“Everyone seems to have become Hitler”. Gabriel D. Rosenfeld recently wrote these words in his recent study of how the Nazi past has become a recurring theme in contemporary culture – to the point of almost becoming trivial. Since Donald Trump’s election win in 2016, the use of “Hitler” or “Nazi” to describe Trump, has quite frankly trivialised the Nazi regime and the horrors they committed. These claims do more to confuse than clarify the issues at stake and threaten the legitimacy of the atrocities committed during WW2 by the regime itself.
Since 2016, the Trump presidency has been played the Hitler card even more than any of his predecessors. These comparisons have not just increased in frequency, but their intensity and falsely equivalent
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Immigration, rampant xenophobia, social and economic reconstruction, and a loss of faith in the government’s ability to solve pressing problems or prevent new ones.
Whenever this political or moral comparison is used, we set the bar for inhumanity as high as possible. Why should the horrors and atrocities of World War 2 and the Holocaust be the primary measure for all things political?
During an emotional speech at the Anti-Defamation League New York headquarters last year, National Director Emeritus Abraham Foxman condemned comparisons between U.S President Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler as partisan and belittling of the Holocaust. “I don’t care how you feel politically: to compare a candidate for the presidency of the United States of America, because you don’t like him, to Hitler is Holocaust trivialization,” he stated at the 25th anniversary lunch honouring the Hidden Child Foundation – an organization devoted to recognizing and validating survivors who were either in hiding physically or under an assumed, non-Jewish name during the
The Holocaust was a time period in which Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Nazi Germany. He prosecuted many Jews because he believed they were the reason World War 1 started, causing the death of 100,000 German soldiers. Because of this, he made sure nearly every Jew was put into concentration camps or killed. Adolf Hitler was a man who wanted everything his way, and because of this he killed innocent people. The Holocaust was an unfair period for the Jews. The Jews were killed because of who they were, and the citizens didn’t try to do anything to help them
In spite of the fact that it is a commonly known historical piece of the Holocaust, it’s authenticity has been questioned. Some conspiracies deny that it even happened at all. Through the analyzation of Hitler’s own violent anti-Semitism, powerful position, and ability to convey Nazi propaganda into action, one can see how he is the sole cause of the Holocaust.
It is extremely evident that Jews were the main target for dire judgmental opinions, but there was one man who had a passion for Germany; he believed he was the ‘saviour’ of Germany, this man served in the first world war, and it was then, near the end of the war, recovering from a war wound, when Germany was weak and crumbling, he made a vow to himself, that he would be the one, to make Germany strong, he was: Adolf Hitler.
A common misconception about the Holocaust is that the world was naïve of the atrocities happening under the Nazi’s rule. The horrors of the Holocaust were not left undocumented. Unfortunately, many saw these malicious acts as insignificant to the global population; people only start sympathizing when the hindrance affects them. Hitler, with the help of his many allies, achieved to murder millions of innocent men, women, and children. After spending this semester studying the Holocaust, I have realized that the Nazis’ greatest ally was neither an individual nor a country; Hitler’s greatest ally was indifference.
On December 14, 2015, Ali Swenson wrote an article on why Donald Trump and Roosevelt encounter a similar fear, a fear of ethnicity. After Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt ordered that all Japanese people in America be sent to an internment camp. Similarly, after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Trump wanted all Muslims banned from the United States. Overall I think the author was biased for pointing out flaws in Trump’s argument, but did a decent job of providing more fact over emotion.
Readers have already heard about Trump’s similarities to Hitler and have become unresponsive to the idea. The mention of the Trail of Tears and the Great Depression are not only a fresh perspective of the implications of Trump’s plans, but elicit a much more personal response for Americans. This utilization of historical fact not only adds credibility to the article, but also an emotional impact. The mentioning of the Bosnians in Yugoslavia brings even more historical credibility to the article. Americans many not know much about the topic so it does not elicit the same emotional response, but the story does add an educational
Even though Holocaust denial was not a new-fangled phenomenon in Germany at the end of the 1980s, it was not before this period that it was given such public attention. For the duration of the late 1980s and near the beginning of the 1990s Germany became the arena for perhaps the most combined push for promotion that the Holocaust denial interest group has ever tried. Besides the annual conferences of the Society for Historical Review in California, Holocaust deniers did not and by and large still do not, habitually become visible together at gatherings. Additionally, in no other country have Holocaust deniers linked so often and so openly with the political far right as they did in Germany in the late 1980s and early on in the 1990s. Scores of important German Holocaust deniers were affiliates of German far right parties, together with every German Holocaust denier observed in the current thesis. Additionally, a lot of the rallies and functions which both local and foreign deniers addressed were planned by far right political parties with by other groups on the right extreme of the political scale.
Thousands of individuals file through the halls of the national Houlecost Museum each year. Tears running down their cheeks, visitors are reminded of the horrendous mistakes of the past, and charged with insuring this carnage will not occur again. Deep within one’s self, something is repulsed by the hideous brutality of the Jewish Homicide. However, is not this very evil, reincarnated in this modern era, in the forms of abortion and the “merciful” butchery of the infirm? Is today’s society not trying to “dispose of” the unwanted of society, just as the Fascist regimes of the last century did? Are the American people condoning to this barbarian killing, or has the truth been so distortedly warped, that right becomes wrong? At this point, do
The legacy the Second World War is often inundated in a series of disparagements, condemnations, and outright disgust against the perpetrators of the industrial scale mass-murder that was the Holocaust. This provides both positive and negative outcomes for those who seek to study the Holocaust and understand it from all angles. The demonization of key Nazi luminaries like Hitler and Himmler are highly appropriate given their ruthless and inhumane actions against European Jewry, ethnic minorities, their own German citizenry, and an international global standard of morality. Their reputations for inhumanity are well–deserved. Nonetheless,
Bernard Giesen covers how the trauma of the Holocaust created a collective memory that was influenced and shaped by the loss of German identity. The German national identity is one that stresses its unique and exceptional nature, so with the loss of World War II came shame and connected with the loss of identity (Giesen 115). The first identity after the war, somewhat similar to Americans in this way, was silence (Giesen 116). When the trials began, especially after the Eichmann trial, a new narrative was born, that of individual criminal guilt (Giesen 121). This excluded those who destroyed the German identity of uniqueness by legally excluding them from society (Giesen 125). A new narrative was again created, this time with a focus of the German people living below politics (Giesen 126). As more new generations grew up, more questions were asked about the Holocaust. They did not want to be associated with the “perpetrators” and so public conversation of the Holocaust became more of a focus (Giesen
Adolf Hitler began one of the most influential and vicious fascist regimes known in history. If the First World War had not happened, along with the humiliation and defeat Germany suffered, Hitler and his messages riddled with hate would not have been popularized. Hitler promised change and was seen almost as a redeemer of Germany to his followers. His speeches were a form of manipulation that enlightened individuals on his motives, some of which he concealed from them. The three most important things one should know in order to understand the context of my document, "Speech of August 1, 1923", by Adolf Hitler to the National Socialists, are the debilitating Treaty of Versailles, the community of National Socialists, and Hitler's rise to power to develop control over the movement.
In conclusion, Hitler gained power by politics, extermination of the Jews, and ridiculous ideas. No matter how many years go by, we cannot and will not forget these horrifying events that took place. Everyone in the world has the power to stop racism and violence, but it’s up to us to make the right choice. Hilter had a cchoice and power, but misused it and let pride overcome him. Will we make the right choice in our generation
Adolf Hitler has long been the focus of many debates and arguments. It is accurate to say that he is one of the most controversial leaders ever to walk the Earth. It is hard to believe by most how such a cruel and oddly looking man became the leader of a very powerful country. Hitler's rise to power was not through that of brute force (except for his first try through the Beer Hall Putsch), but rather through his ideas of a better, superior Germany. In this paper I want to examine Hitler's childhood and life in the army during WW I, how it shaped his thoughts on Jews, and his tedious rise to "Fur her" in Germany. I also want to answer the question, "was the fall of Hitler preventable or inevitable?"
No other figure in history can boast the embodiment of infamy than that of Adolf Hitler. A face that requires no introduction is either one of two things: a reputable individual, or a formidable one. It goes without saying that Hitler wasn’t anything other than the latter. In this essay, I will be investigating the odyssey of a man who indoctrinated a fascist regime and assumed the position of a dictator for all time.
When people think of influential leaders in history, few let their minds wander toward the more sinister side of leadership. One of the most prominent figures was none other than Adolf Hitler. Though a nefarious man with a bloodlust for world domination by any means, Hitler led by example in most of every aspect in his dictatorship. Through his ruthless leadership as the front-runner of the Nazi Party, his uncanny skills as an incredible orator, and his power of persuasion used as a result of the current situations in his years, Hitler became a powerful leader. In his time he was a man not to be trifled with. In the ages to come, he left a legacy as a cold-blooded, sinister dictator and would go down in history as one of the most infamous figures of all time. However, if one isolates his leadership without the corrupted motives, one would see how Hitler’s substantial influence on others and skills as a leader could be applied in a better way so that it has a positive impact on the world.