The Use of Rhetoric by Adolf Hitler

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Throughout history, the question of “Does the end ever justify the means?” can be brought up and argued against many different political situations and standpoints, such as the current situations with Nelson Mandela and Edward Snowden. The most popular, and most likely argued, situation is Adolf Hitler’s siege for power in Germany. Many argue that he had purely blamed the Jewish Community due to them being rich in a time of poverty, while others believed he had just reasons for blaming them (American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise). Hitler’s “end” did not truly justify the “means.” This standpoint can be brought up in the facts that are displayed throughout the whole of World War II. While it is believed that he did not truly justify his reason for killing the large mass of people, he was able to do so by the use of propaganda and certain forms of rhetoric. These can all be expressed through his speeches. The first speech that Adolf Hitler began to use rhetoric was his speech at Salzburg in August of 1920. This speech was the first of many (Hitler and Nazis, Statements Concerning Jews and Judaism). The cultural influences of Adolf Hitler began with his experiences with the Jewish Community. He had believed that due to them being heavily unaffected by the first World War, they were the cause of Germany’s downfall during it (Trueman). Lastly, the ultimate question of “Does the end ever justify the means?” will be answered with proper reference to reasons toward the answer.
The style of rhetoric was used in multiple speeches created by Adolf Hitler to convince the German people to blame the Jewish Community for the downfall of Germany in World War I. The first speech to be analyzed is his speech delivered in Salzburg, Germany on t...

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...d for the Jewish Community. Overall, the Holocaust created a large indent in the timeline of the world that will never justify its reasons for killing sixty million people.

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