Adolph Hitler

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Man of Evil

The world has come to know Adolph Hitler for his insatiable greed for power, his ruthlessness, cruelty and utter lack-of feeling, his contempt for established institutions and his lack of moral restraints. In the course of relatively few years he has contrived to usurp such tremendous power that a few veiled threats, accusations or insinuations were sufficient to make the world tremble. In open defiance of treaties he occupied huge territories and conquered millions of people without even firing a shot. When the world became tired of being frightened and concluded that it was all a bluff, he initiated the most brutal and devastating war in history - a war which, for a time, threatened the complete destruction of our civilization. Human life and human suffering seem to leave this individual completely untouched as he plunges along the course he believes he was predestined to take.

Hitler always had a temper. In school if he wasn't in control, or the leader of the group he lashed out. He was an incredibly smart child; he was constantly reading. However, he dropped out of high school to attend an art school which he failed to get into for they felt that his work was more suitable for architecture. It is ironic this came to pass, especially in the future when he begins to shape the architecture of Germany and produces the pristine paintings that many know so well. He was a strong willed person, a born leader. Unfortunately, his ideas about the world were entirely formed from his own experience and that of the socialist books he read. Hitler was definitely capable of great things, but unfortunately, would not be pushed in a direction of another's opinions. He was always right, and no one would convince him otherwise....

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...haracter. He bought about a horrifying reality in which races were intended to be wiped out. How did he have so much power? I don't know, but I do know I hope there is never anyone like him again.

Works Cited

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