can anyone give me some information on hitler?
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http://www.historychannel.com did several documentaries on him and may have more information.  I believe one of his grandparents were Jewish (father's side).  I also know he was a failed artist, a corporal in the German Army in WWI, very into the occult, dispised Christianity almost as much as he did the Jewish faith (the concentration camp/execution squads killed about 6 million of each), was a socialpathic control freak, and very into animal rights and environmental issues.\n\nHe was also an avowed marxist but believed if he controlled people's minds, he didn't need to control their property (The theory behind the National Socialist Movement).  He persecuted German Communists, but only because they were competition.  Hitler actually liked Stalin and conspired with him to destroy Poland in 1939.  He hated the Russian people with a passion though, and also desired the resource rich areas of the Ukrain, Romania (Germany's ally), Moldovia, and the Caususes.\n\nHis micromanagement style in military affairs helped lead to Germany's defeat in WWII.  His intervention in Guderian's attack against France allowed the BEF and Free French forces to escape at Dunkirk.  Hitler's lack of forsight in Africa lead to Rommel eventually running out of supplies and vehicles.  Hitler's interference in the Battle of Britton allowed the UK to repell the air attacks, fortify its islands, and rearm its troops.  His ill timed attack into Russia and interference with Army operations (move the two armies south instead of maintaining momentum to hit Moscow in the late summer) allowed the USSR to recover and go on the offensive.  Hitler's interference, and falling for the Allied deception operations, in Normandy allowed the Allies time to establish a beachhead and overwhelm the Germans with superior numbers.  And finally, his unwillingness to fully mobilize the German economy for war meant his units were often short of supplies.\n\nHitler was sometimes refferred to as the best "ally" the Allies had, militarily speaking.
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http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=hitler%20AND%20mediatype%3Amovies\nhttp://video.google.com/videosearch?q=hitler
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[ Hitler saw active service in France and Belgium as a messenger for the 16th Bavarian reserve infantry regiment. His behaviour as a soldier was considered somewhat sloppy, but he readily volunteered for dangerous missions such as taking dispatches to and from fighting areas. Unlike his fellow soldiers, Hitler reportedly never complained about the food or hard conditions, preferring to talk about art or history. He was twice cited for bravery in action, receiving the Iron Cross, Second Class in December 1914 and the Iron Cross, First Class in August 1918, an honour rarely given to a Gefreiter. During October 1916 in northern France, Hitler was wounded in the leg, but returned to the front in March 1917. He received the Wound Badge later that year, as his injury was the direct result of hostile fire. ]\n\nNow any man who went through that much in a war is a hero to me... no matter what side he is on. \n\nHe was demented... but then he was ambitious too. And i suspect he was like me.. he couldn't stand failure. Especially ones own failures.... No wonder he was slightly off his rocker. \n\nHe saved germany's economy. \n\n[ Hitler oversaw one of the greatest expansions of industrial production and civil improvement Germany had ever seen, mostly based on debt flotation and expansion of the military. The unemployment rate was cut substantially. \nHitler also oversaw one of the largest infrastructure improvement campaigns in German history, with the construction of dozens of dams, autobahns, railroads and other civil works. ]\n\nNow a man like that is defenitely a hero for any nation... \n\n\nHitler was a brave man and a leader second to none... But was he a true Hero? \n\nI DONT THINK ANYONE CAN OR SHOULD ANSWER...
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There were thousands of good decent jews rounded up, put on trains, sent to concentration camps and killed cruelly, heinously!  Nevermind how many. Nevermind those who conveniently "forget".  Hitler  was a dictator who ran Germany.  He was an insane man with senseless prejudices that blue eyed blonds are superior to brunettes and that jews should be annihilated.  Whole families were called to come...they knew not for what.  There were constant calls for certain people. When their names were called they were ordered into one of the buildings, told to disrobe and get into the showers.   If they were lucky, water came through the shower over their head. People who escaped the worst reported that men who ran the showers would play with freezing and boiling water, on people, but this was relatively kind.  When they weren't playing with the water, they had the gas jets on and people were killed.  Trenches were dug. Hundreds of bodies in a spot were thrown in on top of others.  Meanwhile loving family members were separated with no control over it at all.  And their only "crime" might be that they were jewish.  And the dictator, Hitler, in his insanity considered killing jews his right.\nI was an American in my teens living on the east coast, and I met a woman in her 20s with an accent I was unused to. She told me about being in the showers, and about the night she would have been killed in them with gas only she and her boyfriend had a chance to escape on bicycles and they did and they succeeded, and they  came to the United States and got married.  What I know, I "experienced" through her first hand description. But she was rare. Countless thousands of them never had a chance. She was jewish. Since then I have met many people,  a lot of them Germans who emmigrated to this country who insisted  Hitler wasn't so bad, and this mass slaughter did not happen. They were people who never would have been threatened with the ovens,  they were citizens of Germany and whatever they wanted me to believe they felt strongly about it.  It made Germany's fearless leader look bad,  Since then I have seen moving pictures on tv, taken from life --giant piles and thousands of these nude bodies in heaps  thrown from trucks down big slant shoots, and not acted by actors,  this was real. I have seen this repeatedly.  Even while watching this horror I have heard  Americans decide to accept the (fiction) viewpoint and insist everyone around them believe it. People can believe what they want. I value the truth, pretty or ugly.\nPeople like to fictionalize history a great deal, on many sujbjects. \nThey not only fictionalize the truth but they cite a contrived fiction of yesteryear and get multimillions to believe it for political reasons, for $$$ reasons, and aftter a time for majority reasons. And  then if you have a mind of your own appreciate it but keep your own council, unless asked for the truth.\n  That shameful example of Man's inhumanity to man is  in this case, the truth.  Don't let it be swept under a rug and don't let it happen  AGAIN\nagain.
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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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Positive leadership qualities:\n 1. He was determined and focused\n 2. He honestly believed he had the German ppls best \n    interest at heart.\n\n Negative leadership qualities:\n 1. He took away the German ppls free will by forcing them\n    to uphold Anti-Semitic views.\n 2. He decided to play god by taking it upon himself to \n    rid the world of the Jews who in his opinion were "evil"\n\n The negative effects of his leadership:\n 1. The huge number of innoncent lives lost.\n 2. The long term suffering that German would endure as a \n    result of his reign.\n\n The positive effects of his leadership:\n 1. The Soviets and the Democratic world put aside their \n    animosity to unite for a good cause.
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Launching operation barbarosa.... big oops.\n\nD-day... signaled the beginning of the end.\n\nThe failed attemp on Hitler's life... it made him even MORE paranoid and distrustful of his generals.
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Hitler was a Roman Catholic, baptized into that religio-political institution as an infant in Austria. He became a communicant and an altar boy in his youth, and was confirmed as a "soldier of Christ" in that church. The worst doctrines of that church never left him. He was steeped in its liturgy, which contained the words, "perfidious Jew." This hateful statement was not removed until 1961. Perfidy means treachery. \n\n\nHitler was not sure who his paternal grandfather was, but it was probably either Johann Georg Hiedler or his brother Johann Nepomuk Hiedler. There have been rumours that Hitler was one-quarter Jewish [1] 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. Soviet propaganda insisted Hitler was a Jew, though more modern research tends to diminish the probability that he had Jewish ancestors.
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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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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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try Kenneth Burke about Hitler's rhetoric!\n\nafter a difficult childhood he hated everything so much that he wanted to destroy the world
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Otto Skorzeny was a storm trooper extraordinaire.  He was a devoted Nazi through and through and was a favorite of Hitler.  He ran a successful mission to rescue Mussolini towards the end of the war.  He ran infiltration groups dresses as American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge.  He also alledgedly was involved in setting up the Odessa escape organization that helped my Nazis flee Germany and head to South America.  He was not necessarily a very nice guy, but he certainly was the "go to" paratrooper for the Third Reich.  He was called the "Most Dangerous Man in Europe", led a fascinating life, and died of cancer at age 67.
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Here's a bunch of links for you, but in laymen terms, his charsmatic ways and dreams gave the German people, who at the time were in a huge depression, hope and confidence in themselves that they can be someone in world.  This of naive way of thinking, of course, became their downfall.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler\nhttp://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/mcbride/ws200/moss-jewc.htm\nhttp://www.remember.org/guide/Facts.root.hitler.html\nhttp://www.hitler.org/
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You can read his role in the Wikipedia. I give you the link under the source
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Go here, it might help.\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html
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Yes. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. \nHe died on April 30, 1945.\n\nHe 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.
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I am not German, but English. I have read Mein Kampf in German and also the translation into english. You can read in parts how Hitler was a genious in his earlier days, but also the points where his reasoning went slightly astray. ie "Give me an army behind me, a minority to hate and I will rule the world"  Bit like Bush really, come to think of it !!!!