... world into which they were born. Their careers were possible only in the new world created by the breakdown of the old order in Europe, as a result of the First World War-of the defeat first of tsarist Russia, then of the Central Powers, and the revolution that followed"(Bullock, Alan). From the way they were raised, their rise to power and the way they ruled ... citizenship to enlist in the German army. He was placed in the 16th Bavarian Infantry Regiment. Hitler would not fight for Austria but was willing to die for Germany. By 1917 he was promoted to lance corporal and won an Iron Cr...

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... open territory, populated by racially inferior Slavic peoples. According to Hitler's thinking this fact would make the eventual war of conquest against Russia a relatively simple undertaking: "The gigantic empire in the East is ready to collapse." In Hitler's view the October revolution had merely given the Slavic masses a new ruling class, because they were unable to rule themselves anyway. Their ... compromised through intermarriage with lesser races especially blacks. This mongrelization of the French racial stock had weakened it considerably, as could be seen in 1917 with the almost ...

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