Was Adolf Hitler a revolutionist?
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He was able to create a revolution, so yes - but at the same time, his revolution was completely immoral, inhuman, and did not succeed. He was defeated, however, through his leadership, dictatorship, and manipulative skills he was able to create a revolution.
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It was up to Hitler to ask for forgiveness for his sins.\n\nnobody else can do that for you.
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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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(m)\n\nThe Lead Up to World War 2\nChemical Cartels\nWithout a doubt, a key player in the cause of World War 2 was the powerful Adolf Hitler.  But the major source of Hitler's power came from a chemical cartel called I.G. Farben, (the name is an abbreviation of the complete name: Interssen Gemeinschaft Farben.) The importance of I.G. Farben's support for the Socialist movement was pointed out in a book about the cartel, in which it is stated: "without I.G.'s immense production facilities, its far reaching research, varied technical experience and overall concentration of economic power, Germany would not have been in a position to start its aggressive war in September, 1939."1\n\nBut I.G. Farben had a little-known source of its enormous economic power: Wall Street, U.S.A. "Without the capital supplied by Wall Street, there would have been no I.G. Farben in the first place, and almost certainly no Adolf Hitler and World War II."2\n\nI.G. Farben had its beginning in 1924 when American banker Charles Dawes arranged a series of foreign loans totalling $800 million to consolidate gigantic chemical and steel combinations into cartels, one of which was I.G. Farben. Professor Can-oil Quigley terms the Dawes Plan: "largely a J.P. Morgan production."3\n\nThree Wall Street houses, Dillon, Read & Co.; Harris, Forbes & Co.; and National City handled three-quarters of the loans used to create these cartels.\n\nThe importance of LG. Farben to the plans of the German Nazi Party can be illustrated by a product that an I.G. dominated company manufactured. It was called Zyklon B, the lethal gas utilized by the exterminators at Auschwitz, Bitterfeld, Walfen, Hoechst, Agfa, Ludwigshafen, and Buchenwald. (I.G. Farben, being a chemical company even before it was merged with other chemical companies to form the cartel, was also the producer of the chlorine gas used during World War I.) American support for I.G. Farben continued as Henry Ford merged his German assets with those of I.G. in 1928.4\n\nBut the real importance of I.G. to the war efforts of Adolf Hitler came in the utilization of the process known as hydrogenation, the production of gasoline from coal, created by the I.G. Farben chemical cartel. Germany had no native gasoline production capabilities, and this was one of the main reasons it lost World War I. A German scientist discovered the process of converting coal (Germany was the possessor of large quantities of coal) into gasoline in 1909, but the technology was not completely developed during the war. In August, 1927, Standard Oil agreed to embark on a cooperative program of research and development of the hydrogenation process to refine the oil necessary for Germany to prepare for World War II.\n\nAnd finally, on November 9, 1929, these two giant companies signed a cartel agreement that had two objectives:\n\nFirst, the cartel agreement granted Standard Oil one-half of all rights to the hydrogenation process in all countries of the world except Germany; and\n\nSecondly, the two agreed: "... never to compete with each other in the fields of chemistry and petroleum products. In the future, if Standard Oil wished to enter the broad field of industrial chemicals or drugs, it would do so only as a partner of Farben.\n\nFarben, in turn, agreed never to enter the field of petroleum except as a joint venture with Standard."5\n\nThis cartel agreement was extremely important to the war effort, because, by the end of the war, Germany was producing about seventy-five percent of its fuel synthetically.\n\nBut even more significant was the fact that these plants were not the subject of Allied bombing raids, so that, by the war's end, twenty-five to thirty of its refineries were still operating with only about fifteen percent damage.\n\nStandard Oil got into the refining business as well. In fact, William Dodd, the U.S. Ambassador in Germany, wrote the following in his diary about the pre-war
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he was a fascist and Hitlers ally...or didn't you study the Spanish civil war...the Nazis used their Luftwaffe there
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You should speak to Hitler via the usual communication with the dead methods.  He had very similar opinions.  But perhaps he was a better speller!
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Despite the fact that he was a democratic socialist, in the 1930s Shaw approved of the dictatorship of Stalin and even made some ambiguous statements that could be interpreted as being pro-Hitler. In 1945 in his preface to his play Geneva Shaw claimed that the majority of the victims of the Nazi extermination camps had in fact died of "overcrowding". However, he also stated that Hitler had become a "mad messiah" over time: Shaw contrasted this with the situation in the Soviet Union where, according to Shaw, "Stalin... made good by doing things better and much more promptly than parliaments". Shaw also made numerous anti-semitic comments at this time, although the extent to which he was merely being ironic or provocative is unclear. His (un-ironic) pro-Stalin bias is undeniable, however, although it is rarely commented on in discussions of his work. Perhaps the kindest way of looking at Shaw's political position is that he remained in many ways an Edwardian who never fully understood the politics of a totalitarian age. \n\nHe was, of course, an active believer in anti-semetism so although not a supporter of Hitler, certainly didn't see much wrong in the persecution of Jews although at the time the full extent of what Germany did was not known.\n\nThe Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany. After six months of negotiations, which took place at the Paris Peace Conference, the treaty was signed as a follow-up to the armistice signed in November 1918 in Compiègne Forest (which had put an end to the actual fighting). Although there were many agreements to the treaty, one of the more important and recognized agreements required that Germany accept full responsibility for causing the war and, under the terms of articles 231-247, make reparations to certain members of the Allies.\n\nTerms imposed by the Treaty included Germany losing a certain amount of its own territory to a number of surrounding countries, being stripped of all its overseas and African colonies, and its ability to make war again was limited by restrictions on the size of its military. Germany also acknowledged and agreed to respect the independence of Austria. Germany's foreign minister, Hermann Müller, undersigned it on June 28, 1919. The treaty was ratified by the League of Nations on January 10, 1920. In Germany, the treaty caused shock and humiliation that contributed to the collapse of the Weimar Republic in 1933 and arguably, Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
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Adolf Hitler (help·info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.\n\nHitler gained power in Germany facing crisis after World War I. He used charismatic oratory and propaganda, appealing to economic need, nationalism and anti-Semitism to establish an authoritarian regime. With a restructured economy and rearmed military, Hitler pursued an aggressive foreign policy with the intention of expanding German Lebensraum ('living space') and triggered a major war in Europe by invading Poland. At the height of their power, Germany and the Axis Powers occupied most of Europe, but were eventually defeated by the Allies in what became known as World War II. By then, Hitler's racial policies had culminated in the genocide of 11 million people, including about six million Jews, in what is now known as The Holocaust.\n\nIn the final days of the war, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin, together with his newly wed wife, Eva Braun.
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Germany was doing poorly after WWI. They were faced with the entire debt of that war. The economy was falling apart and they needed a strong leader to pull it together. Hitler spoke of socialism, which is a great idea! But, it is impossible because of people's nature. He sold it on that, and got power.
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Adolph Hitler\n\nHitler controlled Germany from 1933–45. His fascist maneuverings for world domination, his dream of a Teutonic master race subjugating all non-Germanic peoples, led to a criminality unmatched by any leader this millennium. Responsible for the genocide of six million Jews, the slaughter of Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, Communists, and other "undesirables" and "decadents," as well as the invasion of Europe and the preposterous ambition to rule the world, Hitler defies any more sophisticated explanation than categorical evil.\n\n\nJoseph Stalin\n\nTotalitarian leader of the U.S.S.R. from 1929–53, Stalin crushed the Soviet peoples with his megalomania and repressive version of communism. His adopted name meant "man of steel," and the term Stalinism has become the definition of a cruel, draconian socialism. He sent millions of Soviets not conforming to the Stalinist ideal to forced-labor camps, and he persecuted his country's vast number of ethnic groups—reserving particular vitriol for Jews and Ukranians. Soviet historian Roy Medvedev estimated that about 20 million died from starvation, executions, forced collectivization, and life in the labor camps under Stalin's rule. Another 20 million survived imprisonment and deportation.\n\nMao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)\n\nA despotic ideologue who controlled China from 1949–76, Mao subjected the Chinese people to his massive social experiments, all of which went catastrophically amok. Early in his reign, he encouraged free speech in an attempt to avoid the mistakes of Stalinism. When criticism of his regime arose, however, his true sentiments—absolute intolerance of dissent and opposition—emerged, and he retaliated savagely. When he launched the Great Leap Forward—his economic plan to forge an industrial revolution in China—it resulted in the worst famine of the century, described as a "totally unnecessary, entirely man-made holocaust that claimed between 23 million and 30 million lives." He then masterminded the Cultural Revolution, which, despite its ideological claim to "purify" communism of bureaucrats and elitists, was a vehicle for settling Mao's personal scores and shoring up power. During the nightmarish decade when culture was equated with depravity, millions—most of whom were guilty of the crime of belonging to the bourgeoisie—were imprisoned, tortured, and murdered as suspected class enemies.\n\n\nPol Pot\n\nRadical Marxist leader of Cambodia from 1975–79, who butchered his own people. The four years of nightmarish Khmer Rouge rule led to the state-sponsored extermination of citizens by its own government. Between 1 million and 2 million people were massacred on the "killing fields" of Cambodia or were worked to death through forced labor. Pol Pot's radical vision of transforming the country into a Marxist agrarian society led to the virtual extermination of the country's professional and technical class—anyone wearing glasses, for example, was murdered. Pol Pot died in 1998 without remorse, declaring, "My conscience is clear."\n\nTamerlane (Timur)\n\nTamerlane's life (c. 1336–1405) was spent conquering the inhabitants of Asia. A Turkik Mongol, his goal was to make his capital, Samarkand, the most impressive in Asia. Yet he rarely stayed at home, preferring to vanquish and destroy additional lands. Legendary for his ruthless savagery and lack of mercy, Tamerlane massacred entire populations—including the 80,000 residents of Delhi— and razed whole cities, leaving behind nothing but rubble. And he had a macabre sense of architecture—building towers out of the skulls of his victims.\n\nMaximillien Robespierre\n\nRobespierre was the mastermind of the Reign of Terror (1793–1794), the dark underside of the French Revolution that perverted its lofty ideals of democracy with fanaticism and inhumanity. Robespierre, leader of the infamous Committee of
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Yes. This is a theory common among conspiracy theorists. Pretty much, it says that the body found in the trenches wasn't that of Hitler (it was never identified, but there were multiple witnessese) or Eva Braun, his lover. \n\nThe idea is that Hitler went to South America, possibly Argentina. Many Nazis left Germany for South America after the war. Buenos Aires in particular was infested for years with Nazis. In fact, many war criminals were captured there by Israelis.\n\nHowever, it is MUCH more likely that Hitler died in Berlin. He shot himself and Eva Braun, and then the SS burned his and her bodies. The end. Happy ending.
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There have been rumours that Hitler was one-quarter Jewish and that his paternal grandmother, Maria Schicklgruber, had become pregnant after working as a servant in a Jewish household in Graz. During the 1920s, the implications of these rumours along with his known family history were politically explosive, especially for the proponent of a racist ideology. Opponents tried to prove that Hitler, the leader of the anti-Semitic Nazi Party, had Jewish or Czech ancestors. Although these rumours were never confirmed, for Hitler they were reason enough to conceal his origins.\nAdolf's strict Catholic upbringing was typical for the region. He served as an altar boy and sang in the choir but was not a practicing Catholic as an adult, though in public discourses he continued to frequently claim he was a Christian.\nHe was the fourth of six children of Alois Hitler (1837–1903), a customs official, and Klara Pölzl, Alois' niece and third wife. Of these six children, only Adolf and his younger sister Paula reached adulthood.\nFrom 1905 onward, Hitler was able to live the life of a Bohemian on a fatherless child's pension and support from his mother.On December 21, 1907, his mother Klara died a painful death from breast cancer at the age of 47. Hitler gave his share of the orphans' benefits to his younger sister Paula, but when he was 21 he inherited some money from an aunt.
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Yes.\n\nThe difference is that Hitler started a war, and then tried to make nuclear weapons.\n\nIran is making nuclear weapons first, then they will start a war.
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Hitler otherwise known as "open4one"
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Nazism was his religion.
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first hitler was not jewish (there are rumors that his grandmother was). Hitler was born in 1889 as a fourth child to a succesfull Austrian customs officer. at the age of fouteen his father died and at the same time he droped out of school. Four years late hitler left for Vienna. IN Vienne Hitler soaked up exterme german antionalism which was strong in vienna (even though it was in austria). these extremeists strongly believed in a uninon with the germans and a violent expolusion of the "infrior" races. Hitler was impressed wit the maoyr of Vienna and his anti liberlism and anti capitalism. From Lueger and other hitler obsorbedmuhc anti-semitism, racism and hatred for the slavs.  He wanted to destroy the jews because of his distorted view of Social Darwinsim (survival of the fitest) believing that with the destruction of the infirior races he insures the survival of the german race. \nANother reason for his hatred were his anti capitalist and anti liberalism views. He cliamed that the hews directed an international conspiracy of finance cpitalism and MArxian Socialism against German colture, german unity, and German race. \nwhen Germany lost World War I, heartbroken, he cliamed that the jews had stabed Germany in the back. He promised to fight back...the Allies and the jews. \nHitler believed in the "aryan race" which was a german supriority of the rest of the world. He believed that the jews, the slavs and many other, would impure the german race. \n\nwriters note: i am a jew, and orthodox one. Today is holocaust momrial day. to day we remeber to never forget the horrible things that happened in Europ during the second world war. But the sad thing is that we ignore these things. IN the 1990's many serbains died in an attempt at genocide and today in Darfur many inocent people, womens and children and being murdered every day with the Sudanian government doing abslutly nothing and even supporting it. MAN CANNOT REPEAT HISTORY!!! NEVER FORGET!!!\n\n"Never again shall we march like sheep to the slaughter\nNever again shall we sit and take orders\nStripped of our culture\nRobbed of our name (never again)\nRaped of our freedom and thrown into the flames (never again)\nForced from our families, taken from our homes\nMoved from our God then burned of our bones\nNever again, never again"\n-----Wu Tang Clan, Remedy  \n\n-David
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In my view, nothing he did pre-war was particularly noteworthy.  The economy lifted out of depression due to the government's exorbitant defense (correction: offense) spending.  So the great economic turnaround of 1930s Germany was thanks to the mass-production of war materiel that could (and would) cause the deaths of millions of people.  Not exactly what I would prefer to spur the economy, and I say that not just because he's Hitler, but because I deplore it when any civilization or nation (including my own) gains in wealth and power at the expense of the lives of innocent people.\n\nAs regards national pride, I believe that national pride contributes to an unhealthy militaristic spirit.  Throughout history, pride in one's nation and one's own kind has led to fear and hatred of that which is foreign or alien.  Only when a people's "national pride" has sufficiently been whipped into a frenzy are those people capable of committing acts of war on that which is foreign to them.\n\nI grant that the German war machine was among the mightiest in history - but so what?  All that effort - the enormous amounts of economic and human capital that went into developing that war machine - wasted in wars of aggression and acts of brutality against those who look or talk or act or believe differently.  Germany could be one of today's superpowers and could have averted the Cold War and the subjugation of millions of people by Communism in Eastern Europe and the misery of millions more in "domino theory" wars around the globe had Hitler not wasted the best and brightest of a generation.