FREE ESSAY ON ADOLF HITLER

ADOLF HITLER

For the past week I have been researching three men, Joseph Stalin, Mao, and Adolf Hitler
for an answer to a question; who is the most evil? Which, means that I had to think about
what exactly was evil for me. Now the dictionary they have a simple definition for it,
which is: morally reprehensible, sinful, wicked. But there could be so many different
meanings, because there are many different people in the world. So, these three men were
judged on my definition of evil. Evil to me is someone who consciously knows what there
doing but still doesn't care, someone who purposely tries to cause destruction on other
people, one who possibly thinks that they are somewhat of a messiah, and someone who
manipulates people, especially children, into thinking that what they believe is what
they are suppose to believe in a fight for. And after many articles, papers, direct
quotes, and book scanning, I have come up with my answer. After getting into his mind,
reading his thoughts, and listening to his speeches, I have to say Adolf Hitler. Killing
people in it is evil but his manipulation, power, and demented thoughts, he acted on,
terrified me. This man appalls me. Everything he represents and started repulses me. When
I look at pictures of him I know in my heart that what I am looking at is pure evil, and
that's why I know it is him that I am going to write about.
Adolf Hitler was born at 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889; he was born in the
small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria. His
father was Alois Hiedler, who earlier changed his name to Hitler, and was a retired from
the Austrian civil service by the time Adolf was 6. Alois was used to giving orders and
having the obeyed and also expected this from his children. Adolf's older brother was
badly beaten by their father and by thirteen ran away, leaving Adolf to get the physical
and mental abuse at the age of only 7. One day, Hitler went rummaging through his
father's book collection and came across several of a military nature, including a
picture book on the War of 1870-1871 between the Germans and the French. By Hitler's own
account this book became an obsession. He read it over and over, becoming convinced it
had been a glorious event.
"It was not long before the great historic struggle had become my greatest spiritual
experience. From then on, I became more and more enthusiastic about everything that was
in any way connected with the war or, for that matter, with soldering." -Hitler stated in
his book Mein Kampf.
At age 21 Adolf Hitler was homeless in Vienna and somewhat of an artists. Even before he
came to Vienna, Hitler had a personality notable for its lack of empathy. Many historians
have concluded Hitler suffered psychological distress partly brought on by an unhappy
childhood notably his relationship with his father, a domineering, at times cruel man. In
Vienna, and later, Hitler suffered bouts of depression. Other times he experienced
extreme highs, only to by followed by a drop back into the depths. One consistent
personality trait was the hysteria evident whenever someone displeased him. Hitler's
personality has been described as basically hysterical in nature. This is where Hitler
started to get thoughts about Jewish people. Hitler describes the transformation in his
thinking regarding the Jews, as to begin with a chance meeting.
"Once, as I was strolling through the inner city, I suddenly encountered an apparition in
a black caftan and black hair locks. Is this a Jew? Was my first thought. For, to be
sure, they had not looked like that in Linz. I observed the man furtively and cautiously,
but the longer I stared at this foreign face, scrutinizing feature for feature, the more
my first question assumed a new for: is this a German?" -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf.
To answer his own question, he immersed himself in anti-Semitic literature. Then he went
out and studied Jews as they passed by. 
" ...The more I saw, the more sharply they became distinguished in my eyes from the rest
of humanity..." Hitler, Mein Kampf.
Even though, he continually did business and maintain friendships with Jews, Some say
that the seeds of hate were planted and would be nurtured by events soon to come laying
the foundation for one of the greatest tragedies in all of human history. 
In the last few paragraphs I have explained some events that happened in Hitler's life to
maybe let you be educated a little more on him. Maybe these might be some of the reasons
he hates or has problems. Maybe he really did have psychiac problems. But still it is not
an excuse. From Point A to B, he knew what he was doing. He knew the pain and destruction
he was giving to people and that was yet to stop him.
While spending time in prison for trying to overthrow the government, Adolf Hitler wrote
his famous book "Mein Kampf", in which he describes many problems and where he states the
Jews and communists were responsible for those problems. He also decided on the "Final
Solution" to the "Jewish Question". It was his goal to eliminate the Jewish race from the
European continent. In his book Hitler divides humans into categories based on physical
appearance, establishing higher and lower orders, or types of humans. At the top,
according to Hitler, is the Germanic man with his fair skin, blond hair and blue eyes.
Hitler refers to this type of person as an Aryan. He asserts the Aryan is the supreme
form of human, or master race. And so it follows in Hitler's thinking, if there is a
supreme form of human, then there must be others less than supreme, the Untermenschen, or
racially inferior. Hitler assigns this position to Jews and the Slavic peoples, notably
the Czechs, Poles, and Russians.
"...it (Nazi philosophy) by no means believes in an equality of races, but along with
their difference it recognizes their higher or lesser value and feels itself obligated to
promote the victory of the better and stronger, and demand the subordination of the
inferior and weaker in accordance with the eternal will that dominates this universe."
-Hitler states in Mein Kampf
He then states the Aryan is also culturally superior.
" All the human culture, all the results of art, science, and technology we see before us
today are almost exclusively the creative product of the Aryan...Hence it is no accident
that the first cultures arose in places where the Aryan, in his encounters with lower
peoples, subjugated them and bent the to his will. They then became the first technical
instrument in the service of a developing culture."
Hitler goes on to say that subjugated peoples actually benefit by being conquered because
they come in contact with and learn from the superior Aryans. However, he adds they
benefit only as long the Aryan remains absolute master and doesn't mingle or inter-marry
with inferior conquered peoples. But it is the Jews, Hitler says, who are engaged in a
conspiracy to keep this master race from assuming its rightful position as rulers of the
world, by tainting its racial and cultural purity and even inventing forms of government
in which the Aryan comes to believe in equality and fails to recognize his racial
superiority.
"The mightiest counterpart to the Aryan is represented by the Jew"
Hitler describes the struggle for world domination as an ongoing racial, cultural, and
political battle between Aryans and Jews. He outlines his thoughts in detail, accusing
the Jews of conducting an international conspiracy to control world finances, controlling
the press, inventing liberal democracy as well as Marxism, promoting prostitution and
vice, and using culture to spread disharmony. Throughout all of these thoughts and ideas,
Hitler, never once thought what he was teaching and spreading through Germany was wrong.
To him this was not wrong but the way of life they were the masters and the Jews were the
peasants. Which is evil enough, in a way.
Through out Mein Kampf, Hitler refers to Jews as parasites, liars, dirty, crafty, sly,
wily, repulsive, unscrupulous, monsters, foreign, menace, bloodthirsty, avaricious, the
destroyer of Aryan humanity, and the mortal enemy of Aryan humanity. This conspiracy idea
and the notion on 'competition' for world domination between Jews and Aryans would become
widespread beliefs in Nazi Germany and would even be taught to school children. Many of
the children fought for the war and wear known as "Hitler's kids." So not only did this
man have hate but then use his hate, he also began to manipulate and put thoughts into
young children's mind to help him for battle.
Once Hitler became chancellor and eventually took over totally they changed their mind.
The first thing he did was to take away the Jews right to vote. Soon they were not
allowed to marry with a pure German, they could not hold positions such as teachers,
doctors, lawyers, and so on. Many Jews only then realized that he was serious and many
fled Germany. Hitler took over many places before the other countries did anything to
stop him but then in 1939, they could wait no more. The Nazi's were then told to round up
Jews, Communists, Gypsies, Homosexuals and others which were viewed as "Inferior"
according to Nazi racial theory and enemies of the German people and put on trains. They
were all sent to Concentration camps, which were set up to implement the 'final
solution'. Camps such as Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen Belsen, were all equipped with gas
chambers to make the killing process quick and efficient. In those camps 6 million Jews
and the Nazis killed many others. Hitler's army seemed unstoppable but in the end, the
allies managed to win many decisive battles.
Then on the fateful day of April 30th, 1945 Hitler committed suicide in his bunker by
shooting himself in the mouth. His body was burned, but no ones know what happened to the
"Fuhrer's" ashes. On May 7th, 1945 Germany surrendered unconditionally.
This should all show why I think that Hitler is an evil man. To be cruel enough to get
into people's minds and make them think like you is appalling. To know that he took 6
million life's in his hand and destroyed them, because they were not the perfect human,
is awful. What he started really never was stopped. We still have white supremacist,
Nazi's, Klu-Klux-Klan, etc. These groups may say that they are different but in my eyes
they are all the same and many of them looked to Hitler as a leader and someone to guide
them through the racial battle they were causing. Even though I think that Hitler had an
incredible mind and he also was a very powerful speaker, the way he used it is horrible.
The world will never forget that war, and the people that's family were in the
concentration camps will never have those scars, it left, healed. He has caused pain,
suffering, and hate all over the world, which is why I think this man, is so evil.