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Hitler's Differences And Similarities Between Priest And Hitler

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Hitler, not such a bright character in most people’s opinion still brought a smidge of good into Germany. Hitler known to be a very cruel man was not always like this in his childhood but the events that occurred in his life affected him which also affected his career choice and led him to become a dictator. From a very young age Hitler had a passion for art and wanted to become an artist, but his father did not approve of this decision. Hitler was also inspired to be a Catholic Priest at the age of nine. Since those events framed Hitler’s character/personality from a very young age he developed a very egoistic person. Hitler was destined to become a dictator but what if he became something else? What if life led him to become a priest, how …show more content…

There are many differences between a priest and a dictator but for me there are three main differences spiritual, ruthlessness and lastly open-mindedness. Most probably dictators do not have or follow a religion even though they may execute love or seem practising in one religion due to their speeches. Most dictators for example Adolf Hitler only used God in his speeches to grab the attention and to gain the full support of the German people both physically and emotionally since majority of the population were Christians. Priests on the other hand have such a strong spiritual connection between God and oneself practicing their religion with so much love and fascination. Another grave difference is how dictators can just sentence someone to death and not even give them a fair trial just straight up with the punishment. This really shows how cold-hearted they can be. Priests are known to be generous and always seek well for other people and always try to help, not harm his fellow people. Finally the last major difference between the two is open-mindedness. Dictators have a mission and that is to rise towards power and control, and they do not want anyone or anything to stand in their way. A perfect example I can provide you is of Hitler, he wanted to become the Fuhrer of Germany and to do that he had to eliminate all existing political parties most importantly communism since they had the greatest amount of supporters and to Hitler they were his biggest threat. Unlike for priest though they accept different ideologies. They understand how not everyone wants to follow them and how they cannot be forced to do so. Hitler on the other hand created a group of people known as the SS and one of their roles was to kill anyone who was against

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