Why was Adolf Hitler, so extreme in his veiws and force his people to commit terrible atrocities?
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His major psychological problems made him a control maniac. he loved calling the shots and having people jump at his command. he loved telling people what to do and watching them forced to follow his command. power addicted. his insanity hurt him later in the war when he refused to listen to his generals advice and he made some rather terrible decisions. These bad calls cost him the war. Thank God. ego maniac
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Adolf Hitler  (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, number of victims is commonly cited as about 11 million people, including about 6 million Jews.\n\nIn the final days of the war, at the age of 56, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin, together with his newly wed wife, Eva Braun.\n\nHOLCAUST\nBetween 1939 and 1945 the SS, assisted by collaborationist governments and recruits from occupied countries, systematically killed about 11 million people, including about 6 million Jews[4], in concentration camps, ghettos and mass executions, or through less systematic methods elsewhere. Besides being gassed to death, many also died of starvation and disease while working as slave labourers. Along with Jews, non-Jewish Poles (over 3 million of whom died), alleged communists or political opposition, members of resistance groups, homosexuals, dissenting Roman Catholics and Protestants, Roma, the physically handicapped and mentally retarded, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, anti-Nazi clergy, trade unionists, and psychiatric patients were killed. This industrial-scale genocide in Europe is referred to as the Holocaust (the term is also used by some authors in a narrower sense, to refer specifically to the unprecedented destruction of European Jewry in particular).\n\nThe massacres that led to the coining of the word "genocide" (the Endlösung der jüdischen Frage or "Final Solution of the Jewish Question") were planned and ordered by leading Nazis, with Himmler playing a key role. While no specific order from Hitler authorizing the mass killing of the Jews has surfaced, there is documentation showing that he approved the Einsatzgruppen and the evidence also suggests that sometime in the fall of 1941 Himmler and Hitler agreed in principle on mass extermination by gassing. During interrogations by Soviet intelligence officers declassified over fifty years later, Hitler's valet Heinz Linge and his military aide Otto Gunsche said Hitler had "pored over the first blueprints of gas chambers."\n\nTo make for smoother intra-governmental cooperation in the implementation of this "Final Solution" to the "Jewish question", the Wannsee conference was held near Berlin on January 20, 1942, with fifteen senior officials participating, led by Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann. The records of this meeting provide the clearest evidence of central planning for the Holocaust. Days later, on February 22, Hitler was recorded saying to his closest associates, "we shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jew".\nHitler committed suicide in the Führerbunker on April 30, 1945 by means of a self-delivered shot to the head (it is likely he simultaneously bit into a cyanide ampoule). Hitler's body and that of Eva Braun (his long-term mistress whom he had married the day before) \n\nSo my friend he was not a good man
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Some people still like hitler but that does not make him a hero.\nMilosevith case is same.
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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 a Germany facing crisis after World War I. Using propaganda and charismatic oratory, he was able to appeal to the economic need of the lower and middle classes, while sounding resonant chords of nationalism, anti-Semitism and anti-communism. With the establishment of a restructured economy, a rearmed military, and a totalitarian fascist dictatorship, Hitler pursued an aggressive foreign policy with the intention of expanding German Lebensraum ("living space"), which triggered World War II when Germany invaded Poland. At the height of its power, Nazi Germany occupied most of Europe, but it and the Axis Powers were eventually defeated by the Allies. By then, Hitler's racial policies had culminated in a genocide of approximately eleven 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 with his newlywed wife, Eva Braun.
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well, hitler was the hero of his time (so people thought) he tricked and lied about what was gonna happen to the jewish people. it's very sad, but then, people didnt know better.
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I'm sure you can tell by the previous posts that he "hurt" more than he ever could have hoped to help. His goals were to purify the German people (so to speak) and bring them out of a sorry state post WW1. But, if you call that help, I suppose mass murder and conquest would be is the way to go. Perhaps you should ask the question in an other way, I"m sure you couldn't have truly meant 'help' through containment camps.
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The Popes during the Dark Ages were driven to slaughter others because they were 'different'. They believed they were doing God's work so they felt no guilt or remorse. Hitler was driven to slaughter others because he was crazy. He also felt no guilt or remorse. The actions of those early Popes were equal to those of Hitler, their motives were also the same. Education, not Religion, is the answer to the intolerance people have toward each other. We must also remember that Hitler did not act alone, he had tens of thousands of helpers, all of whom were 'Christians'.
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Germany was in a serious economic depression, they'd been beaten in WWI, and the people were looking for someone who would get back their pride. Hitler said the right things to them... that they were better than anyone else in the world, that they could conquer everyone, and that they had been beaten before because their German characteristics were being diluted by outsiders.\n\nHe said that the only way to purify the race was to get rid of anyone who was "inferior." The Jews were a handy scapegoat because they were different and they were a minority group. Once Hitler had enough people on board, he pointed them to their common enemy (the Jews) and gave them a common goal -- to kill the Jews, along with anyone who was retarded, physically crippled, or otherwise "inferior" - including gypsies, Poles, and other groups. The Jews probably suffered the most -- Hitler produced movies that depicted them as rats infesting the country. But others suffered as well.\n\nThis is one reason we have to resist discrimination because it turns people into "objects." When we look at groups of people as "objects," it becomes easy to hate them.
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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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Hitler first hated the Jews because he was, of course, mentally ill.  He blamed them for the defeat of WW 1, and a host of other societal ills.  Then, once he had detained the Jews in prison camps, he hated them even more because they refused to be defeated...even by death.  The following explanation says it all:\n\nIt was written by a French author, Jon DeBileda, during the latter part of the 19th Century.\n\n\n"In essence the Jewish people chuckle at all forms of anti-Semitism. Think all you want and you will not be able to find one form of brutality or strategy that has not been used in warfare against the Jewish people. I cannot be defeated, says Judaism. All that you attempt to do to me today has been attempted 3,200 years prior in Egypt. Then tried the Babylonians and Persians... Afterwards tried the Romans and then others and others....\n\nThere is no question that the Jews will outlive us all. This is an eternal people...."
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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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You should explain how everybody in Germany was afraid and starving and the Hitler came along and said all their problems were because of the Jews.  Then after awhile, the people of Germany saw that Hitler was actually bad but then they were too afraid of Hitler and the SS to stand up to them.   Hitler was the same as a school bully who picks on a few kids and no one else has the courage to stop him.
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God gave us free will to make our own choices.Hitler had the same free will we all have.What he chose to do with it, was his free choice. I might guess that God was not liking what was happening, but had to allow it to happen.
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Adolf Hitler - Nazi dictator of Germany (1933-45), planned and started World War 2, committed suicide at the end of the war. \nGeneral Hideki Tojo - Prime minister of Japan (October 1941 - July 1944). With a long militarist tradition, Japan became extremely militarist and aggressive in the 1930s and was practically governed by military leaders. Tojo, an aggressive army General, became minister of war in July 1941 and prime minister in October 1941. After a short attempt to improve relations with the US failed, he ordered to go to war and attack Pearl Harbor in December 1941. He gradually took more ministerial roles, and in Feb. 1944 also made himself the commander in chief, like Adolf Hitler did. When he realized that Japan was going to lose the war he resigned. The military continued to control Japan until the end of World War 2, which came when the Emperor Hirohito which was until then passive, ordered to surrender in order to prevent further inevitable destruction of Japan. After the war Tojo was executed for his responsibility to Japan's war crimes. \nBenito Mussolini, was the prime minister of Italy (1922-1943). A former journalist, he went to politics and formed the Fascist party, whose ideology, Fascism, called for a one-party state, total obedience, patriotic nationalism, and aggressive militarism. The ideology and its implementation in Mussolini's Italy influenced Adolf Hitler's own ideology, Nazism, which was a combination of Fascism with extreme racism. Initially Mussolini led a right-wing coalition, but later Italy became a one party state. His treatment of unemployment made Mussolini popular, but the military aggression of Fascism led to its failure. Mussolini was eager to demonstrate the "strength" of his regime by invading weaker neighbors. In 1935 he invaded and occupied the peaceful Ethiopia from Italy's nearby colony in East Africa. In 1936, the two Fascist dictators, Hitler and Mussolini, signed an alliance. In 1939 he invaded and occupied his small neighbor Albania, and Mussolini then enhanced his alliance with Hitler to a full military alliance. Mussolini knew that his military was not very effective, but when the Germans defeated the French and British forces in mid 1940 he thought it was safe enough for him to attack Britain and the collapsing France too and declared war, and in October 1940 he also invaded Greece, and was repelled. Mussolini had a million soldiers in Libya, and he sent them to attack the small British force in Egypt. The Italian Navy and Air Force attacked British ports and shipping in the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar in the West to Haifa (Israel) in the East. Despite its numerical strength and the fact that British forces in the Mediterranean were greatly outnumbered and very stretched, the Italian military could not defeat them anywhere, and was severely beaten by the British, and simply had to call for the help of the much more capable Germans. Even with German help, the British forces only lost their positions in Greece and kept fighting fiercely from their island bases in Malta, Gibraltar, and in North Africa. Mussolini's Italy became a German puppet, and even sent troops to participate in Germany's invasion of Russia. Eventually, British and American forces eliminated the Italian and German forces in North Africa and followed in July 1943 with an invasion of Sicily in South Italy. It was clear that Italy was losing the war, so several days after the invasion Mussolini was replaced and arrested in a remote mountain castle. Hitler sent commandos to rescue his friend from captivity. In April 1945, when German defence in North Italy collapsed, Mussolini was captured by Italian partisans and executed . \nThe defenders\nWinston Churchill kept warning of the Nazi danger in pre-war years. He was elected prime minister of Great Britain after the total collapse of the appeasement policy of his predecessor Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain failed to understa
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Hitler was incredibly smart but also incredibly narrow minded, and he underestimated the will of people to survive. He thought that there was one supreme race, and didn't see that we as people as a whole have incredible will to survive against the worst odds. Its a human trait, not a racial one.\nWhat brought Hitler down was his inability to see that.\nAlso I don't look at him as an idiot, he was just another man who didn't have the right role models growing up and didn't know any better. I mean he had a brilliant mind, he just chose to use his powers for evil instead of good.
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When he was a child ,he lived in a Jewish communities,people treated him and his family badly.\nWhen he was a soldier ,he had done a mission successfully but the officer did not give him a metal  as promised and laughed at him,the officer was a Jews.\nWhen the German soldiers fought hard in the front,some Jews politician and wealthy business man pushed the King excel to Switzerland and the unfair treaty singed.\nActually ,there were multiple reasons German lost the War and he disliked the Jews,was trying to kill all Jews because of their beliefs and he felt that Jews were not as good as Germans and after the War,Germans were suffered from the unfair treaty,he was using their anger to crabed the power,Jews were that " GOAT ".
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Hitler was a good guy