Adolf Hitler Essay

Adolf Hitler was the German dictator during the Third Reich, the period of history from 1933 to 1945 in the European superpower of Germany. Hitler, who was part of the Nazi political party, had two major goals as dictator. He wanted the German race, which he believed was superior to all other races, to be free of the 9 million Jews in Europe. Hitler also wanted more living space for the German race to expand. With these major goals, a World War was bound to set off. The first goal of Adolf…

World War II officially began on September 1, 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Poland. However, the War of Ideas that Hitler and the Nazis launched had begun much earlier, when he began to censor and destroy literature that did not hold true to the Aryan race. In an attempt to unify the nation of Germany under one ideal, he burned millions of books. While just a short time later, America became unified by a contradictory approach. Instead of everyone being forced to agree to one ideal, they…

of belonging. Declaring the supremacy of the Aryan race made Germans feel special and confident. Using Anti-Semitism to blame Jews for the downfall of Germany in the 1920s gave people a scapegoat. The cult built around the Fuhrer was a tool to make Hitler a god-like figure. The Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in Germany was the instigator of all official information. Censorship was on one of its major tools and gave it total control over what people saw and…

haunted by the ghost of Adolf Hitler, and scarred by the horrible crimes committed under Nazi rule. However, in the twelve years of the rise and fall of the Third Reich, there were those who struggled to oppose oppression. Brave men and women who risked their lives, suffered unspeakable torture, and shed their blood in the service of conscience (Singer, McQuarrie, & Adler, 2008). The film Valkyrie sheds new light on a little known chapter on World War two history. By 1937, Hitler and his Nazi…

and lastly brainwashing and manipulating those same masses in the late-30s. Propaganda is more than a useful tool used to slam an opponent. Propaganda is a weapon capable of leading a nation to murder millions of innocent people. For those reason, Hitler and the Nazi party are the best example of how to effectively and efficiently use…

Leni Riefenstahl’s work in Triumph of the Will offered an idealized image of the Nazi party and Adolf Hitler. Throughout the documentary, Riefenstahl offers a positive representation of the Nazi government during the Sixth National Socialist Party Congress and as they interact with the German citizens. The score is kept consistently upbeat, and positive as Hitler is shown in the film, this reinforces that this is someone that the viewer should like. Riefenstahl used setting and…

Party was advantageous in its appeal to a hurting nation. Rudolf Hess Deputy Fuhrer said “Hitler is Germany and Germany is Hitler”, perhaps implying that the two are inextricably linked. Interestingly Adolf Hitler was not born in Germany but Braunau, Austria in 1889. Hitler was the son of Alois Hitler and Klara Hitler. Alois worked as a shoe maker and wanted Adolf Hitler to follow in his footsteps but Hitler wanted to be…

completely surrounded by the Russian Army.” Brenda Stalcup stated in the book, Adolf Hitler (193). Hitler believed that since the Jews won World War 1, He thought they were an enemy for all of the Germans everywhere. “Believing he had witnessed ‘the most inhumane cruelty’ of the Versatile Treaty, the floodgates of his long-suppressed, convoluted, and delusional inner world opened. In an outburst of rage over Germany’s defeat, Hitler brought to the surface his latent paranoid condition. He…

performance has been used as a method to unite people from different regions, social classes, races, and gender and sexual identities. Such an instance can be seen in Charles Chaplin’s film, The Great Dictator. Released in 1940, the film satirizes Adolf Hitler in attempts to counter the increasing popularity of nazism during this time. This film is historically important because it makes the audience acknowledge and learn from the past. As well, with the rise of Alt-Right movements, the film’s…

more authoritarian direction, one that they found in Hitler and his National Socialist Party. From 1929 to the early 1930’s, Germans experienced the terrible economic and social effects of the Great Depression, during this time the people lost trust in their government. Adolf Hitler took advantage of this opportunity, and while public discontent was soaring Hitler rose to power, with the Nazi Party winning majority membership in the Reichstag. Hitler became Germany's saviour, his manipulative…