Hitler’s rise had indeed been one of history’s great political success stories. The unknown and uneducated soldier of WW1, who had been a failure in all his undertakings, had come to power in 1933 in a country that despaired of solving it’s social and political problems.

Hitler was appalled and shocked by the German defeat in World War 1 and the proclamation of a republic. Hitler determined to take up political work in order to destroy a peace settlement (treaty of Versailles) that he denounced as intolerable. He joined the tiny German Worker’s Party (later renamed Nazi) in 1919, this was the group that Hitler would transform into one of the most effective political movements of modern history. He did largely through the force of h

In the biography, ‘The Psychopathic God, Adolf Hitler’ by Robert G.L. Waite, it studies the psychopathological personality of Hitler. It contains extensive information on Hitler’s life, his tastes, fears, beliefs, behavior and compulsions. When reading the biography, the author defends Hitler when other authors who called him a ‘…a violent megalomaniac…’ or simply a ‘ a crazy neurotic’ because the author thinks the judgements are irrational. The author praises Hitler’s overall accomplishments in the field of politics, saying that he is “a consummately skillful political leader of high intelligence.”

He tried unsuccessfully to seize power of Germany in the Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923; this event made him known to the general public. He was imprisoned for 9 months where he wrote his controversial biography Mein Kampf (my struggle), in which he condemned the democratic government and expressed his hate and fear of Jews.

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