... of the most gruesome and barbaric periods of modern history. Well over six million people died per his orders. However, Adolph Hitler can realistically be viewed as an evil hero, because of his contribution to the fields of psychology and medicine. In the wake of the First World War, ... through the ranks of the German government and restore pride and nationality to a country that so sorely needed it. Hitler made people proud to be Germans again, made them proud to go to work each day. He achieved all of this through his understanding of human psychology. Any psychologist could make qui...

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... anyone who opposed would be sentenced to death. Many were tortured, disembodied, and even quickly murdered by a gunshot to the head, or his favorite, decapitation. He was a man with extreme abilities to quickly learn his opponent's weaknesses and turn them into favorable conditions for himself and his position as ruler. Throughout many battles and wars, Hitler managed to create a proud and strong Germany ... history". (pg. 5) After this infamous war, Hitler, along with his numerous concentration camps, was considered and feared and ruthless being. When it came to Hitler's physical appea...

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... restore its glory. When the Second Great War broke out in 1939, Hitler had fulfilled many of his promises while setting the world on a course of death and destruction. Germany was a country built upon its proud military history. Parades, marches, displays of pageantry, and military bands were common sites throughout cities in Germany long before the Prussian Empire. Order, discipline, and ... Communism would soon spread to Germany and began electing representatives of a new party that had emerged. These new politicians began promising the German people that "the perils of Communism would ...

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... such as those, inspired Germans including Hitler, to think of themselves as larger than life and capable of bringing great glory to Germany through both life and death (Thomas, Landry, Bruch, Richard Wagner on the Web). Stevens 3 In addition to German philosophers and artists, Germany, more than any other state in ... was an opportune place for Hitler to come to power. This is one of the few cultures that could have produced such a hateful aggressor. Stevens 4 Not only did Germany's culture help Hitler come to power, but also Germany's social and economic scene in the 1930's was desperat...

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... Nepomuk Hiedler. At age thirteen, Alois ran away from home. He became a full inspector for customs, and the man that raised him was so proud he convinced Alois to have his name changed legally from Schicklgruber to Hiedler. On June 6, 1876, Johann Nepomuck Hiedler and three other relatives made a ... That summer Geli became involved with another young man, and Hitler tried to break up the relationship. Geli locked herself in her room with instructions not to be disturbed. During the night the assistant housekeeper heard a dull alarmed when she found Geli's door still locked. A locksmit...

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... to brainwash the spectators into complying with whatever it was he said. Hitler promised the people of Germany a better life in which they would be proud to call themselves German. Hitler also invested large amounts of money in propaganda posters to persuade the people of Germany to stay loyal to him.7 ... and thought. Hitler turned Germany into an extremely aggressive country capturing countries or intimating them enough to become a part of Germany. If it were not for Hitler's harsh tactics and relentless attacks on their surrounding countries, World War II could have been avoided.10 Be...

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... the front lines and at headquarters, He was wounded in the leg in 1916 and gassed in 1918. Hitler believed that he was making a better life for himself and was proud to serve in the German army of which he admired so much. Interestingly enough the regimental captain that recommended him for the award was Jewish. Being gassed during a British attack ... had a second blindness but surprisingly enough cried for the first time since standing in front of his mother's grave in Leonding, Austria. He had endured the death of his comrades, injuries to himself, and blindness .....all in silence. ...

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... peace, and laid the groundwork for the armistice. Though the United States contributed significantly towards ending the war, Wilson's main concern was peace, not annexing German colonies or holding them responsible for war debt. However, as the peace discussions commenced, the European Allies denounced Wilson's idealistic approach. ... , Robert Lansing, described the German representatives as they signed the treaty: It was if men were being called upon to sign their own death-warrants With pallid faces and trembling hands they wrote their names quickly and were then conducted back to th...

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... with his lover Rudy in tow, refusing a ticket to safety in Holland because there isn't a second one for Rudy, yet ends up unwillingly beating him to death on the cattle train to Dachau. If he hadn't killed Rudy the officers would have killed Max. He blames himself for Rudy ... 's death even though he had no choice, page 61 Max says "You know who loved me? That boy. That dancer, I don't remember his name. But I killed him. See - ... proclaimed homosexual, knows this but still wears the pink triangle. He is not afraid of being gay, even in prison. Horst is proud of who and what he is so do...

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... Nazis attracting more and more votes in the elections (appendix), President Hindenburg had to appoint Hitler as Chancellor on 30th January 1933. Although not in total control yet, the Nazis showed what they were capable of doing by establishing the first concentration camps and imprisoning political opponents ( ... and a person's life. A totalitarian state is usually led by a dictator, which is "above" the law and has the power over life and death. In such a state common good is placed over individual good, opponents are ruthlessly prosecuted and the armies as well as the police forces se...

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... Beethoven. Although he lived a century prior to Hitler, he remained very well loved by the German people. Beethoven's music was powerful and proud, traits that the Germans could relate to. Hitler felt that Beethoven exemplified the true heroic spirit of Germany. Hitler played upon the sentimentality of ... to Wagner. Hitler thought that Bruckner was a fine example of what a musician should be, not only for his talent as a musician, but also due to his great love for Germany. When the news of Hitler's death was announced, a movement from Bruckner's Seventh Symphony was played in honor of t...

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... clever and devious in his own way, knew how to deal with this problem. In a true Machiavellian fashion of eliminating any dissenter that could not be "swayed" to understand the "glorious new ways" Mussolini formed organized gangs called "The Blackshirts". These men would deal with troublemakers of the general ... theme of rebuilding everything lost in the Great War Mussolini built his empire on promises of nationalism in country full of nationalists with nothing to be proud of until he came along. The people were ready for a strong leader following the war, they were ready for nationalism...

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... he had long held deep respect. Despite the enmity of the war Hitler said on December 10, 1919: "As a people the Englishman has reason to be proud." Though he had only a year earlier been fighting the British, Hitler believed that both peoples came from Aryan stock, far superior to Slavic Russians and ... To this end he sided with the Wermacht against his own vastly numerically superior SA.(3) The German that would subjugate France and conquer territory in the East would not be a rowdy brown shirt, but rather a well trained and disciplined soldier. In an address to prominent members of th...

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