Analysis Of A Child Of Hitler By Alfons Heck

Nazism is an ideology of white supremacists that condoned authoritarian rule and behavior. It has negative connotation due to its history of evil and ignorance that led to the genocide of millions of Jewish people. In Alfons Heck’s book, A Child of Hitler, he discusses the rise of Hitler and reminisces upon his experience under Hitler’s rule. He was a part of the Hitler Youth and eventually became a general of the Nazi party. During Hitler’s rule, Heck’s indoctrination and the social expectations demanded of him crafted him into becoming a servant of Hitler. In writing the memoir many decades later he is alleviating some of the burden of his participation in Hitler’s party by presenting himself as a victim and attempting to gain sympathy from his audience. During these times, obedience was an important trait to have under the rule of Hitler that is if you wanted to live. One either had to obey or be killed on the spot, there was no mercy for those who chose to rebel. Hitler youth trained children to have this fixed mentality of obedience. In the book, Heck described that Hitler was seen as their only hope to take back their rightful land and …show more content…
His position held such great power that he was even asked what it felt like to be God. He was a very young general and they were all trained “to accept the two basic tenets of the Nazi creed: belief in the innate superiority of the Germanic-Nordic race, and the conviction that total submission to the welfare of the state — personified by Führer— was my first duty” these were basic expectation of the servants of Hitler (Heck, 8). At his age, this great power meant a lot to him, he turned a blind eye to the mass extermination of the Jewish because he became obsessed with his role and with Hitler. These social expectations led him to believe that his only purpose was to serve Hitler and obey his commands without questioning, he was a blind