Hitler Articles

Before he was the sociopathic leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler was an artist, bum, and in some eyes a revolutionary. He was able to gain a tremendous amount of support due to his inspirational speaking and undeniable leadership. He did not, however, always have this power. In the early 1920's, many people doubted his ideals and his conviction to fulfill them. In this article (Alan Stern), he is compared to Mussolini because of his idea to establish a government of German Fascists. This article also says that, "the German republican press assure us that the Bavarian workers will have nothing to do with him or his followers." Oh how they were wrong. Despite all the predictions that Hitler was no more than a t-shirt, Hitler was still able to gain great following. The Republic government was so worried that they banned several of his meetings and processions. Hitler gained this support by linking a common enemy, communism and capitalism, with his own personal enemy, the jews. He linked these two by saying, "The world's capital is Jewish;Marxism is Jewish; Marxism and capitalism are responsible for the desperate straits the world is in, Therefore, Down with the Jews!" Overall, this article described how Hitler would be unable to gain support. The article made it seem like Hitler and his followers were nothing but a bunch of jive turkeys. They said he was less than Mussolini because he lacked conviction and was incapable of definite lines of action. Unfortunately, they were wrong.