Adolf Hitler Man Or Menace Research Paper

Hitler: Man or Menace? Hitler is most commonly known for the horrible deeds that he committed in his lifetime. Those acts were terrible and left a scar on the world that can never be mended. However, Hitler did possess extreme intelligence. He was innovative and smart, but as his mind was tainted and as he turned against non-Aryans over time, the possibility of using his brilliance to be an artist slowly drifted from his mind. He was originally a young man who moved to Vienna to become an artist, but his dreams changed to something completely different. On April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary. He was the fourth child of the marriage of Alois Hitler, a custom official who was 51 years old at the date of

Adolf’s harsh, short-tempered father was angry about how poorly he did and wanted him to become a civil servant, not an artist like his son wanted to. Later, he wrote: “I yawned and grew sick to my stomach at the thought of sitting in an office, deprived of my liberty; ceasing to be the master of my own time and being compelled to force the content of a whole life into blanks that had to be filled out”(Haugen, 20). In 1903, Alois died and Adolf was able to convince his mother to let him drop out at the age of sixteen 2 ½ years later. Hitler’s mother drew a widow’s pension and owned some property. Adolf did not have to work, spending his days daydreaming, drawing pictures, and

The first time he attempted to get into art school, the art he showed the Academy of Fine Arts was considered good but he was unable to get into the school nonetheless. On his second time he was not allowed to even take an entrance examination to see if he could enter. On December 21 of that year, Hitler’s mother died from cancer and Hitler never told his mother he wasn’t admitted into the art school. Later, Adolf wrote “The death of my mother put a sudden end to all my high-flown plans.…It was a dreadful blow, particularly for me. I had honored my father, but my mother I had loved” (Haugen, 25). Adolf lived in Vienna with his best friend, August Kubizek, who were both there to study music. As he spent time in Vienna he developed a growing hatred toward non-Aryans, a supposedly perfect race of non-Jewish, pure blooded Germans with blue eyes and blond hair. In 1913, Hitler moved to Munich, Germany, where the Austrian Army called him for a physical examination and was found unfit for service, but Hitler volunteered immediately to become a messenger and was accepted. He was in the Western front for the majority of the war, taking part in some of the most gruesome battles. He had a few near death experiences, such as the time a bullet went through the sleeve of his shirt and didn’t even hit his actual body, which convinced him that he was part of some bigger purpose