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Private Henry Tandey: The Man Who Shot The Young Adolf Hitler

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Ashlyn Peek
11/13/15
5th Hour
Hitler
On September 28, 1918, Private Henry Tandey has the young and injured Adolf Hitler in his sights, but cannot bring himself to shoot a wounded man and spares Adolf his life. What if Private Henry Tandey had shot the young Adolf Hitler? The course of history would be changed. But what would be changed about it? Hitler is known as the man in charge of the dark genocide called the Holocaust, otherwise known as ‘The Shoah’. Because of it, he is viewed as one of the most evil men that has ever been born. Hitler killed off millions of jews for different reasons, had propaganda and speeches that won over almost all of Germany, and ‘punished’ the Jews in ways that he thought they deserved.
Hitler had many reasons on why the Jews should be ‘annihilated’, from them being the cause of Germany’s poor finances to them ruining the racial ‘purity’ of Germany, which apparently had no place for any Jews. When Hitler was convicted into prison in 1923, he wrote a book called Mein Kampf (Meaning My Struggle). In this book he boldly states, “As a result of this, we shouldn’t be surprised if our people someday view the personification of the Devil, as the symbol of all evil, as the Jew himself” (Ford 277). In this bold statement, Hitler says how ‘our …show more content…

Hitler killed many Jews with many, many different reasons, was an amazing persuasive speecher and had very good propaganda system that won people over to his side, and killed off approximately 6 millions Jews in cruel and unforgiving ways. Hitler is one of the most hated men in all of history, and or a good reason since he was the man in charge of the sad and brutal Holocaust. Hitler was the most talented orator of all history and a brilliant strategist, but was the ringleader to the Jew killing Nazi regime, making him a common topic of undeniable

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