The Only Dead Man Still Feared

Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in 1889. He killed himself only 56 years later. In those 56 years on this green earth he changed history forever. His spot in history will be tainted forever. Before moving to Germany, Hiter was an artist. He moved to Germany in 1913 and after being in WWI, he joined the National Socialist (Nazi) Party. He was appointed chancellor in 1933 and became complete dicatator the following year. He then began to radically change Germany by creating ghettos and concentration camps. After it was all said and done, Hitler and his Nazi Party had killed nearly six million Jews. Many ask what sparked Hitler to do such brutal and disgusting things. We have a few pieces of evidence to help us understand this sick and vile man. These reasons were represented in the article I read in Time Magazine titled Adolf Hitler. The author, Elie Wiesel, explained, "We think we know everything about the nefarious forces that shaped his destiny: his unhappy childhood, his frustrated adolescence; his artistic disappointments; his wound received on the front during World War I; his taste for spectacle, his constant disdain for social and military aristocracies; his relationship with Eva Braun, who adored him; the cult of the very death he feared; his lack of scruples with regard to his former comrades of the SA, whom he had assassinated in 1934; his endless hatred of Jews, whose survival enraged him--each and every phase of his official and private life has found its chroniclers, its biographers." All of these reasons are given to sympathize with Hitler. Well I don't buy it for one second. Everyone has problems. There is not one person in this world who is perfectly content. He is the worst man ever to live. He ended six million innocent lives. He felt Jews didn't deserve to live. He felt that Jews were not human. This concept is represented in the begining of Maus when the author displays for us, "The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but theey are not human." For this exact reason, Art Spiegelman depictes all Jews as mice and all German as cats. In the article I read the author also discusses Hitler's sucess and how compared to other leaders in his time such as Mussolini and Franco; Hitler was far more sucessful. He was able to convert an entire nation: economically, judicially, educationally, and industrially. Sadly, not only was Hitler crazy, however he also was smart. He used his intelligence to gain power of Germany and later Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic countries. Others ask how so many people were fooled and tricked by Hitler's propaganda tricks and why so many people let what was going on happened. And the answer to this is that many people were fooled with his false sense of hope, others were scared away by the S.S. and gustapo, and finally some tried to stop all of this but their attempts were too feeble to affect the Fuhrer. The main point that I think is important for everyone to understand is that Hitler was a paranoid who when received power ran with it a lot farther than any sane person would. The sad thing is that Hitler knew what to do with this power and how to convert non-believers. His main tactics were hope and fear. The scariest thing is that not only do I and many others still fear Hitler but I believe our world has not moved on from this horrific event. A perfect example of our modern day Hitler is Obama. He has used what I believe is false hope to win over our country and also instilled fear in our citizens of what republicans would do if elected. I am not completely against Obama, however I think he may be leading us down the wrong path as a nation. I know that Obama will not do anything like Hitler did I just hope he doesn't do anything to ruin his spot in history like Hitler did.