Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria, just near the country's border from Germany. He lived a life in poverty during his childhood and adolescent years. After his parents died, he lived his life alone, working precariously as a painter while transferring from one place to stay to another (HTRC). According to HTRC online, the early life of Hitler is already characterized by the disturbed person that he came to be. Following are some of Hitler's characteristics (HTRC).
A inability to establish ordinary human relationships;
intolerance and hatred both of the established bourgeois world and of non-German peoples, especially the Jews; tendency to passionate, denunciatory outbursts; and a readiness to live in a world of fantasy to escape from his poverty and failure.
Adolf Hitler had been a volunteer soldier in World War I. Being in the military gave him a relief from his poverty and provided him with enthusiasm in war, violence, and politics. After the war, Hitler once again experienced a deprived life until he became an army political agent for the Bavarian military command (Sauer). In 1919, he joined the German Workers' Party (Who2) in an aim to spread nationalism. Hitler soon became the group's leader and renamed the party into National Socialistiche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated as Nazi.
The Rise of Hitler's Power
Although Hitler and the Nazis failed during their first emergence, their power came to rise again in 1933. This was the start of the significant events, though not positive ones, that Hitler made in history. According to Sauer, on Hitler's command,
His rule resulted in the destruction of the German nation-state and its society, in the ruin of much of Europe's traditional structure, and in the extermination of about 6 million Jews.
The organized murder of the Jews made many people around the world view Hitler as an anti-Christ, or worst, as Satan.
Hitler even made laws that promote the extermination of the Jews.
The leadership of Hitler was basically that of a dictatorship in a tyrannical government. In World War II, Hitler and his German military forces made several successes in conquering several nations in Europe such as Belgium, Netherlands, France, Denmark, and Norway. Later though, Hitler's victories were reversed and lost from the war. Depressed by the outcome of his leadership, Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 (Grobman, 1990).
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