Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Radical, And Normal Analysis

Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Radical, and Normal? Hitler is known mostly for the villainous ideas or actions, but what many don't know is at the time of his era his ideas were considered ordinary. When Hitler was younger he was a smart child who only did well in classes that interested him. He was surrounded by lots of anti-Semitism, racist ideas, and even rebellious acts against the government during his lifetime. Adolf Hitler defined society by having a considerable interest in German Nationalism, influencing the scared people of Germany, and even blaming the errors of their society on Jews to gain support and spread his ideas. Hitler had a considerable interest in German nationalism. When he was young, he had seen the many ways of how he believed …show more content…
He got people to believe his ideas by using the failing economy to scare them into believing in him and promising a better life for them. The author states “But the Nazis thrived on crisis and chaos, and when the world economic situation began to rapidly deteriorate after the 1929 New York stock market crash, they were well prepared to attack what was still a fragile German democracy” (Baughman). The author describes how they were able to use the crisis and chaos to gain support which he used to his advantage. Hitler used the failing economics as a way for people to believe him and he was able to shift the blame onto the government and made more people believe him. Hitler used the scared and massively unemployed people in a time of crisis and chaos as a way to make people support …show more content…
Hitler used the fall of their economy as a way to blame the Jews that were already hated by most Germans as a way to gain support. “After Germany's capitulation in 1918 and the subsequent signing of the humiliating Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Hitler was one of a great many Germans left searching for a scapegoat to blame for the defeat. He soon found solace in like-minded political groups that singled out "international Jewry," Communists, and the new German government” (The Holocaust). The author points out how the Germans went looking for a scapegoat to blame, so he chose an already singled out part of the population called the Jews that he could blame for the many errors in their government. He was able to blame them because of the scared people looking for someone to blame and they were already a disliked group of people that went through many years of anti-Semitism for “infiltrating the pure European population”(The Holocaust). Hitler was able to blame the Jews for the country's problems because Jews were an already disliked group of people and many people were looking for someone to put the blame