is truely amazing. And another reason why
Hitler's fame will last is that, his story is so bizzare and interesting, and will be
remembered for many centuries to come. If men like Nero and Caligula be remembered, twenty
centuries after they had lived, and remained to be the symbol of cruelty, then it is certainly
clear, that Hitler is likely to be remembered.
In the first place, he is regarded as the most evil man in history, and two or three
thousand years from now, Hitler will be remembered as the major instigator of WWII, the
largest war the world has yet seen. And with the advent of the Nuclear Weapons, it makes
it very unlikely that there will be such large scale wars in the future.
And 3000years from now, WWII maybe considered a major event in history. What is certain,
is that the long-term infleunce of Hitler is rather greater than we thought. And I will rank
Hitler lower than figures such as Shi Huangdi, Augustus Caesar and Genghis Khan, because
the actions of these three men, affected the world, long after they lived. Close parrelels
to Hitler are probably Alexander the Great and Napoleon. But in the short-term, Hitler
disturbed the world, more than those men did during there lifetime.
This is Adolf Hitler