How Did Hitler Become A Serial Killer?

How does having a troubled youth affect you later in life? What causes someone to become a serial killer? Why was Hitler allowed to have power even though he was a serial killer? Hitler’s childhood was very challenging, because his father beat him, he was poor and homeless, and he couldn’t get into Art School. Hitler faced many challenges in his youth, but he was resilient and was able to become strong as he rose to power and eventually helped create the worst Holocaust in history; even though he faced many challenges, he did not give up.
Hitler had a very challenging home life and before he joined the military, he wanted to be an artist. Hitler dropped out of school before he got to high school ("Adolf Hitler"). He also tried to get into …show more content…
Hitler tried to overthrow the German government and was sentenced to 5 years in jail because of it, but he only served 9 months because he was a man of power and he was also treated like he was in a power ("Adolf Hitler"). He was offered chancellor of Germany in 1933 ("Adolf Hitler"). He would remind his generals that he had spent the war in the frontline trenches, while they had remained safely in the back ("Adolf Hitler"). He threatened to leave the Nazi Party if they didn’t make him their leader, because he knew that they were nothing without him ("Adolf Hitler"). After World War 1, Hitler rose to power in the National Socialist German Workers Party, and soon became their leader (History.com Staff). In 1940, Hitler experienced the swift collapse of the French resistance, which gave him an aura of triumph. With that aura of triumph, he got support from a lot of Germany’s military leaders and gave them generous promotions and mass bribery (History.com Staff). Hitler believed that Jews were the greatest enemy and the incarnation of evil. He also believed that the Aryan was the perfect race ("Adolf Hitler"). In order to maintain the perfect race he went to war with France, Britain, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union (History.com …show more content…
Hitler believed that Jews were a threat to the Aryan supremacy and his belief caused him to kill more than 6 million people in the Holocaust. According to History.com Staff, his attack on Poland started World War 2 in 1939. Because of his belief that Jews were a threat, he created concentration camps where he burned, gassed, and worked them to death. Later, he was urged on by Admiral Erich Raeder to seize Norway, and was also urged on by General Erich von Manstein to attack an invade the Low Countries (History.com Staff). Hitler and his wife committed suicide shortly before Germany’s loss in World War 2 (History.com Staff). According to Stephenson, Physician, psychiatrist, and Army major, Leon N. Goldensohn fought his way across France and into Germany as Berlin fell (SIRS). Goldensohn joined the prison staff in January of 1946 to keep watch over the “most celebrated pack of Nazi elite ever captured (SIRS). Two Nazis set for trial, Dr. Leonardo Conti and Robert Ley, hung themselves in their prison cells (Stevenson). Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess was the most notorious, self-confessed mass-murderer to appear before the tribunal (SIRS). Called to the stand on April 15, 1946 as a witness for the defense, Hoess shocked the court and the world’s conscience when he delivered his account of the killings at his command of millions of men, women,