Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass.” Auschwitz. Mass genocide. These words can never be uttered without the mention of Adolf Hitler, perhaps the cruelest man ever to walk this earth. Even fiction characters in books and movies have difficulty matching his barbaric status. However, in World War Z, the author, Max Brooks, comes very close to creating a character as evil and cruel as Hitler. Brooks portrays Redeker as a fictitious Hitler, but the difference between Redeker and Hitler is that the people of South Africa needed Redeker’s twisted brilliance, while the people of Germany would have been far better off without Hitler’s psychotic ideas.
Redeker and Hitler’s perception among the people and their personal characteristics are strikingly
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Both plans have similarities, but the result of each is vastly different. Redeker condemned thousands, possibly millions, of people to death in order to save a select population. In his previous plan, Orange Eighty-Four, Redeker “had even gone so far as to calculate who should be ‘brought aboard’” (72), or who should be saved. Redeker took natural selection to the extreme, creating a group of people he thought would best be able to continue running and strengthening the country, while sacrificing the rest of the country to act as “’human bait’” (73) for the undead. Similarly, Hitler methodically exterminated groups of people he thought to be unfit and would not contribute to society. He was convinced Aryans were the master race, and were the ones who should rule the world. This idea was so firmly planted in Hitler’s mind that he went to war to accomplish this goal. Ultimately, he lost and it cost him his life. It cost his country much more: years of economic troubles with bigger reparations than after World War I, rebuilding the country physically and mentally, and a whole generation of young men almost nonexistent because of all the deaths in the war. Redeker’s plan had a slightly different ending. Although his plan was “insidiously dark,” it was also “genius” and according to the elder statesman, it would “’save our people’” (74). And ultimately, it
Hitler and the Holocaust is a very informational novel written by Robert S. Wistrich that not only explains this horrible time in history, but also gives us a look into the mind of Hitler and Nazi ideology. This book is not just centered on Hitler and Germany as it my sound, antisemitism spread like a plague all across Europe even before the Holocaust took place. In this work, Wistrich is not making an argument, but is trying to find an explanation on why so many inhumane actions were allowed.
There have been countless atrocities committed throughout history. Most of these atrocities are justified and developed from ideas and false realities. The most infamous atrocity of all history, the holocaust is no exception. Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany from 1933 until his suicide at the end of WWII, was directly responsible for the deaths of over 12 million people. Alan Bullock in his book Hitler a Study in Tyranny dispels any notion that any of Hitler’s ideas were original. Bullock proposes that Hitler and his rise to power was a product of other political ideas and a knack for exploiting the timing of events to extend his influence. According to Bullock Hitler’s coming to power was the product the political ideals of the late 19th and early 20th centuries which he was exposed to, the world post-WWI, and a knack for exposition events to his favor. He used his gifts of using propaganda and his organizational skills to use politics as a means to achieving power.
Both Hitler and Sanger believed in a Superior race. To them, a superior race is the race that has superior genetics over all other races. To believe in a superior race is to believe that no other race is as good. Hitler believed that Aryans were the superior race. Aryans were Nordic people, being from Sweden and Norway with pure blonde hair and blue eyes. Hitler believed if you did not have the blonde hair or blue eyes you were a lower class, as Aryans were the Master Race. Hitler, to create a Master Race, began having those with Aryan features reproduce with each other. Sanger believed in her own form of a superior race. To her anyone with birth defects or a different skin tone from her white skin was unclean. Sanger claims that only the white men and women who were healthy should breed and raise strong young. Minorities or
Max Vandenburg was able to escape Stuttgart by carrying Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ which highlights Hitler’s hatred for Jewish people. The words in this story enforced the cruelty of human’s, the German’s who succumbed to Hitler’s words became Nazi’s. In this context, it can be seen that words can be used in a negative way, however, Max would later paint over the pages of ‘Mein Kampf’ to write his own story, ‘The Standover Man’ which he would gift to Liesel, “Max had cut out a collection of pages from Mein Kampf and painted them over in white.” This novel was an act of kindness for Liesel who was fascinated by words yet could not buy novels or obtain them legally. Max’s second novel ‘The Word Shaker’ was also gifted to Liesel when he’d left for Dachau, in this he discusses the power of words and how they can be used in a cruel way, “Yes, the Fuhrer, decided that he would rule the world with words….. He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.” Through ‘Mein Kampf’, ‘The Standover Man’ and ‘The Word Shaker’ the reader can understand the power of words on human
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler are often referred to as two of the most influential people of the first half of the twentieth century. FDR and Hitler were certainly the two most influential and powerful people in their time of economic depression and world war. These were two very different men, but they had their similarities. Both of these men brought their country’s out of an economic depression. The two were very impressive speakers. Hitler certainly had his “critics”, but so too did Franklin Roosevelt.
Adolf Hitler, most widely known as the orchestrator of the Holocaust during World War II committed genocide across the nation, but his reasons for this mass murdering come down to one point; jealousy. As a young man Hitler had a yearning to succeed at anything he set his mind on, and being rejected by art academy’s and living as a homeless man for a part of his life began his envy for others who had succeeded, unlike himself. While Hitler was volunteering for the German army in World War I, he was temporarily blinded due to a gas attack and during this period he claimed to have received his calling, “He was to liberate Germany and make it free from what he saw as the ever-present source of decay within German racial purity; the Jew” (Dufner 15). From his point of view Jews were all he could see, and it disgusted him, so in order for him to fulfill what he believed he was meant to do, he must rid of Jews across Germany. The novel Night by Elie Wiesel and Adolf Hitler are both complex and unimaginable, but they both express belief and their own knowledge of the same situation but from different point of views. Adolf Hitler, urged by his self-hatred began his own plan for the extermination of Jews and even as far as world domination.
History tried to repeat itself. The late Adolf Hitler a tyrant, fascist and regime is being compared to Donald trump, a Republican candidate for President of the United State of America. He is currently leading the polls in the Republican party. It’s ignorant of history and offensive to those who lost their families in the Holocaust.
Looking for the book “The Crucible” you can compare with a lot of facts that happened in the world, one of these it’s the famous “Holocaust” in which almost 11 million people died, just because of one powerful guy, Adolph Hitler.
Effective Leaders King Kamehameha was the first person to unexpectedly unite all of the Hawaiian islands. He was a strong ruler as well as a skillful and strategic warrior. Adolf Hitler was an extremely powerful chancellor of Germany. He lead the Nazi Party, which killed millions of people and almost wiped out a tremendous amount of races. King Kamehameha and Adolf Hitler were effective leaders because they both had strong mindsets, were persistent, and were highly respected.
Self-interest can be said to be opportunism, or it is acting while taking opportunities and advantages of other people with total disregard of their interests while Human rights are the rights that are entitled to every human being. Throughout history, the world has experienced leaders who have been led by egoism, greed and self-interests which have led to violation of the basic human rights which include mass murder, deportation, among others. This paper attempts to explore case of dictator Adolf Hitler, a one-time Germany’s chancellor who rose to power in during the 1920s and early 1930s at a time of when, political, social and economic upheaval were under course. Hitler had failed to grasp the power by force in
6 million Jewish people died during the Holocaust and there were 100s of camp heads responsible for killing them. Approximately 900,000 survived and Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 of them. Most of the survivors, however, were liberated by the red army one of those people being Elie Wiesel. Both of these men went through separate conflicts that tore them away from their family and friends. They together dealt with inner and outer struggle, the differences between schindler's reactions, family and conflicts to Elie's are both major and minor.
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin are 2 notoriously known people in world history. Both Stalin and Hitler are known for the great number of deaths they have caused. Although both men have totally different reasons on why they killed so many people their ways of leadership are somewhat alike.
Starting off with Adolf Hitler, though he never physically appears in the story, but he stands as a symbol for all the evil caused by the Nazis and the war. Hitler's use of language and propaganda has caused suffering which shows an abuse of the power of words, and his book “Mein Kampf” plays a major role in the plot. Max addresses,”Mein Kampf. Of all the things to save him”(160). Hitler’s book gives the impression to people that Max is embracing Hitler’s teaching, the mockery that such a book that is a punch to the
The novel 1984 has many similarities with the history of Adolf Hitler. The utopian theme, genre and characters, such as winston, have comparisons to Adolf Hitler and his objective in that time. This novel is very dark and pessimistic noting that the big brother in this case can be Adolf himself. There are various details and clues that prove this, which are Adolf's increase in power, his threat in the economy, and the truth about himself through his actions. As a Totalitarian Dictator, Adolf had incredible amounts of power and control over Germany and because of the people's influenced trust in him an abominable outcome has taken place in history.
“I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature.” This quote by Adolf Hitler can acutely describe the withstanding belief that he stood by in the years of his reign, 1933-1948. During the time of World War Two, Hitler vigorously believed in restoring his nation after the grim effects on Germany after World War One. He believed that in order to restore the nation, any non-Aryan or not of the superior race must be eradicated. Utilizing this belief, Hitler along with Nazi government caused years of suffering for the Jews and non-Aryans in the Holocaust. Kristallnacht is the birth of numerous violent attacks against the Jews as the Holocaust progressed. Kristallnacht is a turning point because life for Jews in Germany became intolerable politically, economically, and socially.