adolg hitler: his monstrosity

Adolf Hitler’s rise to power as the chancellor of Germany is one of history’s great political success stories. He was known to be an uneducated common soldier in World War I, who had been a failure in all in his undertakings. He eventually rose to power in 1933, in a country that was devastated both socially and politically. Within five years, he had given his nation stability and hope. They started to hail him as the leader and savior because he eradicated unemployment, stabilized the currency, provided social legislation, and reformed the military. He also built magnificent freeways and promised automobiles to every laboring man. If Hitler had died before World War II, he may well have been remembered as the greatest and one of the most outstanding leaders in German history. However, later on his political career, he ordered and also committed atrocities like the order for the extermination Jews and the elimination of every potential enemy in the occupied Eastern territories. He was fully aware of mass executions of Jewish civilians in these territories that make him one of the most monstrous leaders in world history. A look at his benevolent work at the beginning of his political career and his malevolence at the peak and towards the end of his life lead us to view him in two perspectives; thus he seemed to be once a mentally ill person and a brilliant political leader. I refuse to see him from just one perspective since he was human and he had evil in him. In the book, Psychopathic God by Robert Waite, a leading German Biographer, A. J. P. Taylor has come to the conclusion that Hitler was “a neurotic character who was imprisoned by an overpowering neurotic psychosis” (Waite xvi).

Undoubtedly, Adolf Hitler was evil. But he can...

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...or group of people that posed a threat to his ideologies. He ordered to have his generals and subordinates who did not side with him on very important issues, hanged. From a careful look at the life of Hitler and what he did from the beginning of his political career through to the end of his life shows a man who was mentally ill. There were other people in his generation who went through a hard childhood and there were people during that age and time who were tortured in prison; but not all of them rose to power and committed atrocities like Adolf Hitler did. Hitler exhibited some very weird physical attributes like his infantilism and some very complicated personal qualities like love for decapitation. His ideologies were very inhumane too. All these points to a man who was not crazy as influenced by his environmental or social factors but mentally was not stable.