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Hitler's Rise To Power

The Antichrist is…a man with white skin, in everyday clothes, dangerously contemporary, and a mighty demagogue…The great Russian philosopher Soloviev described him. The Antichrist ‘does not look like he is,’ and therein precisely lies the danger. He is a young man with a strong personality and seductive power of speech and writing…He will win fame first by book…then, in Berlin, he will be come ruler of the ‘United States of Europe;’ he will conquer Asia; America will submit to him voluntarily. He is an absolute genius, and he may, says Soloviev, wear a small mustache.1

Adolf Hitler was a failed artist who rose to rule Germany as a dictator from 1933-1945. Due to his racial hatred, approximately eleven million …show more content…

In September of 1907, Hitler went to Vienna, with hopes of attending art school. Upon learning that his mother was dying of cancer, he went back home. When she died on December 20, 1907, Hitler went back to Vienna to return to his dream of becoming an artist. However, twice the art school rejected him, which is something that he would never forget. "In his misery Adolf Hitler began to learn things other than art. He learned to hate."4 He became curious about Jews and began to read about them. He started to believe some of the anti-semetic ideas he was reading about. He began to believe that the Aryans were superior and the Jews were responsible for his failure as an artist. He vowed that they would pay for his humiliation. From age nineteen to twenty-four, Hitler lived as a vagrant on the streets of Vienna, and refused regular work. He began to hate all of humanity. In 1913 he moved to Munich, where he still refused regular work, but was hardly broke. In fact, he had the income of a provincial lawyer from odd jobs and from selling paintings.5

How did such a maladjusted individual rise to power in the German government? Hitler hated the treaty of Versailles. He thought it made his government vulnerable to revolts allowing an army of only 100,000 men. He wanted to punish the makers of the treaty and decided to become involved with politics. He joined the

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