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Adolf Hitler's Influence On Anti Semiitarianism

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Adolf Hitler got a lot of his influences on anti-Semitism and revolutionary ideas during his teenage-young adult years. Hitler´s history teacher, Dr. Leopold Potsch, had a way of teaching that showed German nationalism, which inspired Hitler at a young age to have revolutionary ideas. Hitler later recalled about the teacher, ¨And indeed, though [Potsch] had no such intention, it was then that i became a little revolutionary.¨ This shows that Hitler's ideas of revolution were initiated by his teacher unintentionally. In an article by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, it described where he got his influences from while in Vienna: Still in power when Hitler arrived in Vienna, Lueger promoted an antisemitism that was more practical and organizational than ideological. Nevertheless, it reinforced anti-Jewish stereotypes and cast Jews as enemies of the German middle and lower classes. Finally, unlike Schönerer, who was always more comfortable with the elitist nationalism of the student fraternities, Lueger was comfortable with big city crowds and knew how to channel their protest into political gain. Hitler drew his ideology in large part from Schönerer, but his strategy and tactics from Lueger. This shows that the environment around him gave Hitler his ideas, and people around him had a sense of anti-Semitism which influenced him more. Hitler also got ideas on how to control groups and take advantage of them in order to gain power from Luegar and Schonerer. Hitler

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