The Leadership Roles of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini

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Many would say that Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were both awful men and even worse leaders in their countries. But, if you really sat down to think about how they ran their form of government, they were actually two of the most vainglorious leaders in the world at that time. Hitler was able to go from being a soldier in World War I to being the supreme leader of Germany. Benito was able to go from being a brief schoolteacher, to being a 10-year journalist.
Although Hitler was not born in Germany, he led Germany in 1933 until his death on April 30, 1945. Adolf would do anything at the time to not be put into the Austrian military. He ended up moving to Munich, Germany in May of 1913 and he enlisted into the German army once World War I had started. Hitler earned the highest of honors that the German military gives out, the Iron Cross, which he had gotten two of. He acquired two major injuries throughout his time in the war. One occurred in October 1916 when a grenade had gone off and the shrapnel had hit him. The second was two years later in 1918 when Hitler went temporarily blind from being gassed. An armistice was claimed while Adolf was recovering from the gas attack, this made him furious to know that Germany had surrendered and felt deeply that its leaders had “stabbed in the back” the promise land (Smith).
Hitler was furious with Germany’s surrender in World War I, so when he got back to his home in Munich, he was determined to enter politics and become the greatest leader in German history (Smith). He spent all of his time and effort trying to become the chancellor of Germany. Once he was voted into being chancellor, he needed a way to become the leader of all of Germany. Hitler gathered power through many acts of t...

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...ath taking in more way then anyone could ever explain in good and bad ways.
On the other hand there is Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler’s ally during World War II.

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"History, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) [a]." BBC. BBC, n.d. Web. 1 Apr. 2014.
"Italy 1900-1939, Benito Mussolini." History Learning Site. N.p., 8 Oct. 2000. Web. 8 Apr. 2014.
Megargee, Geoffrey. "History, Hitler's Leadership Style [b]." BBC. BBC, n.d. Web. 1 Apr. 2014.
Schweitzer, Hans. "Organized Will of the Nation." Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources. Ed. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 231-234. Student Resources in Context. Web. 27 Mar. 2014.
Smith, Patricia. "1933: Hitler Comes to Power." Scholastic. Scholastic, n.d. Web. 7 Apr. 2014.

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