Hitler and Churchill
Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill both rose to greatness in spite of sad and unfortunate childhood experiences. However, the differences in the beginning of their lives led them down very separate roads to their positions of power. For Adolf Hitler, violence from his father spurned hate, which was nurtured by those he admired. This would become the basis of Hitler's motivation as a ruler. For Winston Churchill, the neglect of his parents caused him chronic depression, which he had to overcome in order to accomplish great things and win the praise of a country. However, the praise of the country could never fill the hole left in his heart that yearned for the love of a parent.
Winston's parents had a tight agenda, his mother a socialite and his father a politician. Both were too busy being swept up in their individual lives to give Winston any of their own precious time. Since his birth he was left with his nanny and governess to raise him …show more content…
Despite this, however, Churchill had impeccable insight into how to deal with Hitler continually grasped to preserve his power. Hitler sought to "eliminate the power of Russia being irritated by Stalin, a source of irritation being the Secret Protocol." 12 Essentially, Hitler did not like another seemingly trying to take the power and domination he had grown being used to. Whereas Churchill became more and more disliked because of his approach to Hitler. It seemed per Luckacs that Churchill was slow to act at times against the irrational and swift decision making of Hitler. That is not to say that Churchill did not have "an aggressive strain in [his] character." 13But Hitler was counting on the defensive nature in Churchill in order to "subdue [the British] by force and punish them for waging war against him, a reaction somewhat similar to his treatment of the Poles, whom he brutalized after September 1939."
Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill both rose to greatness in spite of sad and unfortunate childhood experiences. However, the differences in the beginning of their lives led them down very separate roads to their positions of power. For Adolf Hitler, violence from his father spurned hate, which was nurtured by those he admired. This would become the basis of Hitler's motivation as a ruler. For Winston Churchill, the neglect of his parents caused him chronic depression, which he had to overcome in order to accomplish great things and win the praise of a country. However, the praise of the country could never fill the hole left in his heart that yearned for the love of a parent.
Winston's parents had a tight agenda, his mother a socialite and his father a politician. Both were too busy being swept up in their individual lives to give Winston any of their own precious time. Since his birth he was left with his nanny and governess to raise him …show more content…
Despite this, however, Churchill had impeccable insight into how to deal with Hitler continually grasped to preserve his power. Hitler sought to "eliminate the power of Russia being irritated by Stalin, a source of irritation being the Secret Protocol." 12 Essentially, Hitler did not like another seemingly trying to take the power and domination he had grown being used to. Whereas Churchill became more and more disliked because of his approach to Hitler. It seemed per Luckacs that Churchill was slow to act at times against the irrational and swift decision making of Hitler. That is not to say that Churchill did not have "an aggressive strain in [his] character." 13But Hitler was counting on the defensive nature in Churchill in order to "subdue [the British] by force and punish them for waging war against him, a reaction somewhat similar to his treatment of the Poles, whom he brutalized after September 1939."