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
One way Hitler’s ideology was similar to most people was in the fact that he blamed Jews for Germany’s problems. Jews had been a favorite scapegoat of people ever since the Black plague. It was not a new concept for the Germans to blame the Jews for their problems. For this
Most would not recognize Adolf Hitler of being a political theorist, due to the fact of the horrific events that transpired under his control. However, he indeed was one for better or worse. His views about the political world were extreme to say the least and he often wrote his theories in need or due to circumstance (http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/kampf.htm. His views were mostly formed in three time periods of his life (http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/kampf.htm). The first one was in his years of a young man without many means to survive. This period was prior to World War I when he lived in Vienna and Munich (http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/kampf.htm). Information he would
It is also said that since Hitler grew up in Vienna, the capital of Austria, a place where anti-Semitism is nothing out of the sorts, and also a place where the mayor is known for his extreme nationalism, these ideas may have rubbed off on him (“Why did Hitler hate Jews?” 3)
The issue of Hitler’s psychological abnormality and the cause being has many believed that it also stems from him being rejected twice to his dream school, the Academy of Arts in Vienna. He has been raised with the constant influence of anti-semitic beliefs and many believed that a staggering amount of Jewish people who were in power during the time had a lot of impact whether he would have been accepted to his dream school or not-- this obviously made him dislike the general Jewish population more than he already did. However, it is not just Hitler’s psychological state of mind that enabled him to commit barbaric and inhumane acts of aggression towards millions of Jewish people, but also the German citizens’ defeated and worn out feelings that also allowed for the horrendous acts to be committed. This is due to the fact that Germany lost the First World War and were deemed to be responsible for the reparations that totalled to 132 billion gold marks, or over $33 billion US dollars, and with this plus the fitful psychological state of mind of the dictator himself, Hitler and the Germans sought out for revenge and found the Jewish population as the main target to place their rage. The idea of using the Jewish population as the scapegoat for their
Hitler grew up in a very anti-Semitic belief system. Anti-Semitism is the term used when people are prejudiced against Jews simply for being Jewish. Prejudice means that someone pre-judges or makes up their mind about someone or something before even meeting them. He was told stories of the evil that these people had done, he pondered on this fact, and then he acted on the feelings that he had developed through his youth.
Have you ever wondered how Hitler rose to power, why he disliked the Jews and wanted them gone? In this research piece Hitler’s leadership significance will be thoroughly discussed, The reason why Hitler disliked the Jewish is that when he was a child and his mom was going through cancer he liked to be in art, so he took classes at his school. He took art all the way up to college, and he went to attend an art school and it was a Jewish school. So he waited to see if they would accept him, and they didn’t accept him and that was when he didn’t like the Jewish when he didn’t get accepted. Think of this if hitler did get accepted would wwII be avoided and as well as the Holocaust?
Hitler represented the Nazi party they wanted to kill off has many Jews as he could, they believed if they did this Germany would recovery from world war 1, also, they believed in a national community formed by so called racially pure people the Nazi party believed there should only be pure Germans. Blonde hair and blue-eyed Germans, they felt if you weren’t a pure German you weren’t a person.
In “Kristallnacht: Night of the Broken Glass,” it is shown, “Over the days, weeks, and months that followed, 3,000 Jewish men were arrested and taken away to concentration camp” (“The Holocaust explained”). The victims, who were brought to the concentration camp, were all murdered by the poison gas. Based on everything Hitler did to the Jews, the Jews must had done something bad to him that led to the outcome right then. In the article, “Why did Hitler hate Jews and want to eliminate them?” the author states, “Hitler was born in Austria and spent his childhood growing up in Vienna.
The origins of Hitler’s anti-Semitism are widely debated by historians. Common theories include: a self-loathing for Hitler’s own partial Jewish identity, reaction from hysterical trauma suffered from mustard gas in World War I, sexual fantasies, and a persecution complex. According to Ian Kershaw these theories offer “…differing degrees of plausibility but ultimately amount to no more than guesswork.” Kershaw argues that the only thing that can be presumed about the foundations of Hitler’s hatred is his low self-esteem, his frustrations of being a drop-out, failed artist, and being an outsider of society. On top of this, Hitler was reading pan-German anti-Semitic newspapers and admired deeply the Austrian anti-Semite and pan-German Leader Georg von Schonerer and anti-Semitic demagogue Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna. All of this coupled with Germany’s defeat in World War I led Hitler to find a justification for the world, as he saw it, falling apart. So, he turned to demonizing the Jewish community while working for the educational unit in the German army. In this unit, Hitler found his talent for demagoguery. Hitler made a concerted effort at accusing Jewish finance capital of being
Hitler in grade school had started to create beliefs for himself that he shared with all of his friends. Then a few years later, Hitler dropped out of school after his mother had died. Soon after, he ran out of money, so for the next few years Hitler stayed at a homeless shelter. It was here where hitler first cultivated the ideas of anti-semitism. Soon after the outbreak of WW1, Hitler applied for the German Military and was accepted. He was not always present at the front lines, but he was present at many of the major battles and was awarded medals for his “service”. After his service, he worked at a job in munich as a military intelligence officer for “”The German Worker’s Party, ”(DAP). It was also here where Hitler gained more anti-semitic,
While in Vienna prior to World War I (1914–1918), Hitler developed anti-Semitic views, most likely created by his resentment of wealthy Jewish citizens during his years of extreme poverty and impoverishment.(Altman 28)
Hitler’s influences did have a big effect on what he did to the Jews during World War II (Mandelbaum). During his time in Vienna, Hitler gained inspiration from many prominent figures in Vienna (Adolf Hitler). “He [Hitler] acquired his first education in politics by studying the demagogic techniques of the popular Christian-social Mayor, Karl Lueger” (Adolf Hitler). Lueger was a major anti-semitic and Hitler started blaming all the semitics (especially Jews) for his failures because of what Lueger believed in (Adolf Hitler). There were two more major inspirations to Hitler in Vienna, “Defrocked monk, Lanz von Liebenfels, and the Austrian Pan-German leader, Georg von Schoenerer, the young Hitler learned to discern the Eternal Jew” (Adolf
Have you ever wondered how Hitler got the germans on his side, or how he started anti semitism throughout the country. Anti Semitism is the prejudiced against Jews. He killed up to 6 million Jews in an event known as the holocaust. Hitler was a ruthless dictator that tried conquering the world during world war two. He killed anyone in his path and took never took no for an answer Hitler’s leadership was significant throughout Germany because he got German Nationalism started in the country, He destroyed the weimar republic and rebuilt a dictatorship in Germany with the help of the Nazis , And made the majority germans anti semitic.
Hitler borrowed a lot of the ideas from Charles Darwin when developing his own ideology. Like Darwin, Hitler believed that social good was influenced by major forms of politics and the fittest would ultimately survive. These animalistic views show why Hitler was so adamant about fighting against others. Like any species, Hitler believed that the Aryans needed to fight in order to stay
promote ultranationalistic values and created Hitler Youth to occupy the minds of the young to ensure