Was it good strategy that brought Hitler to power, or dumb luck?
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He was smart enough to write a book,  so draw your own conclusion.
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By using similar tactics that Hitler used
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We remember so that we don't let history repeat itself.  Hitler was a great Orator who used his ability of speach giving to build up the Nazi party and eventually take control of Germany.  He was a Corporal in World War I and was devistated by the German Loss of the war as well as the terms of the surrender. He built an army with youth clubs and an Airforce out of Flying Clubs as Germany was restricted as to the number in each by the treaty of Versalles.  He built a strong organization of Secret Police and held a real tight reign on the people of Germany as well as the Annexed areas of Europe that were conceeded to him.\n\nOf course World War II started in 1939 when Hitler took Poland in about 3 weeks time and turned around and marched through France in 6 weeks.  The Europe war lasted until May 8, 1945.  The U.S. fought with Japan until September, 1945.\n\nBefore and during World War II Hitler dreamed of a society led by the German Aryan Race, he set out a plan to help produce more purity in Europe with his "Final Solution".  He was responsible for the genocide extermination of 6,000,000 Jews, as well as many Gypsies and Jehovah's Witnesses. He used most of these people before their extermination as slave labor for his war machine.  He was so adamant about the extermination of the Jews that he used resources such as Rail Roads that could have moved troops to the Russian front to move Jews to Extermination Camps.  All of the "Concentration Camps" also required much manpower that could have been put to use in the war effort.  By the end of the War Hitler was ordering troops that did not exist into battle.  He was quite ill with Parkinsons Disease and extremely paranoid of all germs and of course plots against his life.  He died by committing suicide so that he could not be taken alive.  His vast empire had collapsed into 3 square blocks when he finally died and the Germans continued to fight for a little over a week after his death.\n\nHitler needs to be remembered because of his "Racist" ideas and where they lead.  We need to remember what happened to all the people who died in what was probably the largest effort at genocide to date.  He built killing factories to do this work and it must be remembered so that we do not ever allow this thing to happen again in this world.  I believe that his failures in life were probably his greatest influence.  He spent around 2 years in prison after a failed revolt in 1923, during which time he wrote "Mein Kampf" in which he outlined his plans for Germany and his Master Race. The sales of this book made Hitler a Millionaire, which allowed him more time to spend on Politics and not have to worry about how to pay the bills.  His greatest Role Model was Benito Mussulini the Fascist Dictator of Italy, however later in the war it was Hitler that was the role model for Mussulini.\n\nThis is one page in history that we never want to see repeated and that is why we must remember Hitler.
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I personally know I could sell a roomful of strangers a dumpster load of zip-lock baggies full of bowel-movement in under ten minutes.  It is, by far, my strongest and most naturally inherent trait.  But any job offers that could been able to be mutually benefitted by, and derived, through this gift, were ruined by selfish influences and forces of ill-placed motive that had not a thing to do with my powers of influence through oration.  Now my influences in words will convey only, go away. (notice the use of the ill-placed and poor mannered analogy regarding bowel-movement)  BUT, that's life, and not my issues to deal with, nor my dumpster.  And now, I am right where I am supposed to be.\n\nAlso, I think Adolph Hitler was a very influential speaker, and I will also assume, with great conviction in probability, was Grigory Rasputin
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Hitler was crazy and I bet he didn't even know he was partially Jewish. He needed the support of Germany, so he needed to blame a weak part of the population. He chose Jews because they were not Christian, which the majority of Germans were. They did not fit the regualar German "LOOK" and he felt there was room for discrimination. I am not saying the Jews are weak, and it was a bad move on Adolf Hitler's part. Later during the Liberation, they had to evecuate dozens of overcrowded camps and try to kill everyone without klling the soilders they would need later. Hitler had taken it too far and evacuation was a nusiance. He did it because of various diseases inside him, and because he was a wrongly prejudiced man. He was also against those in wheelchairs, African Americans, homosexuals, bisexuals, gypsies, and partially woman  and other minorities in his point of view.
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1.Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, at Braunau-am-Inn, Austria. Alois, his father, had risen from a poor peasant background to become an Austrian customs official and was able to provide his son with a secondary school education. Adolf, a bright and talented student at his village school, felt out of place in the much larger urban secondary school. He gave himself up to aimless reading, dreamed about becoming an artist, and developed a talent for evading responsibilities. Poor school marks prevented him from obtaining the customary graduation certificate. After the death of his father, he left his home in Linz, Upper Austria, in 1907 to seek his fortune in Vienna.\n\nHitler's professed aim in Vienna was to study art, especially architecture, but he twice failed, in 1907 and 1908, to get admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts. These failures destroyed what little order he had established in his life. He withdrew completely from family and friends and wandered aimlessly through the city, observing its life. Though he continued to read voraciously, he derived most of his knowledge from secondhand sources, coffeehouse talk, newspapers, and pamphlets. He encountered the writings of an obscure author whose racist and anti-Semitic ideas impressed him. Politically, he turned to a fervent German nationalism and a vague anti-Marxism. But at this time he was probably mainly interested in being accepted as an artist and architect. \n\nWhen the money left by his parents ran out, Hitler fell into total poverty, lodging in a men's hostel. Grudgingly, he decided to support himself by painting postcards and watercolors and to accommodate himself to the mixed company of tramps, outcasts, cranks, and transients that populated his lodgings. In both respects he did the barest minimum; he never learned to work regularly, and he remained essentially a loner. But he learned an invaluable lesson: how to evaluate and exploit the mentality of these marginal people, the Lumpenproletariat. He never considered that they posed a social problem, however, and for the rest of his life he mistook them for the real working class.\n\n3.Allied inactivity and a lightning victory over Poland permitted Hitler to mobilize his forces fully and to persuade his reluctant generals to intensify the war effort. In April 1940, German troops conquered Norway and Denmark; in May and June they swept through the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. On June 22, a triumphant Hitler forced France to sign an armistice at Compiegne, the site of the armistice of 1918. He was at the peak of his career, having now proved himself a superior military commander, and he began to build his New Order in Europe. The New Order's only tangible result was Heinrich Himmler's policy of racial reorganization. It combined a senseless resettlement of racially "valuable populations with a relentless suppression and extermination of "subhumans, among them about 6 million Jews, through slave labor, concentration camps, gas chambers, firing squads, and starvation.\n\nMeanwhile, Britain's determination and the imminent conflict with Russia forced Hitler to go on. After unsuccessfully trying to defeat Britain through a heavy bombing attack on the British Isles and a ground offensive against British troops in North Africa, Hitler turned with full force to the east. On June 22, 1941, he launched his attack on the Soviet Union. But the German advance was stopped before Moscow by a harsh winter and a Russian counterattack. At the same time Japan, with which Germany had a nonaggression pact, attacked Pearl Harbor, and Hitler declared war on the United States.\n\n4.During this period, Hitler lived mainly from royalties for his book and fees for newspaper articles. He was able to afford an apartment in Munich, a villa in the Alps, and a car, but his style of life remained modest. He had a craving for pastries, movies, and Richard Wagner's music. His behavior still alternated between o
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From the point of view of those of us here in Europe, he executed a lot of bad guys. So that's an accomplishment. Good or bad depends on your politics.
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It helped Hitler get power in Germany by telling the Germans that the Jews were responsible for their economic problems.
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Hitler tried to invade Russia.\n\nDo you know why he failed?\n\nCause back then, they didn't have anti-freeze, and the tanks FROZE.\n\nPoor sorry sacks had to walk it back to Germany.\n\nLoL!
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We entered WWII after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, not because Hitler declared war on America, it was common knowledge that Hitler wanted to take over the world. It wasn't 20 million people it was 11-12 million. if you really want to place the blame anywhere but the Nazis and Fascists then you should blame France and Britain and the other Allies that attend the Munich Conference. It was here that the policy of appeasement was applied towards Hitler. Appeasement if you don't know is the act of giving in to enemies in order to avoid war. Britain and France allowed hitler to take over the Rhineland and it was only after hitler's invasion of Poland that the rest of Europe declared war. Also the blame lies with the individals that lived in areas surrounding the concentration camps that swore after the war that they had no idea what was going on in their backyards (as if the smell of rotting and burning flesh isn't and obvious give away!!) and FDR's New Deal Programs helped to pull us out of the Great Depression as opposed to Hoover who didn't try to help the unemployed and starving people that were being thrown from their homes!
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This is an exam-like quesion. Anyway, I believe that Hitler was overinflated and he bursted.
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"Instead of working to achieve power by armed coup, we shall hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the opposition deputies. If outvoting them takes longer than outshooting them, at least the results will be guaranteed by their own constitution. Sooner or later we shall have a majority, and after that- Germany." Adolf Hitler spoke these words in 1920, soon after becoming leader of the newly named National Socialist German Workers'' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party. There are many contributing factors which lead to Hitler''s gain in power over the next thirteen years. The recent history of post-war Germany, and the events that would follow were of perfect conditions for the rise of an extremist party such as the Nazis. World War One had left Germany in defeat. Germany was put under immense pressure by the treaty of Versailles, which contributed to the disastrous and politically unstable early twenties. Hitler was a strong and manipulating character, with extraordinary leadership skills and his party was very tactical. He was very much underestimated by opposing political parties. He seized his opportunity to gain power in the years of the depression. This essay will review these conditions in Germany which lead to Hitler and his Nazis'' becoming the sole political party in the Reichstag in 1933.\n\nThe German Empire was formed in 1871 and soon became one of Europe''s most influential countries. It dominated in industrial and military power, and the German people were proud of their achievements. Up until the end of World War One, Germany was ruled by a Kaiser. From 1888 the Kaiser was Wilhelm II. He was very ambitious and militaristic and a threat to other countries. The German people were very accustomed to success, and when Germany was defeated in World War One, they were shocked and angry. It was a condition for peace that the Germans got rid of the Kaiser and become democratic. A new constitution was drawn up, called the Weimar Constitution. This constitution was genuinely democratic but had some weaknesses that made it harder for the Republic to cope. A president ruled with a chancellor and proportional representation in the Reichstag. Proportional representation made the Republic weak in that parties were very uncooperative. No party could get a majority, so the government had to be run by coalitions. There could never be a strong government. The president had too much power over the government and could turn himself into a dictator. This was made possible by Article forty-eight in the constitution which stated that in an emergency, the president could make laws without going first to the Reichstag. The Social Democratic Party, or SPD, was the largest party in the Reichstag in the early years of German democracy. It was the only party which held strong support for the Weimar Republic. A lot of the disasters which happened in the early stages of the republic was blamed on the SPD by extremist groups like the German Communist Party, or KPD and the Nazi party. The Nazi Party gained support from the German people through blaming the SPD and the KPD for disastrous events. And there were plenty of things to complain about. The Versailles Treaty, drawn up by leaders of Allied parties after the first World War was very hard on the Germans. They faced territorial losses- more then thirteen percent of Germany was taken by Allied countries, and their most productive industrial territory, the Rhineland, was occupied by allies. Overseas colonies were taken too. Germany was forced to pay reparations for damage caused by the war. The term for peace that the Germans most resented was article two hundred and thirty-one which blamed Germany for the war. The German people were angry and bitter, looking for someone to blame. Extremist groups gave them someone to blame, the new government. During this time there were attempted uprisings from both the extreme left and right of the politi
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Let's clarify a little bit things out. \n\nItaly and Germany originally didn't have the same goals. But the reason leading the two populations to endorse the two dictators were similar. \n\nGeneralized economic, political and social crisis in both countries and a lack of a strong capable political class able to tackle with problems in a serious and efficient way gave an opportunity to Hitler and Mussolini to gain more and more followers with some main differences between the two leaders.\nHitler had racial purification in his agenda since the beginning; some say Hitler was mentally insane when he conceived the systematic extermination of Jewishes while others state that Hitler's project to exterminated Jewishes fell within a precise plan aimed at stopping Jewishes from gaining increasing economic and political influence (they were slowly and silently taking over the country as they owned banks and were deeply involved in politics). Germany in that period was undergoing a serious crisis with a lot of unemployment while jewishes appeared very thriving which made it easier for Hitler to focus the hatred of the starved population towards them, as well as against all handicapped people, gipsies (eastern european origins, mainly from Romania) etc etc.\n\nAs to Mussolini, in his agenda Racial Purification was never considered till he joined Hitler. \nThe original goals of Mussolini were\n1) Deep political reforms aimed at evening the social inequalities\n2) Deep economic reforms (agriculture and industry) aimed at turning ITaly in a totally self-sufficient country (Autarchy)\n3) Expand its colonies (Ethiopia, Lybia, Somalia)\n4) Improve the image and the "weight" of Italy in Europe.\n\nHe did manage to implement a lot of his goals: \nCriminality in Italy dropped to almost 0%, with Mafia being non existent.\nHe reclaimed many marshes in several parts of Italy turning them into fertile lands that still today provide most veggies and fruits to the rest of Italy\nHe promoted an intense enhancement campaign aimed at modernizing agricultural equipment \nHe build from scract several new towns in places like Sardinia, populating them also with people from other regions (like in the case or Arborea in Sardinia, populated by Mussolini with people from Veneto in order to teach Sardinians how to apply the most innovative agricultural strategies).\nIn short, Mussolini's mistake was joining Hitler and his racial plans (we had basically no issues with Jewishes while Hitler did have).\nIn short, the reason why Italians and Germans endorsed the political agendas of these two dictators are the the following:\n1) Critical economic and social situations\n2) Lack of a political class able to tackle with the problems in an efficient way, providing jobs and granting people a decent living standard\n3) In the case of Germany, the increasing power of Jewishes, which clashed with the poverty of Germans, causing fears  (justified, unjustified? who knows) and feeding the rage (which turned into popular consent for Hitler) of millions of people forced on the edge of starvation.\n\nIf you still find it difficult to understand, think of what is going on in the US with Mexicans and in the rest of the world with Muslims and you will understand why people endorsed those actions.
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No.  No sporting event was going to turn back Hitler.  No World Cup Tourney was going to stop Japan from trying to take over the World.  Sometime you gotta put aside diplomacy and kick some ass.
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I have to say no. Hitler was nobody's patsy. His ruthless path to power was strewn by more murders and say what you will, he had an ethos. I think an interesting perspective is that too many people took George Bush seriously and FAR too few took Hitler seriously.  Hitler, a combat veteran decorated witth the Iron Cross as a dispatch runner knew far more about war than GWB ever would. I am not seeing a GWB cult, ( or MUCH of one) , Hitler on the other hand was larger than life and delusional - ( bush is also delusional however ) , and I don't think that HATE is at the core of Bush's being, nor do I see the gleam of fanaticism and meglomania in Bush.   Could Bush ever create anything even close to National Socialism ? \nDid Bush rescue America from a depression and put its citizens to work and does the nation swear alliegance to Bush? \nAlso, can you entertain the idea of Hitlers father having to rescue the Nazi Party / Hitler admin from its foreign policy failures. \nBush is a " LITE" dictator wannabe.  He won't hold a candle to Napoleon, Louis the XIV, Cromwell, Tameraline, Fra Savronola, Mussollini, Julius Ceaser, or even Huey Long. \nHe is a different kind of political insect.   In a way I think his dad is beyond miffed at how badly his son performed when Bush 41 gave Bush 43 the presidency.  Yes there are some parallels but I just don't see the raging narcicissm and egotistical mania of Hitler in Bush. I would love to see the Neocon archetects of his presidency held accountable.  Good question.
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it is germen .germany rocks. hitler sucks.
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If Germany would have known when to stop with it's expansionism, Nazism would probably still be in place.\n    Sucking up a few smaller countries just wasn't enough for the madman Hitler, he had to push his agenda of extermination of the Jews and total world conquest.