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Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, a town in what is now Austria, on April 20, 1889.
National Socialist Germany Workers Party or NSDAP. The shortened version of the name was the Nazi Party. Hitler had designed their banner, which consisted of a swastika in a white circle with a red background.
He took advantage of the dire consequences in Germany as a result of the US stock market crash on October 24, 1929.
With moderate political parties in Germany increasingly unable to control extremist elements, the NSDAP was able to rise from obscurity to win 107 parliamentary seats in the 1930 election.
“Never in history has such ruination – physical and moral – been associated with the name of one man”.
“Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes.”
“As a kid, I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.”
“Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.” —Adolf Hitler
Hitler was outraged by the Treaty of Versailles in which Germany had to admit it started the war and was stripped of various territories. It also had to demilitarize the Rhineland; damaging economic sanctions were imposed as well. Hitler wrote that, while he was in the hospital bed, he had the idea that he would liberate Germany and make it great once again.
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.”
"The man who is born to be a dictator is not compelled. He wills it. He is not driven forward, but drives himself. There is nothing immodest about this. Is it immodest for a worker to drive himself toward heavy labor? Is it presumptuous of a man with the high forehead of a thinker to ponder through the nights till he gives the world an invention?
Hitler divided humans into three categories based on physical appearance. He declared the Aryan race as biologically and culturally superior to other races. He described Aryans as fair-skinned, blond, and blue-eyed. Jews and the Slavic people of Poland, Russia, and what is the now the Czech Republic formed the most racially inferior group.
Hitler was a gifted speaker, powerful and spellbinding, and he attracted a large following of Germans who were, by that time, desperate for change. He promised them a better life and that Germany would once again be a great country. The Nazi Party had great appeal among the lower middle class and the poor, the support of whom boosted the party to prominence.
“I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.”
