Hitler and the Nazi Party

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Contrary to popular belief, no one is born evil. Even the worst tyrants of the world were once innocent and benevolent. Most became the way they are due to unfortunate events in their life. This was the case for Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. Hitler was born in Austria on April 20, 1889. He had a calamitious childhood, a series of deaths in his family occured as he grew up. Although he was Austrian, he admired Germany, for its immense power and accelerated technology, so he joined the German army during World War I. Injured in battle, Hitler was sent to a hospital, where he learned that Germany had surrendered in the war. Enraged at the weakness of his country, Hitler leapt into politics. He vowed to make Germany the most powerful nation in the world.

At first, Hitler thought that legal rise to power would consume too much time and be inefficient, so he created a coup to overthrow the government. Unfortunately for him, his plan failed, and Hitler was imprisoned. Although treason was a major crime at the time, the guards thought it was negligible, and Hitler was released after a few months. After his release, Hitler had a cruel idea to take him to political power; he blamed Jews for Germany's loss in the war and promised that Germany would become powerful once again if all Jews were exterminated. What a stupid and useless idea, you may think, but instead of of disapproval and discouragement, Hitler gained support. Over three million people supported Hitler in politics. With this encouragement, the horrible Hitler regime was born.

On August 2,1934 Hitler became the Furher of Germany. He believed that Germany should only be occupied by a superior "Aryan" race. Despite the fact that Hitler himself did not abide by the definition of Aryan, the...

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...e, the Franks went into hiding. They moved into a small group of rooms, along with a few other people, on top of an office building, which was named 'The Secret Annexe." With little company, Anne made a diray, giving a detailed description of her life during the war. It is a touching story, and is now one the world's bestselling books. It tells just how much Jews suffered during the Holocaust.

So, why do you need to know about all this depressing information? The answer lies deep within human psycology. We as humans always want people to blame for a fault, a scapegoat for a problem. We always want to push the blame on someone who is innocent. Of course, this isn't morally correct, or in any way correct at all. We need to learn to accept our mistakes so nothing this horrible will ever happen again. We never want to make people suffer as Hitler did in the Holocaust.

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