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The Multiple Perspectives Of Adolf Hitler Essay

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The Multiple Perspectives of Adolf Hitler. History has had many evil characters, but Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, is considered to have been the most inhumane, dangerous, and deadliest of all. He made the persecution of Jews official government policy. His wishes led to millions of death. Many people were responsible for the Holocaust, which millions of Jews and others were murdered. As stated in the book Adolf Hitler, Study in Hate, No person bears as much guilt as Adolf Hitler (Roberts 2011). He rose to power by preaching hate violence, and murder as well as winning support by lying and encouraging prejudice. He promoted Pan-Germanism, anti-Semitism, and anticommunism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. He become a dictator from 1934 to 1945, during World War II, and led to eleven million peoples been killed, and six million of them are Jews. He committed suicide with his wife Eva Braun on 30th April 1945 (Robert 1990). Personality plays a major role in the life experiences of Adolf Hitler. With that being said, there are various psychological perspectives that help examine and analyze his personality more thoroughly. This paper will describe three of those perspectives: the psychoanalytic aspect, the neo-analytic aspect, and the trait and skill aspect as they relate to the personality of Hitler.
The Psychoanalytic Aspect (Ch. 3) Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau-Am-Inn, Austria. He was the fourth child of Alois and Klara Hitler’s

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