Adolf Hitler The Monster Of The Reich
How can a person change his or her own personalities, become a different person, and further make the entire world consider him or her as a monster? It can be the thoughts he has have, the actions he has done, the decisions he has made, or things that have happened in his life. There are many historical people, like Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, etc. are seen as devils because of their ways of dictatorships in their countries. Adolf Hitler is one of them that was considered a monster by the society due to the reason of being a insane leader of Nazi Germany during the period of World War II.
Adolf Hitler, an significant and well known man, was born and raised in a small village in Austria, Europe in 1889 and thought as a monster in people’s minds even till the twenty-first century. There were six children in his family and he was the fourth one. His grandfather was believed that he was a Jewish, but no one could be sure about that even Hitler himself. “As a child, Hitler closed frequently with his emotionally harsh father. Following the death of his younger brother, Edmund, in 1900, Hitler became detached and introverted” (“Adolf Hitler. ”). He loved painting and wanted to put his career in fine arts area but none of his family members supported him.
After both his parents’ death, he went to do what he wanted, moved to Vienna to seek for opportunities. He then faced dilemma, failed the art exams when applying for art schools, and further realized his “anti-Semitism” (“Adolf Hitler. ”) towards the Jewish. In 1913, Hitler moved to Germany for avoiding from the mandatory military service in Austrian army. But he applied to join the German army to do the services and was accepted in 1914. Hitler chose to do this as once said, “the strongest must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness” (Hitler 261). He thought his race was too weak, so he decided to join the German army, betray on his own country and fight against them during the World War I.
German army surrendered, was defeated, and ended the World War I in 1918. “Although Hitler spent much of his time away from the front lines, he was present at a number of significant battles and was wounded at the Somme” (“Adolf Hitler. ”). Hitler escaped from Germany because most of the members in his unit were wounded and killed in 1916, and after one year, he asked to returned because of tiring of getting along with apathetic citizens in Germany. Days after days, as German were becoming more and more collapsed, Hitler became gloomy and sometimes shouted “‘invisible foes of the German people,’ namely Jews and Marxists” (“Hitler in World War I. ”) during the war. It was obvious that he did not like Jewish and those who believed in the philosophy of materialism among the society at that time.
In the end, Germany lost the war and Hitler felt the betrayal from citizens and Marxists and believed that the Jews was the main problem for Germany and did not think they were human beings just like how the other soldiers thought. He decided to do something to prove that Germans were not lacking of powers and alter his actions to Jewish people. “After Germany’s humiliating defeat in World War I and the passage of the economically ruinous Treaty of Versailles, Hitler was able to take advantage of national resentment to come to power, build the German war machine, and launch a new war largely targeted at those he considered weaker than his own race” (Hitler 260). After the war, all Hitler wanted was to prove the world that all the powers were in German’s hands and to killed all the Jews on Earth.
Most important of all, what he had done to the Jews were more serious and crucial things than attending the German army. As Hitler once said, “by the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise” (Hunt), he would do what he wanted to destroy anyone he hated. He also said, “those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of nternal struggle do not deserve to live” (Hilter 264). Since then, he had started to become a monster and had done countless inhumane actions. First of all, he joined the “Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP)” (“Adolf Hitler. ”) as known as the Nazi in 1919. This was a German workers’ party that founded on the ideas of “anti-Semitic, nationalist and anti-Marxist” (“Adolf Hitler. ”).
Slowly, in 1921, Hitler had become a effective person who was able to be the representative to have a speech and try to gain more followers to go against the things he hated. Twelve years later, Hitler had become the Chancellor and the dictator of Germany. He changed the ways of life and the rules of the country into his own ideas. Hitler was crucial to the Jews. “Hitler and his Nazi regime instituted hundreds of Anti-Semitic laws and regulations to restrict and exclude Jews in society” (“Adolf Hitler. ”). He commanded all the Jews, no matter in Nazi Germany or other countries, to enter concentration camps and to work for him until they die. He wanted everyone to follow the laws and said, “the man who misjudges and disregards the racial laws actually forfeits the happiness that seems destined to be his” (Hitler 264).
From the beginning of World War II to 1945, millions of people were dead in Europe. “Among the casualties were nine million people who had died in concentration camps, including six million Jews and three million Communists, Gypsies, homosexuals, disabled persons, and others” (Hitler 260). It was later called “the Holocaust” in which “they were subject to starvation, torture and horrific brutalities, including have to endure gruesome and painful medical experiments (“Adolf Hitler. ”). It was evident that how inhumane Adolf Hitler was.
Adolf Hitler was a powerful dictator during the war period back in the 1930s and 1940s. He had marked and done many significant events in the history and is considered a monster by the people worldwide because of what he did in his life. He was the one who betrayed his own country, wanted to killed Jews, joined the Nazi, treated Jews as nonhumans, and killed millions of innocent people during the Holocaust. Hitler never knew how inhumane and cruel he was.
