Hitler's Assignation to Dante's Inferno
Throughout history, there have been many people whose actions on Earth should have reserved them a place in the worst circles of Hell. A number of them have already appeared in Dante’s work, but so many more have entered and left this world since the time when Dante was writing. The worst among them is someone who is so horrible, that even the mere mention of his name brings images of pain and suffering to those who here it. He is Adolph Hitler. He is someone who has committed so many horrible actions in his life that he has earned himself a place among the traitors at the lowest circle of Hell. While some might think that the ninth circle is too harsh of a punishment for Hitler, it is not.Starting from the second circle of Hell, one can prove why Hitler belongs frozen in ice among the worst human beings that once lived on Earth. When Hitler would have reached the outskirts of the second circle of Hell, reserved for the lustful, he would have encountered Minos, the monster that assigns souls to their respective circles. Although Minos would have immediately sent Hitler to the ninth circle, it is still helpful to consider why he would have belonged in other circles had his actions in life not been as horrible as they were. When
Next, he would have moved into the fifth circle of Hell, where the wrathful live. While it has never been documented what was going on in the mind of Hitler previous to and during his reign of terror in Europe, there is no arguing the fact that he was consumed by anger towards something or someone. Hitler used his anger towards his situation in life in order to promote anger and loyalty in his followers. Fate seemed to smile on him after World War 1, when many Germans were upset with the outcome of the war. As has been stated earlier, Hitler used the fact that the Germans were being “persecuted” by the Allied forces in order to gain a following. He also appealed to the youth of Germany who disagreed with the authorities wishes to reverse the Treaty of Versailles and regain the land Germany had lost. Hitler claimed this was ridiculous, because the land should only be regained in the same way it was lost—by force. Going hand in hand with his lust for power was the fact that Hitler was a glutton, a sin rewarded by an eternity in the third circle of Hell. Once Hitler received some of the power he lusted after so dearly, he became even hungrier for it. Soon, he was invading countries that had not offended to him, like Belgium, simply for the sake of having more people to rule and oppress. He also began to punish people that had no place in his original ideas while he rose to power. While building the Nazi party up, Hitler talked about saving Germany from the Weimar Republic (the people in charge at the time), and he also believed in saving Germany from the Jews, whom he equated with Germany’s economic ruin. By the end of his rise to power and the very beginning of the events that led up to World War 2, Hitler started a program that granted marriage licenses only to people who were able to prove that they had a “clean” background, that is, an ancestry that stood up to the Nazi party’s idea of “good”. Also, Hitler decreed that all men and women who might have “unclean” offspring were to be sterilized. By 1945, over 400,000 people had been sterilized in an effort to control the next generation of Germans. The eighth circle of Hell, punishment for those who committed ‘usual fraud’, is divided into ten pouches, each sin slightly worse than the one before. Surprisingly, most of the pouches do not contain sins that Hitler is guilty of committing. Starting with the sixth pouch, Hitler would have encountered the hypocrites. Hitler
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