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'''{{Dictator bio| image =[[Image:Hitler7.JPG|200px]]| name =Adolf Hitler''' was born | birth =April 20, 1889 in Branau Am <br/>Braunau am Inn, AustriaAustria–Hungary| parents =[[Alois Hitler]] (Schicklgruber)<br/>[[Klara Hitler]]| religion =Roman Catholic (rejected), [[Pantheism]],<ref>[https://books. He died google.com/books?id=lxphjwEACAAJ&dq=hitler%27s+religion&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6kcCK0M7QAhVMJiYKHa5EDWQQ6AEIJDAA Hitler's Religion: The Twisted Beliefs That Drove the Third Reich]</ref> [[Atheism]],<ref name="Today's atheists">[https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/03/20/todays-atheists-are-bullies-and-are-doing-their-best-to-intimidate-rest-us-into-silence.html Today's atheists are bullies -- and they are doing their best to intimidate the rest of us into silence] at Fox News</ref> [[Evolutionism]]| spouse =[[Eva Braun]] (m. 1945, d. 1945)| children =none| death =April 30, 1945. His dictatorial rule of (aged 56) <br/>Berlin, Germany | deathmanner =Suicide by gunshot| education =Realschule<br/>Linz, Austria| country =[[Third Reich|Germany]]| military =16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment<br/>Imperial German Army (1914-1918)| rank =''Obergefreiter'' (Lance Corporal/Private First Class)|burial = none, which led to the deaths of millions before and during burned.| polbeliefs =[[Socialism]]<br/>[[National Socialism]] (Nazism)| party =German Workers' Party<br/>(''Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'' 1919–1920)<br/>[[Nazi Party|National Socialist German Workers' Party]]<br/>(''Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'' 1920–1945)| dictatordate =March 23, 1933| war =[[World War II]] in Europe| deathnumber =12, has placed him among history's most hated villains. 000,000+ exclusive of battle casualties20,000,000 to 25,000,000 altogether

"Adolf Hitler or the incarnation of absolute evil; this is how future generations will remember the all-powerful Fuehrer of the criminal Third Reich. Compared with himRummel: 21, his peers [[Mussolini]] and [[Franco]] were novices. Under his hypnotic gaze000, humanity crossed a threshold from which one could see the abyss. "Before Hitler, we thought we had sounded the depths of human nature," argues Ron Rosenbaum, author of "Explaining Hitler." "He showed how much lower we could go, and that's what was so horrifying. It gets us wondering not just at the depths he showed us but whether there is worse to come. The power of Hitler was to confound the modernist notion that judgments about good and evil were little more than matters of taste, reflections of social class and power and status. Although some modern scholars drive past the notion of evil and instead explain Hitler's conduct as a reflection of his childhood and self-esteem issues, for most survivors of the 20th century he is confirmation of our instinctive sense that evil does exist. It moves among us; it leads us astray and deploys powerful, subtle weapons against even the sturdiest souls." [http://ronrosenbaum.pajamasmedia.com/2006/08/23/about_this_blogger.php]000}}

'''Adolf Hitler''' (April 20, 1889 &ndash; April 30, 1945) was the Austrian-born Chancellor of [[Elie WieselNazi Germany|Germany]] wrote famouslyfrom January 30, and most eloquently about Hitler in 1998: "At the same time that he terrorized his adversaries, he knew how to please1933, impress and charm the very interlocutors ''[[Der Fuhrer|Führer]]'' of Germany from whom he wanted support. Diplomats and journalists insist as much on his charm as they do on his temper tantrums. The savior admired by his own as he dragged them into his madnessAugust 2, the Satan and exterminating angel feared and hated by all others1934, Hitler led until his people to a shameful defeat without precedentdeath on April 30, 1945. That his He was also the leader of the [[Nazi Party|National Socialist German Workers' Party]] (''Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei''; NSDAP or Nazi Party) which gained political power through threat, intimidation, and strategic ambitions have created a dividing line outright violence throughout Germany in the history aftermath of this turbulent the [[First World War]]. He was born and tormented century is undeniable: there is baptized as a before and an after. By the breadth of Roman Catholic, but he never took religion seriously beyond initially rebelling against his crimesCatholic father by showing preferences for Lutheran Protestantism in predominantly Catholic Austria, which have attained a as well as using quasi-ontological dimension, he surpasses all religious rhetoric in his predecessors: as a result of Hitlerbook, man is defined by what makes him inhuman''[[Mein Kampf]]'' and in speeches in order to not lose potential religious supporters and voting blocs. With Hitler at the head of a gigantic laboratoryHe was far more interested in [[Social Darwinism]]. After having minor wounds from an assassination bombing attempt in 1944, life itself seems Hitler abused drugs originally intended to have changedhelp with his injuries long after he had recovered from his injuries.

Hitler in his youth was a financially-irresponsible [[Bohemia]]n (a German word of the time roughly the same as the English term "[[Hippy]]") who became broke after spending his father's inheritance wandering around Austria as a watercolour artist, practicing [[vegetarianism]], and rarely attempting to seek serious employment. Hitler worked with a Jewish art dealer and after being rejected entry into Vienna's leading art school due to his unoriginal art, Hitler was a complete failure and broke. Rather than accept responsibility for his Bohemian lifestyle, Hitler in denial and increasing signs of the mental illness of [[psychosis]], followed the political current in Europe at the time of blaming Jews for exploiting him. Hitler used the teachings of [[Martin Luther]] to promote his anti-Semitic views, similar to the other ways used by the Nazi Party in their effort to reshape and present to the public a much modified version of [[Christianity]]. One which promoted racial purity and Nazi ideology under the false banner known as "positive Christianity." The anti-Semites in Germany refused to acknowledge that Luther, prior to his seeing the Jew's refusal of his outreach to accept the Gospel, was highly sympathetic towards the Jews. It was adopted by a number of misguided Protestants and others who accepted the culture when it did not conform to biblical teachings. Hitler being rebellious to his Catholic father took up a brief interest in Lutheranism and may have been influenced by Luther's anti-Semitic remarks. Hitler without any prospects sought to be conscripted into the German Army (but refused to serve the Austrian army due to many Jews being in it), there Hitler mixed his anti-Semitic views with some of the anti-Semitic factional-Lutheran conservative nationalist aspects (that left-wing historians exaggerate by calling Hitler "far right") in order to be accepted amongst conservative German army officers but also began to adopt radical socialist ideas as revolutionary socialist movements in Germany and elsewhere grew in strength. After World War I, Hitler acted as an army political agent to investigate a small pan-German nationalist party called the German Workers' Party that used the anti-Semitic factional-Lutheran nationalist theme in combination with a revolutionary socialist agenda that denounced Jews as being responsible for capitalism, exploitation of Germany, and for Germany losing World War I. It was anti-Marxist - though only because [[Karl Marx]] was a Jew and due to their anti-Semitic hatred, and saw Marx as no different than capitalist Jews. The Party was disorganized and Hitler with his strong anti-Semitism took advantage of the situation and used demagoguery to raise himself in the party. In February 1920 the party changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (or Nazi Party). He used the party and its members to exact revenge for his psychotic perception of Jews and capitalists as having ruined him in his youth, along with the belief that weak civilian leaders and Jews were responsible for Germany's loss in the First World War, and his psychotic, megalomaniac view of himself as being the "Leader" (German: ''Führer'') of Germany. Many leaders of the Nazi Party were mentally-unbalanced people with delusions of grandeur of both themselves and Germany, such as [[Heinrich Himmler]], and [[Hermann Göring]] who was a morphine addict and an animal rights activist who preferred to have Jews used for scientific experiments. Due to the thematic influence of the historic anti-Semitic faction of conservative Lutheran extremists on the Nazi movement, left-wing Marxist historians have exaggerated the role of conservative Lutherans in the Nazi movement and because of it claim that the Nazis are "far right." They completely ignore and deny the [[far left]] socialist parts of the Nazis, out of political dogmatism just as the Nazis themselves completely denied the socialist elements of Marxism because Marx was Jewish. And left-wing historians almost always neglect to note the very clear similarity of Hitler's loose Bohemian lifestyle as a youth to that of Hippies. Adolf Hitler was an [[evolution]]ary [[racist]] and [[socialism|socialist]] (see also: [[evolutionary racism]]).<ref name="icr.org">https://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=268</ref><ref name="mises.org">http://mises.org/daily/1937</ref><ref name="hourofthetime.com">http://www.hourofthetime.com/socialist.htm</ref> Hitler's policies and beliefs resulted in the [[Genocide|mass extermination]] of the [[Jews]], [[Gypsies]], and other peoples he considered “[[Racial Supremacy|inferior]]” throughout central and eastern [[Europe]] and were directly responsible for the outbreak of [[World War II]], which caused the deaths of untold millions on and off the battlefield and reportedly ended only after Hitler's [[suicide]] in his Berlin bunker. ==Early life==[[File:Hitler Roses.jpg|thumb|Roses by Adolf Hitler.]]Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, [[Austria]]. Hitler's father, Alois (born 1837), was a customs official who was born out of wedlock, carrying for a time his mother's name, Schicklgruber. Evidence uncovered by Hans Frank, Hitler's lawyer, indicates that Alois's father, and by extension, Adolf's grandfather from this affair was a Jewish man named Frankenberger.<ref>https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Study-suggests-Adolf-Hitler-was-a-quarter-Jewish-597966</ref> By 1876 he had his baptismal entry corrected in his church records, establishing his father as Johan Heidler, which was altered slightly to Hitler. Growing up in the ethnically diverse [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]], Hitler held [[Russophobic]] and anti-[[Pan Slavic]]<ref>Stergar, Rok: Panslavism , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2017-07-12. DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.11123. [https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/panslavism]</ref><ref>''[http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CP%5CA%5CPan6Slavism.htm Encyclopedia of Ukraine]'', vol. 3 (1993).</ref> attitudes well before his antisemitism, which came later in his adult life. In ''Mein Kampf'' Hitler wrote:{{quotebox-float|"When the [[Russo-Japanese War]] came I was older and better able to judge for myself. For national reasons I then took the side of the Japanese in our discussions. I looked upon the defeat of the Russians as a blow to Austrian Slavism."<ref>''Mein Kampf'', Chapter V, World War.</ref>}} When his father retired, the family moved to Linz, Austria, where it remained a favorite for young Adolf for the rest of his life, and where he gave his wish to be buried. When Alois died in 1903 he left enough of a pension to support his wife and children; Adolf would take his and live off of it in Vienna after leaving school, dreaming of becoming an artist. Although somewhat competent as a painter of landscapes and architecture, his renderings of humans were considered “lifeless” and “crude” by the standards of the Academy of Fine Arts, and his application was rejected twice. Remaining in [[Vienna]], he moved from one cheap flop house to another, painting postcards and advertisements to earn a meager living after his allowance had dried up. By then he had developed traits which characterized his life as a whole: secretiveness, loneliness, a Spartan mode of everyday life, and a hatred of the cosmopolitan, multinational character that was the makeup of Vienna. ''He never sought a proper job or regular employment. Instead he immersed himself in the works of [[Hegel]], [[Nietzsche]], and the anti-Semitic writings of the Englishman [[Houston Stewart Chamberlain]]. He loved the operas of Wagner, and the stories of the Nordic Gods... In early 1910, he entered a shelter for the homeless, populated in the main by poor Jews, on Meldemenstrasse, and was eating at soup kitchens. By this time he had pawned all his belongings.''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111015014300/http://socyberty.com/history/young-adolf-the-adolescent-hitler-and-beyond/ Young Adolf: The Adolescent Hitler and Beyond.]</ref> ==Who and what he was==[[Image:Cupid Complaining to Venus by Lucas Cranach.jpg|150px|left|thumb|This painting, one of the best-loved paintings in the National Gallery, had once belonged to Hitler. New evidence has come to light that Lucas Cranach's ''Cupid Complaining to Venus'', currently on loan to an exhibition in Bristol, hung on the sitting-room wall of his flat in Munich.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/mar/28/art.secondworldwar Hitler owned painting now in National Gallery]</ref>]][[Elie Wiesel]] wrote famously, and most eloquently about Hitler in 1998:<blockquote>''"At the same time that he terrorized his adversaries, he knew how to please, impress and charm the very interlocutors from whom he wanted support. Diplomats and journalists insist as much on his charm as they do on his temper tantrums. The savior admired by his own as he dragged them into his madness, the Satan and exterminating angel feared and hated by all others, Hitler led his people to a shameful defeat without precedent. That his political and strategic ambitions have created a dividing line in the history of this turbulent and tormented century is undeniable: there is a before and an after. By the breadth of his crimes, which have attained a quasi-ontological dimension, he surpasses all his predecessors: as a result of Hitler, man is defined by what makes him inhuman. With Hitler at the head of a gigantic laboratory, life itself seems to have changed."''</blockquote> <blockquote>''"How did this Austrian without title or position manage to get himself elected head of a German nation renowned for its civilizing mission? How to explain the success of his cheap demagogy in the heart of a people so proud of having inherited the genius of a Wolfgang von Goethe and an Immanuel Kant? "''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''"Was there no resistance to his disastrous projects? There was. But it was too feeble, too weak and too late to succeed. German society had rallied behind him: the judicial, the educational, the industrial and the economic establishments gave him their support. Few politicians of this century have aroused, in their lifetime, such love and so much hate; few have inspired so much historical and psychological research after their death. Even today, works on his enigmatic personality and his cursed career are best sellers everywhere. Some are good, others are less good, but all seem to respond to an authentic curiosity on the part of a public haunted by memory and the desire to understand."''</blockquote>[[File:Hitler Siegestor Munich Victory Gate.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Watercolor of the Arch of Triumph in Munich by Hitler.]]<blockquote>''"We think we know everything about the nefarious forces that shaped his destiny: his unhappy childhood, his frustrated adolescence; his artistic disappointments; his wound received on the front during World War I; his taste for spectacle, his constant [[class warfare|disdain for social and military aristocracies]]; his relationship with [[Eva Braun]], who adored him; the cult of the very death he feared; his lack of scruples with regard to his former comrades of the SA, whom he had assassinated in 1934; his endless hatred of [[Jews]], whose survival enraged him — each and every phase of his official and private life has found its chroniclers, its biographers."''</blockquote>

We think we know everything about the nefarious forces <blockquote>''"And yet. There are, in all these givens, elements that shaped his destiny: escape us. How did this unstable paranoid find it within himself to impose gigantic hope as an immutable ideal that motivated his unhappy childhoodnation almost until the end? Would he have come to power if Germany were not going through endless economic crises, his frustrated adolescence; his artistic disappointments; his wound received or if the winners in 1918 had not imposed on it conditions that represented a national humiliation against which the front during World War I; his taste for spectacle, his constant disdain for social and military aristocracies; his relationship with German patriotic fiber could only revolt? We would be wrong to forget: Hitler came to power in January 1933 by the most legitimate means. His [[Eva BraunNationalist Socialist Party]], who adored won a majority in the parliamentary elections. The aging [[Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg]] had no choice but to allow him; , at age 43, to form the cult of new government, marking the very death he feared; his lack of scruples with regard to his former comrades end of the SA, whom he had assassinated in 1934; his endless hatred Weimar Republic. And the beginning of the [[JewsThird Reich]], whose survival enraged him — each and every phase of his official and private life has found its chroniclerswhich, according to Hitler, would last 1, its biographers000 years. "''</blockquote>

And yet. There are, in all these givens, elements <blockquote>''"From that escape us. How did this unstable paranoid find it within himself to impose gigantic hope as an immutable ideal that motivated his nation almost until the end? Would he have come to power if Germany were not going through endless economic crisesmoment on, or if the winners in 1918 had not imposed on it conditions that represented a national humiliation against which the German patriotic fiber could only revolt? ''We would be wrong to forget: Hitler came to power in January 1933 by the most legitimate meansevents cascaded. His Nationalist Socialist Party won a majority in The burning of the parliamentary elections.'' The aging [[Field Marshal Paul von HindenburgReichstag]] had no choice but to allow him, at age 43, to form came only a little before the new governmentopenings of the first concentration camps, marking the end established for members of the Weimar Republicopposition. And Fear descended on the beginning of the Third Reichcountry and squeezed it in a vise. Great writers, which, according musicians and painters went into exile to France and the U.S. Jews with foresight emigrated toward Palestine. The air of Hitler's Germany was becoming more and more suffocating. Those who preferred to wait, thinking that the Nazi regime would not last, could not last 1,000 yearswould regret it later, when it was too late. "''</blockquote>

From <blockquote>''"The fact is that moment onHitler was beloved by his people — not the military, events cascaded. The burning of at least not in the [[Reichstag]] came only a little before beginning, but by the openings of the first concentration campsaverage Germans who pledged to him an affection, established for members of a tenderness and a fidelity that bordered on the oppositionirrational. Fear descended It was idolatry on the country and squeezed it in a visenational scale. Great writers, musicians and painters went into exile One had to France and see the Ucrowds who acclaimed him.S. Jews with foresight emigrated toward Palestine. The air of Hitler's Germany was becoming more and more suffocating. Those And the women who preferred were attracted to wait, thinking that him. And the Nazi regime would young who in his presence went into ecstasy. Did they not last, could see the hateful mask that covered his face? Did they not last, would regret it later, when it was too latedivine the catastrophe he bore within himself?<ref name="time">http://www. time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/hitler.html"''</ref></blockquote>

==Birth and pre political lifeBeliefs =={{See also|Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism}}According to [[Albert Speer]], Hitler never left the Catholic Church, but was hostile to its teachings. He did admire its power. Hitler only mentioned [[Christianity]] in his speeches to gain votes and favor. He and Nazi Party also presented to the public what was known as "positive Christianity," which in reality was only an attempt to mold Christian theology to match Hitler's world view. The "Protestant Reich Church" promoted racial purity, excluded many parts of the Bible, stated that Jesus was not Jewish but Nordic, while proclaiming Hitler as the "new messiah." In the end, any voiced tolerance of true Christianity during the 1930s changed to targeted persecution, mainly of Protestant "resisters" to Nazism.<ref>McNab, Chris. ''The Third Reich''. (2009) pp. 182, 183</ref>

He was born in 1889 in [[Austria]]. His mother was his father's niece, and the incestuous relationship Although Hitler may have impacted development of Hitler's psychopathic nature. Later on Hitler became involved with had some Christian rhetoric in his own niecespeeches, and this appears to have been he certainly rejected it on a pattern in Hitlerpersonal level. In the book, ''s family extending back several generations and explains Hitler's attitudes about intermarriageTable Talk'', it reveals that Hitler thought of Christianity as a great "scourge" of history.<ref>http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/facts/fm0110.htm (backup link [https://web.archive.org/web/20071109101106/https://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/facts/fm0110.htm here])</ref>

After leaving home he worked as an artisan painter. In Hitler did not do particularly well in school's ''Table Talk'', leaving formal education which were published in 1905. Unable to settle to a regular job1953, he drifted. He wished to become an artist but it was rejected from the Academy in Vienna. He immigrated to revealed that Hitler, at some point, embraced [[Germanyatheism]] and served while rejecting Christianity as an enlisted soldier in invention of Judaism, which he held similar animosity toward:{{cquote|And while many atheists make the Imperial Bavarian Army preposterous claim that Adolf Hitler was a Christian, his private diaries, first published in [[World War I]]1953 by Farrar, Straus and gained Young, reveal clearly that the rank Führer was a rabid atheist: "The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity," Hitler stated, "was the coming of corporalChristianity. He won several awards for bravery, including Bolshevism is Christianity’s illegitimate child. Both are inventions of the Iron Cross First ClassJew… Our epoch will certainly see the end of the disease of Christianity."<ref name="Today's atheists"/>}}

After the war ended=== Hitler, Nazism and socialism ===[[Image:Hitler's future seemed uncertain. There was much discontent among demobilized veterans because jpg|thumb|250px|right|One of the lack best known political parties of employment. The German military had felt it had not been defeated, indeed the German Army stood on foreign soil when the Armistice 20th century was signed November 11, 1918 and not a square inch of German soul had been occupied. The Army felt they had done their job, and the nation had been [[socialism|socialistic]] "stabbed in the back[[Nazi Party|National Socialist German Workers' Party]]" (Nazi Party), headed by a gang of traitors who sought to lay hands on the Fatherland[[Evolutionary racism|evolutionary racist]] Adolf Hitler. The <ref name="mythmises.org" that Germany had been defeated was the >http://mises.org/daily/1937</ref><ref name="big liehourofthetime.com" Hitler spoke /><ref>https://creation.com/darwinism-and-the-nazi-race-holocaust</ref> ]]''For more information please see:'' [[Nazism and socialism]]The [[Ludwig von Mises Institute]] declares:{{cquote|The identification of [[Third Reich|Nazi Germany]] as repeating often enough people will begin to believe ita socialist state was one of the many great contributions of [[Ludwig von Mises]]...

Many returning Army units remained intact, despite no longer directly under command The basis of the German Army because of limitations set upon it by the Treaty of Versailles. The situation claim that Nazi Germany was highly politicized, and it appears Hitler capitalist was sent to spy originally upon a small splinter group called National Socialist German Workers’ Party (the fact that most industries in Nazi) were he found only a shell of an organization, but a willing audience Germany appeared to hear him talk. By 1921 he became leader of the group. With terrible economic conditions and rapid inflation, support for Hitler’s party grew. By 1923, the Nazi’s had 56,000 members and many more supportersbe left in private hands.

==Beer Hall Putsch==Germany in 1923 was marked by social and political unrest caused by hyperinflation. In this time Hitler What Mises identified was able convince [[Erich Ludendorff]], an accomplished general and leader that private ownership of the German forces means of production existed in name only under the first World War, to join him in a coup d'etat (''Putsch'' Nazis and that the actual substance of ownership of the means of production resided in the German)government. When Hitler learned For it was the German government and not the nominal private owners that exercised all of the nationalist Prime Minister substantive powers of Bavaria ownership: it, not the nominal private owners, decided what was giving a speech to 3000 officials be produced, in one of Munich's biggest beer hallswhat quantity, he ordered his paratroopers to surround the building. Hitler went into building and took the prime minister hostageby what methods, in an attempt and to convince him whom it was to join Hitler's coup against Berlinbe distributed, as well as what prices would be charged and what wages would be paid, and what dividends or other income the nominal private owners would be permitted to become member in his new administrationreceive. The Bavarian prime minister agreed under pressure, but informed later that night position of the nation via radioalleged private owners, Mises showed, was reduced essentially to that he did not support Hitlerof government pensioners.

The next morningDe facto government ownership of the means of production, 9 November 1923as Mises termed it, Hitler and Ludendorff were marching with approximately 2000 partly armed supporters through Munich in a show of strength. They were stopped was logically implied by Bavarian armed such fundamental collectivist principles embraced by the Nazis as that the common good comes before the private good and police forces. In the ensuing fight at least 14 Nazi supporters, three police men, were killed, and hundreds wounded. Ludendorff handed himself over individual exists as a means to the authorities, while Hitler fled soon after ends of the fighting beganState. Hitler was arrested If the individual is a few days later at a friends house, were had been in hiding since means to the ends of the failed coup. Ludendorff was acquitted from all chargesState, while Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison. In Landsberg prison Hitler wrote so too, of course, is his book ''[[Mein Kampf]]''property. He was already released in 1924Just as he is owned by the State, after one year of prisonhis property is also owned by the State.<ref>http://history1900sname="mises.about.com/cs/thirdreich/a/beerhallputsch_2.htm</ref><reforg">http://wwwmises.historyplace.comorg/worldwar2daily/timeline/putsch2.htm1937</ref>}}

==Path to Power= Hitler and the Theory of Evolution ===In the early 1930 Germany was in a permanent political ''For more information please see:'' [[Evolutionary racism]] and constitutional crisis[[Social effects of the theory of evolution]]The staunch [[evolution]]ist Stephen Gould admitted the following: [[Image:Hitlerrisetopower. This jpg|right|225px|thumb]] {{cquote|[[Ernst Haeckel|[Ernst] Haeckel]] was caused by rising unemployment during the great depression, combined with frustration about the perceived injustice imposed on chief apostle of evolution in [[Germany by ]].... His evolutionary racism; his call to the Versailles treaty, street violence between various pro German people for racial purity and anti-democratic militiasunflinching devotion to a "just" state; his belief that harsh, and an inability inexorable laws of evolution ruled human civilization and nature alike, conferring upon favored races the democratic parties right to cooperate. This resulted dominate others; the irrational mysticism that had always stood in a strange communion with his brave words about objective science - all contributed to the rise of Nazism. - both ends of the political spectrum; [[communists]] on one side Stephen J. Gould, "Ontogeny and [[Nazi| national socialist]] on the otherPhylogeny," Belknap Press: Cambridge MA, 1977, pp. The national socialist were also simply known as ''Hitler movement''77-78.<ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/social. html</ref>}}

In the first election of 1932 communists Robert E.D. Clark in his work ''Darwin: Before and national socialist together won After'' wrote concerning Hitler's evolutionary racism:{{cquote|The Germans were the majority of seats in the Reichstaghigher race, destined for a glorious evolutionary future. This means For this reason it was essential that the anti-democratic forces outnumbered the democratic forcesJews should be segregated, otherwise mixed marriages would take place. In a second election that yearWere this to happen, the national socialists lost ground, but the democratic forces were still unable all nature’s efforts 'to form a functioning government. After a series establish an evolutionary higher stage of minority cabinets former Chancellor van Papen convinced President Hindenburg to appoint Hitler to Chancellor in a coalition government with the national conservative party. Van Papen expected the nation would recognize Hitler to being may thus be a fraud within a few months in government. The national socialist celebrated the ''Machtergreifung'rendered futile' (''seizure of powerMein Kampf'' in German) on January 30, 1933, with massive marches through Berlin. Two days later new elections for parliament were announced for March<ref>http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1675</ref>}}

== Consolidation of Power ==Hitler wrote in ''Mein Kampf'':In the lead up to the 1933 election oppression {{cquote|The stronger must dominate and harassment of political opponents increased. On February 27, 1933, six day before not blend with the Reichstag electionweaker, the Dutch National and communist Marinus van der Lubbe was caught setting the Reichstag on firethus sacrificing his own greatness. While Only the exact events surrounding born weakling can view this event are still contendedas cruel, it was blamed on but he, after all, is only a communist conspiracy. President Hindenburg signed the Reichtag Fire decree the next day, which increased Hitlers powers weak and gave him the opportunity to arrest political opponentslimited man; for if this law did not prevail, among them elected members any conceivable higher development (Hoherentwicklung) of parliamentorganic living beings would be unthinkable. <ref name="icr.org">https://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=268</ref>}}

In the election the national socialist failed to win a majority, but the newly formed Reichstag voted Dr. Robert E.D. Clark wrote in favor of an Enabling Acthis work ''Darwin, giving Before and After'' the national socialist government following regarding Hitler and the power to enact new laws without interference from parliament or constitution. In the summer theory of 1933 evolution: “Adolf Hitler’s mind was captivated by evolutionary teaching — probably since the Nazi government declared first the communist and social democratic party illegal, briefly afterwards all other partiestime he was a boy. At Evolutionary ideas — quite undisguised — lie at the end basis of the year the Reichstag cast officially into law all that Germany was a one-party-stateis worst in ''Mein Kampf'' — and in his public speeches”.<ref name="courier">http://www.christiancourier. com/articles/read/the_holocaust_why_did_it_happen</ref>

While all political opponents had been neutralized, Hitler was concerned about Richard Hickman in his work ''Biocreation'' concurs and wrote the power of the stormtroopers (SA) under Ernst Roehm. following: {{cquote|It is perhaps no coincidence that Adolf Hitler was a well known within firm believer in and preacher of evolutionism. Whatever the Nazi establishment that Roehm was gaydeeper, profound, complexities of his [[psychosis]], and it is certain that [the concept of struggle was now used against him to discredit himimportant for]. In the so-called . . his book, ''Night of Long KnivesMein Kampf'' clearly set forth a number of evolutionary ideas, particularly those emphasizing struggle, survival of the entire top fittest and extermination of the SA was executed. Among them Ernst Roehm, who was weak to produce a friend Hitler since their time in Landsberg prisonbetter society.<ref>http://www.creationism.org/csshs/v08n3p24. htm</ref>}}

After President Hindenburg death Noted evolutionary [[anthropology|anthropologist]] Sir Arthur Keith conceded the following in 1934, regards to Hitler received also all presidential powers and was declared '': “The German Führer und Reichskanzler'' (leader and chancellor). This was approved in August 1934 by 84% , as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consciously sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the votes in a nationwide plebiscitetheory of evolution”.<ref name="courier" />

[[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning author Marilynne Robinson wrote the following regarding Hitler's racism in the November 2006 issue of ''Harper’s'' magazine:[[File:Richard Dawkins in Australia.jpg|alt=Richard Dawkins|right|thumbnail|200px|The [[New Atheism|new atheist]] [[Richard Dawkins]] is a prominent [[evolution]]ist. [[Richard Dawkins]] stated in an interview: “What’s to prevent us from saying Hitler wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question."<ref name=Holocaust=="byfaithonline.com">http://byfaithonline.com/page/in-the-world/richard-dawkins-the-atheist-evangelist</ref> ]]{{cquote|While it is true that persecution of the Jews has a very long history in [[Europe]], it is also true that science in the twentieth century revived and absolutized persecution by giving it a fresh rationale — Jewishness was not religious or cultural, but genetic. Therefore no appeal could be made against the brute fact of a Jewish grandparent.

The Final Solution to [[Richard Dawkins|[Richard] Dawkins]] deals with all this in one sentence. Hitler did his evil "in the Jewish Question name of ... an insane and unscientific [[eugenics]] theory." But eugenics is science as surely as totemism is religion. That either is in Europe was implemented error is beside the point. Science quite appropriately acknowledges that error should be assumed, and at best it proceeds by a government continuous process of a modern Western state criticism meant to exterminate people of Jewish ancestry throughout Germany isolate and all its occupied territoriesidentify error. Approximately six million people So bad science is still science in more or less the same sense that bad religion is still religion. That both of all ages--men, women and children, were systematically murdered under them can do damage on a policy directed by Adolf Hitlerhuge scale is clear. Other groups The prestige of "undesirables" both is a great part of the problem, and "asocials" were also targeted and killedin the modern period the credibility of anything called science is enormous.[http://wwwAs the history of eugenics proves, science at the highest levels is no reliable corrective to the influence of cultural prejudice but is in fact profoundly vulnerable to it.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/burns.htm]

==July 20, 1944==On July 20, 1944, officers There is indeed historical precedent in the [[Spanish Inquisition]] for the notion of hereditary Judaism. But the German Wehrmacht succeeded in planting a bomb in Hitler's secret headquarters in East Prussia which exploded, killing three and injuring Hitlerfact that the worst religious thought of the sixteenth century can be likened to the worst scientific thought of the twentieth century hardly redounds to the credit of science.<ref>http://solutions.synearth.net/2006/10/20</ref><ref>http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/someone-finally-said-it-dawkinss-hysterical-scientism/</ref>}}

In the aftermath Evolutionist and up until the final days of the War approximately 5[[New Atheism|new atheist]] [[Richard Dawkins]] stated in an interview: “What’s to prevent us from saying Hitler wasn’t right? I mean,000 peoplethat is a genuinely difficult question."<ref name="byfaithonline.com"/> The interviewer wrote, mostly German officersregarding the Hitler comment, were executed "I was stupefied. He had readily conceded that his own [[philosophy|philosophical]] position did not offer a rational basis for treasonmoral judgments. His intellectual honesty was refreshing, disloyalty, or suspected of not offering fanatical resistance to fight to the endif somewhat disturbing on this point."<ref name="byfaithonline.com"/>

==Marriage= Hitler may have been an atheist === Adolf Hitler is theorized to be an [[atheism|atheist]].<ref>https://creation.com/review-hitlers-religion-weikart</ref><ref name="Thomism">http://www.thomism.org/atheism/atheist_murderers.html</ref><ref>https://www.trueorigin.org/hitler01.php</ref> He married reportedly loathed Christianity, and his father considered having faith a "scam".<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/04/20/hitler-hated-judaism-he-loathed-christianity-too/</ref> Richard Weikart, Professor of Modern European History, California State University Stanislaus, theorizes that Hitler was a [[Eva Braunpantheism|pantheist]](which is a type of atheism).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy05t0taBkE What were Hitler’s religious beliefs?] by Richard Weikart</ref> See the video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy05t0taBkE What were Hitler’s religious beliefs?] by Richard Weikart === Adolf Hitler and abortion ===''For more information see:'' [[Abortion and Adolf Hitler]] In 1942 Adolf Hitler declared:{{cquote|In view of the large families of the Slav native population, it could only suit us if girls and women there had as many abortions as possible. We are not interested in seeing the non-[[German]] population multiply…We must use every means to instill in the population the idea that it is harmful to have several children, the expenses that they cause and the dangerous effect on woman's health… It will be necessary to open special institutions for abortions and doctors must be able to help out there in case there is any question of this being a breach of their professional ethics.<ref>https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/sep/07090708.html</ref>}} (The [[atheism|atheist]] [[Marquis de Sade]] is credited with providing the first notable impetus to introduce abortion into western society. See: [[Abortion and atheism]]) ===Other beliefs===Hitler supported [[Animal rights|animal "rights"]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=e7FME0btkH0C&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=hitler+animal+rights&source=bl&ots=PIxjDRDBj1&sig=tbJisPm39hMcxj1g6xL0Kh0sn7g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3qZP7xOPTAhVr4oMKHeTMA_c4FBDoAQhKMAc#v=onepage&q=hitler%20animal%20rights&f=false Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions], pg. 62.</ref><ref>Harrison, David; Paterson, Tony (September 22, 2002). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1407954/Thanks-to-Hitler-hunting-with-hounds-is-still-verboten.html Thanks to Hitler, hunting with hounds is still verboten]. ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved May 9, 2017.</ref><ref name="EllisWash."/> and [[environmentalism]],<ref name="EllisWash.">Washington, Ellis (March 26, 2011). [https://www.wnd.com/2011/03/279449/ The Nazi Cult of the Organic']. ''WND''. Retrieved May 9, 2017.</ref><ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/ecology/nazi_ecology.htm Nazi "Ecology"], Frank Furedi, ''columbia.edu''. Retrieved May 9, 2017.</ref><ref>Musser, Mark (February 6, 2016). [https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/yale_professor_on_nazi_environmentalism_so_close_yet_so_far.html Yale Professor on Nazi Environmentalism: So Close, yet So Far]. ''American Thinker''. Retrieved May 9, 2017.</ref> and that support was reflected in the laws created during the Third Reich. Hitler also enacted [[gun control]] laws.<ref>Wolverton, II, J.D., Joe (January 30, 2017). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/14367-nazi-gun-control-laws-a-familiar-road-to-citizen-disarmament Nazi Gun Control Laws: a Familiar Road to Citizen Disarmament?] ''The New American''. Retrieved May 9, 2017.</ref><ref>Stupp, Herbert W. (July 13, 2015). [https://spectator.org/63424_hitler-and-gun-control/ Hitler and Gun Control]. ''The American Spectator''. Retrieved May 9, 2017.</ref> == Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism ==''See also:'' [[Similarities between Communism, Nazism and liberalism]] {| class="wikitable"|-!![[Communism|Communist]] Manifesto![[Nazi Party]] Platform!Analysis|-|1|"Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes."|"We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land."|The stripping away of land from private owners. [[Liberalism]] today demands "eminent domain" on property.|-|2|"A heavy progressive or graduated income tax." |"We demand the nationalization of all trusts...profit-sharing in large industries...a generous increase in old-age pensions...by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor...and the creation of a national (folk) army."|The points raised in the Nazi platform demand an increase in taxes to support them. Liberalism today demands heavy progressive and graduated income taxes.|-|3|"Abolition of all rights of inheritance." |"That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished." |Liberalism today demands a "death tax" on anyone inheriting an estate.|-|4|"Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels."|"We demand that all non-Germans who have entered Germany since August 2, 1914, shall be compelled to leave the Reich immediately."|The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 allowed Germany to take Jewish property.|-|5|"Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly."|"We demand the nationalization of all trusts."|Central control of the financial system.|-|6|"Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State."|"We demand that there be a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press...editors and their assistants on newspapers published in the German language shall be German citizens...Non-German newspapers shall only be published with the express permission of the State...the punishment for transgressing this law be the immediate suppression of the newspaper..."|Central control of the press. Liberals today demand control or suppression of talk radio and Fox News.|-|7|"Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c." |"In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State. "|Central control of education, with an emphasis on doing things their way. Liberals today are doing things ''their way'' in our schools.|-|} ==War==[[Image:Hitler munich1914.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Hitler in the crowd in Munich, 1914, reacting to the news of Germany's entry in the First World War.]]By 1913 Hitler was in Munich, Germany, with war clouds on the horizon. Hitler wrote of his reaction to hearing the news of the assassination of [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand]]:{{quotebox-float|"At first I feared that the shots may have been fired by some German-Austrian students who had been aroused to a state of furious indignation by the persistent pro-[[Slav]] activities of the Heir to the Habsburg Throne and therefore wished to liberate the German population from this internal enemy. It was quite easy to imagine what the result of such a mistake would have been. It would have brought on a new wave of persecution, the motives of which would have been 'justified' before the whole world. But soon afterwards I heard the names of the presumed assassins and also that they were known to be [[Serb]]s. I felt somewhat dumbfounded in face of the inexorable vengeance which Destiny had wrought. The greatest friend of the Slavs had fallen a victim to the bullets of Slav patriots.<ref>''Mein Kampf'', Chapter V, World War.</ref>}} Classified as unfit for service in the Austrian army (possibly by faking, as he did not like the thought of serving Austria) in 1914, he volunteered for the German Army, joining the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment, greeting the war with enthusiasm, and finding the military discipline and comradeship satisfying. He served during the entire [[First World War]] as a messenger carrying dispatches between units, and often at the front lines under fire; he was wounded in 1916, and gassed in 1918. His bravery during this time earned him the [[Iron Cross]], 2nd Class, in December, 1914, and in August 1918 he was awarded the Iron Cross, 1st Class – a rare decoration for a corporal. But the gassing would take him out of the war and into a hospital, where he would be told the heart-wrenching news of Germany's defeat the following November. ==Path to power==After the war ended, Hitler's future seemed uncertain. There was much discontent among demobilized veterans because of the lack of employment. The German military had felt it had not been defeated; indeed, the German Army stood on foreign soil when the Armistice was signed November 11, 1918 and not a square inch of German soil had been occupied. This was despite the fact that the German Army's strongest position, the Hindenburg line, had been broken by the Allies, and the German Army itself was in full retreat. However, the army felt they had done their job, and the nation had been "stabbed in the back" by a gang of traitors made up of civilian political leaders who betrayed the Fatherland. The "myth" that Germany had been defeated was the "big lie" Hitler spoke of, as if repeating it often enough would cause people to believe it. After his discharge from the hospital, Hitler acted as an army political agent, assigned in Munich to gather information on the various political parties which had spring up amid the social chaos following Germany's defeat. In September 1919, he was given orders to investigate the relatively-minor German Workers' Party (''Deutsche Arbeiterpartei''; DAP); intrigued by the party's apparatus and its racial, pan-German nationalism, he joined, becoming its 55th member. He remained on the army payroll until he was discharged in March 1920. By then, the party had changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (''Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei''; NSDAP) or Nazi Party. Hitler had already devoted himself to improving the party's propaganda, as well as his own position within. Conditions in Germany fostered the development of the party. Economic woes brought widespread discontent, added to the furor surrounding the loss of the war and the harsh terms heaped upon Germany by the Allied Powers in the Versailles Peace Treaty. Bavaria's traditional separatism from the central government in Berlin made current conditions especially sharp, and Hitler was savvy enough to take full advantage of them. When he joined, he found the party ineffective in leadership and uncertain as to its aims; he accepted the party program, but regarded it as a means to an end. He caused friction with other members of the party, and their attempts to control him caused a threat of resignation; realizing that the future of the party now depended on Hitler, who clearly had a talent of organization, fund collecting, and above all, speaking, they declined to accept it; from July, 1921 Hitler was the party leader with nearly unlimited power. From his party newspaper, ''Völkischer Beobachter'' ("Popular Observer"), he spewed out propaganda. The meetings where he spoke grew from mere handfuls to hundreds, and then to thousands. A man of charismatic personality, he quickly attracted a circle of loyal and devoted followers: [[Rudolf Hess]], [[Hermann Göring]], Julius Streicher, and Alfred Rosenberg. Munich was also a gathering place for former servicemen dissatisfied with conditions in the country; members of the Freikorps, which had been organized after the war from army units that refused to return to civilian life; and those civilians who plotted against the republic. Many of these men joined the Nazi Party. Among them was a staff member of the district command who had joined the German Workers' Party before Hitler, [[Ernst Röhm]], a pudgy man with a scared face who saw his own ambition in helping further Hitler's rise within the party. Röhm recruited what came to be known as the "Brown Shirts," the violent squads used by the Nazis to attack rival socialists, battle Communists, and to protect party meetings whenever Hitler was speaking. By 1921 they were organized into a private army of the Party called the ''[[Sturmabteilung]]'', abbreviated to SA. ==The Beer Hall Putsch==Germany in 1923 was marked by social and political unrest caused by hyperinflation. In this time Hitler was able convince [[Erich Ludendorff]], an accomplished general and leader of the German forces in the first World War, to join him in a coup d'état (''Putsch'' in German). When Hitler learned that the nationalist prime minister of Bavaria was giving a speech to 3000 officials in one of Munich's biggest beer halls (the Haufbrau Haus), he ordered his paramilitaries to surround the building. Hitler went inside and took the prime minister hostage, announced a revolution, and attempted to convince him to join the coup against Berlin and become member in his new administration. The Bavarian prime minister agreed under pressure, but informed the nation via radio later that night that he did not support Hitler. The prime minister also informed the federal government in Berlin; the putsch had begun to fail.  The next morning, 9 November 1923, Hitler and Ludendorff were marching with approximately 2000 partly armed supporters through Munich in a show of strength to regain the momentum. In the ensuing fight between Hitler's marchers and a cordon of police and army units at least 14 Nazi supporters and three policemen were killed and hundreds wounded. Ludendorff handed himself over to the authorities, while Hitler fled soon after the fighting began. Hitler was arrested a few days later at a friend's house, were had been in hiding since the failed coup. Ludendorff was acquitted of all charges, while Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison (he would serve eight months).<ref>http://history1900s.about.com/cs/thirdreich/a/beerhallputsch_2.htm</ref><ref>http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/putsch2.htm</ref> The Bavarian prime minister, who foiled the plan, was killed in 1934 in the "Night of the Long Knives." ===''Mein Kampf''==={{main|Mein Kampf}}Hitler had his inner circle as frequent visitors in his prison cell, which was made more comfortable due to his celebrity. While there, he dictated to Rudolf Hess the first volume of ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' (“My Struggle”), his political autobiography and a compendium of his many ideas, including his [[evolutionist]] ideas. Hitler believed in the inequality of the races, nations, and individuals as part of the natural order of mankind, and chief among them was the exalted “Aryan race”, and the greatest of the Aryans were the Germans. It was the German, according to Hitler, that gave the world civilization and the arts; to safeguard the German people as a race (the “Volk”), they would need to be united under a single leader (the ''Führer''), where they would be protected from their three principle enemies: Marxism, which included social democracy as well as communism; democracy and its mob-rule, as shown by the failings of the Weimar Republic; and above all what Hitler called the poisoners of humanity, the Jews. “Rational anti-Semitism must lead to systematic legal opposition,” he wrote in 1919. “Its final objective must be the removal of the Jews altogether.” In ''Mein Kampf'', he told the world that the Jew was the “destroyer of culture,” “a parasite within the nation,” and “a menace.” From ''Mein Kampf'':{{cquote|The Jew "... he blares out his merits to the rest of the world until people really begin to believe in them. Anyone who does not believe in them is doing him a bitter injustice. In a short time he begins to twist things around to make it look as if all the injustice in the world had always been done to him and not the other way around." <ref>[http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/mkv1ch11.html Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.]</ref> }} {{cquote| Hitler portrays Jews as leaders in politics and banking, both groups seeking to strengthen their cause, [[Zionism]], to ensure Jewish domination. From his Social Darwinist perspective, Hitler perceived a racial war as inevitable and he sought to halt the "[[Jewish]] drive towards world conquest"... As Berlin collapsed around him, Adolf asserted: "Out of the ruins of our towns and monuments hatred will grow against those finally responsible for everything, International Jewry." <ref>[http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=32043&amid=30237234 ''Mein Kampf'' – The Text, its Themes and Hitler’s Vision] Robert Carr dissects a book frequently referred to but seldom read.</ref>}} ===''Zweites Buch''==={{main|Zweites Buch}}Hitler's second book, completed in 1928 but not published until 1961, expands on Hitler's Darwinian views and also puts on display overtones of [[Malthusianism]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=I0TDSnJFGGoC&pg=PA152 The Rise of the Nazis: Second Edition]</ref> In ''Zweites Buch'', particularly chapter 1, he writes about issues in "living space," the "struggle for life," issues in food supply, and other common topics in overpopulation commentary. ==Rebuilding the Nazi Party==[[Image:Hitler-3.jpg‎|left|200px|thumb|Hitler in car, saluting passing S.A. at one of many parades.]]Internal dissension within the party caused it to languish while Hitler was in prison. When released in December 1924, he saw difficulties in the country that had not existed before the Putsch, namely currency reform that brought economic stability, and the scaling back of the war reparations as a result of the Dawes Plan. Hitler was also forbidden to speak in public, and remained so until 1928; nonetheless he worked to rebuild the party and re-establish his own position within it as leader, despite Gregor Strasser's opposition in northern Germany. By 1927 the number of Nazis was in the hundreds of thousands. [[File:Nazi Communist picket 1932.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The [[Berlin transport strike]] (seen here with the Nazi NSBO and Communist RGO jointly picketing) cost Social Democrats their majority, facilitating Hitler's ascension.]]A new period of political and economic instability began with the onset of the Great Depression which threw millions out of work in Europe and North America. To campaign against the [[Young Plan]] (a second renegotiation of war reparations payments) Hitler made an alliance with one of Germany's leading nationalists, [[Alfred Hugenberg]], whose newspapers enabled Hitler to reach a national audience for the first time. The alliance also had another advantage: it enabled him to seek support from many in business and industry who controlled funds going into politics, and who themselves were desirous of seeing Germany under the control of a strong anti-Soviet and anti-Communist regime. The subsidies Hitler received placed the Nazi Party on a strong financial footing, enabling him to make his emotional appeal to the lower middle class and the unemployed in his faith that Germany would recover from its suffering and be a great nation once more. The alliance with the industrialists also demonstrated another aspect of Hitler, a skill of effectively using those that would use him, which many would discover when it was too late. The electoral strength of the Nazis grew during the Depression, as unceasing propaganda accused the government of failing to improve conditions for the working man. By the fall of 1930 the Nazis captured more than 18 percent of the vote, compared to just 2.6 percent in 1928. Hitler captured 36.8 percent of the vote when he opposed Paul von Hindenburg in the 1932 presidential election; his mass following put him in such a strong position that he entered a series of closed-door intrigues with Franz von Papen, Oskar Hindenburg, and Otto Meissner, all sharing a fear and loathing of a communist government. Despite the party losing votes in the November, 1932 election, Hitler insisted on nothing less than the office of chancellor for himself. For him, it was all or nothing. Hindenburg offered it to him on January 30, 1933. ==In power==Almost immediately, Hitler established himself as dictator. Less than a month after taking office, on February 27 the Reichstag building was set on fire under mysterious circumstances (officially blamed on a feeble-minded Dutch communist, Marinus van der Lubbe); Hitler soon after succeeded in getting several decrees passed removing much of the freedom guaranteed the constitution in the name of state security, and which also allowed an intensified campaign of violence against dissidents. Incredibly, in a special election set in those conditions on March 5, the Nazis won 43.9 percent of the vote. On March 21, the new Reichstag assembled at the Potsdam Church, as much a show of unity between the old guard under Hindenburg and the Nazis as it was a show of peace. Two days later the Enabling Act was passed, giving Hitler full powers; with the exception of the Nazis, all other political parties, including those which had helped pass the Enabling Act, ceased to exist within three months. Many of their leaders were imprisoned in concentration camps. ===Night of the Long Knives===[[Image:HitlerRohm1933.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Hitler with the notorious [[homosexual]] Nazi leader Ernst Röhm in 1933]][[File:Diego Rivera, Hitler, Panel of Mural for the New Workers School, New York City, 1933..jpg|thumb|left|200px|Hitler by [[Diego Rivera]], 1933.]]Hitler, however, did not wish to start an immediate revolution. In order to implement his ideas he still needed the support of the army. But he did have one growing problem that was a thorn in the army's side, the three million-plus men of the [[SA]] and their leader, [[Ernst Röhm]], who wanted nothing less than to merge the SA into the much smaller army, with himself in overall command. At first, Hitler tried getting Röhm's support by persuasion, but Hitler's inner circle was for removing him by any means possible. On June 29 , 1934, Hitler ordered a purge, flew towards a resort near Munich where a number of SA leaders were vacationing, and had them all arrested; many would be shot without trial. Refusing to shoot himself when offered, Röhm was killed in his cell at Dachau, his last words, ironically, “Mein Führer, mein Führer!” <ref>http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/roehm.htm</ref><ref>http://www.adolfhitler.ws/lib/nsdap/Rohm.html {{dead link}}</ref><ref>http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/nazi/innenpolitik/roehm/index.html</ref> The purge took place between June 30 and July 2, 1934. On July 13, Hitler gave speech in the Reichstag, announcing that some seventy-four individuals had been shot for threatening the stability of the Reich.:''"If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the German people…It was no secret that this time the revolution would have to be bloody; when we spoke of it we called it 'The Night of the Long Knives.' Everyone must know for all future time that if he raises his hand to strike the State, then certain death is his lot." '' Hitler also used this event to settle his account with other opponents, such as Georg Strasser, who stood for a more socialist and less racist national socialism, and the former Bavarian prime minister who foiled the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. Satisfied that the SA leadership was thoroughly broken up (thousands of SA members were either arrested or killed that night), the army approved of Hitler's actions. Hindenburg died a few days later on August 2, and Hitler merged the office of president with the chancellorship, and with it the supreme command of the German armed forces. During this time the world was slowly recovering economically from the Depression, but it quickened in Germany, coincidently with Hitler's rise to power. Taking credit for the recovery made him very popular, bringing him a 90 percent approval rating in a voter plebiscite that year. ===Beginnings of expansion===[[Image:Hitler6-thumb.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Hitler with his dog, Blondi.]]In matters of state, the running of domestic affairs was left to subordinates, which was something Hitler had little attention for. Foreign policy always peaked his interest, in so much as to the advantages of a “Greater Germany”, which was his chief ambition. The first part of realizing this, according to ''Mein Kampf'', was to be a reunion of the German peoples within Europe; the second would be an expansion of Germany to the east (lebensraum). Expanding would mean a renewed conflict with the Slavic peoples, whom Hitler intended to serve as slaves to the “New German Order.” To follow through on his ambitions, he would have to remove Poland and the Soviet Union as countries; France also would have to be stabilized in the west, as she was Germany's enemy for more than a century. He counted as possible allies Italy, with its fascist government under [[Benito Mussolini]], and Britain, whom he regarded as having a similar, Teutonic heritage. Before any of his ambitions could take place, there was one thing he detested which needed immediate removal: the restrictions placed upon Germany by the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I. Posing as a man of peace to allay suspicions, he insisted that he was a champion of Europe wishing only for the removal of the inequalities leveled by the treaty, and posturing as a shield against Bolshevism. In October, 1933, he had Germany withdraw from the [[League of Nations]]. The following January he signed a non-aggression treaty with Poland. His individual repudiations of parts of the treaty were followed by offers of negotiations for new agreements, while maintaining Germany's limited ambitious nature.[[Image:Mufti And Hitler.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Adolf Hitler talking with Grand Mufti [[Mohammed Amin Al-Husseini|Haj Amin al-Husseini]]]]While this was going on, Germany was steadily building up the armed forces. Rigorous training using wooden guns and trucks marked as “tanks” got needed battlefield training for officers. Potential fighter pilots began their training in gliders at public demonstrations – Germany, under terms of the treaty, was not allowed an air force – and later they would fly in new civilian stunt planes and transports, which on the drawing board were designed to be rapidly turned into fighters and bombers. Conscription was introduced in January, 1935, and in June of that year Hitler successfully signed a naval treaty with Britain, giving him rights to a respectable navy; but even while the ink was drying, Germany was secretly building a large U-boat fleet. The matter of reuniting the German peoples came into being in July, 1934, and here Hitler overreached. German organizations were covertly aiding Austrian Nazis in the overthrow of their government, culminating in an attempted revolt as well as murdering Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. When the attempt clearly failed, Hitler denied involvement. In January, 1935, a plebiscite was introduced in the Saarland; more than 90 percent voted to return the territory to Germany. Then in March, 1936, came his greatest slap to the Versailles Treaty: against the advice of his generals, and in open defiance of France and Britain, he ordered troops into the demilitarized Rhineland. Germany was once again becoming the leading power in continental Europe. By October, 1936, Germany had signed an alliance with Italy, proclaiming a “Rome-Berlin axis,” followed by the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan. All three countries would sign a single, mutual alliance pact, the following year.[[File:Hitler and Mussolini.jpg|thumb|200px|Hitler and [[Benito Mussolini]] in 1936]] ==Anschluss and the Munich Agreement=={{See also|Munich Pact}}Removed from their offices in January 1938 were Hjalmar Schacht (economic ministry); Werner von Fritsch (soldiers’ representative); and Konstantin von Neurath (foreign office); the reason being was they were not fully accepting of Nazism. Beginning his plans of German conquest, he started with Austria. Kurt von Schuschnigg, the Austrian chancellor, was invited to Berchtesgaden in February, where he was browbeaten and forced to sign an agreement placing Austrian Nazis in the government. When Schuschnigg resisted and announced a plebiscite for Austrian voters concerning independence, Hitler ordered German troops into Austria, completely taking over the country within days. His return to Vienna was in triumph; enthusiastic crowds greeted him by the tens of thousands, in sharp contrast to the scenes of privation he had gone through there in his youth. Austria was annexed (Anschluss) to the Reich a short time later. While the Anschluss was going on, Hitler was speaking in friendly terms with Czechoslovakia; nearly as soon as Austria ceased to exist, Hitler proceeded with his plans against the Czechs. The northwestern region of Czechoslovakia was the Sudetenland, inhabited by a German minority, and the leader of them, Konrad Henlein, was instructed to make impossible demands for those Germans on the Czech government. In the interest of preventing a general war (which Hitler wanted), Mussolini and British prime minister Neville Chamberlain concluded a peaceful agreement in Munich on September 30, giving Hitler the Sudetenland without firing a shot. Chamberlain would return to Britain, waiving the agreement signed between himself and Hitler, declaring it to be “peace for our time”, but his act of appeasement would ensure the peace would last only a few more months. Despite assurances that the Sudetenland was his last territorial demands, “Czechia”, as the remainder of Czechoslovakia was called, became a German protectorate on March 15, 1939, when Hitler ordered it occupied. Just over a week later, Lithuania was forced to cede to Germany the territory of Memel (Klaipeda), on the border of East Prussia. ==Poland==Poland's turn was next, and listening to the rumblings was France and Britain, which signed guarantees of mutual assistance to the Polish nation should it be attacked by Germany. Hitler also signed pacts: a “Pact of Steel” with Italy, strengthening the alliance between Rome and Berlin, and then a treaty that caught many off-guard: a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union on August 23. A secret clause in the pact allowed for the simultaneous invasion of Poland, and the division of the country in the center from north to south. Poland was invaded on September 1; two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany.  Hitler assumed his own war strategy. Poland was conquered within weeks, and when a desired peace accord with Britain failed to materialize, he ordered the army to prepare for a western offensive. Norway was invaded and occupied, forestalling a British move on that country; Denmark was occupied by April , 1940. Hitler than adopted General Erich von Manstien's plan for an offensive against France itself, which would move through neutral Belgium's Ardenne Forest on May 10, taking that country as a matter of convenience, as well as avoiding the static fortifications of France's Maginot Line. The German forces, extremely successful in their operations, reached the coastal ports on the English Channel in 10 days; Holland and Belgium both surrendered within days. But south of Dunkirk was where the army was ordered to halt. Hitler had hoped even at this stage in the battle that Britain would commit to peace; instead, the halting of the German army allowed the British to remove 170,000 fighting men. On June 10, Italy entered the war as German tanks were sweeping across northern France. Hitler signed an armistice with France on June 22, the signing taking place in the same rail car at the same site where the Germans surrendered in 1918. Having failed in getting the British to sign an armistice, Hitler prepared his forces for “Operation Sea Lion,” the invasion of Britain. However, the Luftwaffe was defeated in its attempt to gain air superiority over British airspace, also known as the Battle Of Britain, which forced the permanent postponement of Sealion. Facing the failure of the British to give in, Hitler started to prepare to double-cross his erstwhile partner in the Poland conquest, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union. Then Mussolini invaded Greece, got bogged down in the Balkans, and the threat loomed that he would lose his whole army there. Hitler found it necessary to come to his aid, while at the same time taking direct control of Yugoslavia in the wake of the overthrow of the pro-Nazi government. ==Barbarossa==[[File:Nazi diversity.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[Diversity]] and inclusion: [[Muslim]] members of the Waffen SS 13th division at prayer during their training at Neuhammer, Germany, in November 1943.]]{{See also|Operation Barbarossa}}The attack on Soviet Russia began June 22, 1941. Rapid in its advancement, the German army captured a large swath of territory between the Baltic and Black seas, and captured close to 3,000,000 prisoners. But Hitler, already micromanaging military operations, became overbearing to his generals; he preferred to go after many targets, while his generals argued for a single objective. A few miles in front of Moscow, the German army was halted by a Russian offensive in December, as well as something he had absolutely no control over: the severe Russian winter. In the lands already occupied by German forces, S.S. chief Heinrich Himmler was preparing the ground for Hitler's new German order. Expelling the Jews from Germany was the first step, and this was carried out by laws and decrees beginning in 1933; the Germans would switch to outright force in 1939, as Jews were first deported en-masse to Poland, then walled into ghettos after the occupation began. By 1941, a policy crafted under S.S. general Reinhard Heydrich had changed expulsion for extermination in what was called "a final solution to the Jewish question" (''die Endlösung der Judenfrage''). The system of concentration camps was supplemented by the creation of specialized killing centers in the occupied countries, especially in Poland, where camps such as Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzac “processed” thousands of victims daily. Some six million Jews died during what was called the [[Holocaust]], as well as an additional five million Slavs, Gypsies, the handicapped, the aged, and many others that the Nazis considered “subhuman” in accordance with German racial policies.<ref>http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/burns.htm</ref>===Mass killing begins===Hitler's genocidal plans were already uttered, such as speaking in 1922 (with Josef Hell) of: "cleansed of the last Jew!" on November 24, 1938 (Himmler's Das Schwarze Korps) [[SS]] Newspaper: wrote of "complete annihilation," and Hitler on 30 January 1939 (Reichstag): "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe." The actual mass killing began right with Op. Barbarossa. Soon after the invasion, mobile killing units (''[[Einsatzgruppen]]'') began the mass murder of Soviet Jews.<ref>https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/invasion-of-the-soviet-union-june-1941</ref> (All that before the 1942 Wannsee conference of course,<ref>[https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/wannsee-conference-and-the-final-solution Wannsee conference], ''ushmm.org''</ref> to discuss and coordinate the implementation). ==Beginning of the end==[[Image:Adolf_hitler6.jpg‎|right|200px|thumb|Hitler in 1944, by now looking tired and strained.]]Hitler grew increasingly strained by the end of 1942, depending on large amounts of drugs supplied by his physician, Theodor Morell, as a result of the twin defeats of El Alamein (which he lost the bulk of his Afrika corps to British general Montgomery), and Stalingrad (where he lost an entire army of 250,000 men to the Russians). He spent more time in his headquarters in East Prussia, and his time in the public eye ceased to exist. He refused to visit bombed German cities, and, as with Stalingrad, refused to allow German armies to withdraw from the battlefield when the situation was lost. Still, he could make stunning, decisive decisions when called for, such as the commando raid that resulted in the rescue of Benito Mussolini from Italian partisans in July, 1943. But the defeat of Germany in the war was looming closer. Hitler's relations with his leading commanders grew strained, the more so as he allowed units of the S.S. to take positions traditionally held by the army. The line at the eastern front was slowly being pushed back by the Soviets, while in the Atlantic his U-boats campaign had faltered. German cities were constantly being bombed, and a successful invasion on the Normandy coast of France in June, 1944 marked the beginning of the end. ===Assassination attempt=== Seeing Germany's chances of surviving the war were desperate, a group of officers plotted to assassinate Hitler, planning several attempts in 1943–44, but nearly successful on July 20, 1944, when a bomb hidden in a briefcase by Colonel [[Claus von Stauffenberg]] went off under a table that Hitler and others were leaning over; four were killed outright, several suffered injuries, but Hitler escaped relatively unharmed (the bomb itself was set down away from Hitler behind a solid oak table leg, saving him). The conspirators were quickly rounded up; Stauffenberg was shot. The remainder were put on show trials and condemned to hang on meat hooks with piano wire. It was said that Hitler enjoyed watching film of their executions. As a result of the bomb, Nazi members were employed at key positions within the army, removing any trace of the army's independence. Within months nearly all of the territory occupied by Germany was now in Allied hands. A last offensive in December, 1944 to take the port of Antwerp, Belgium, failed. Hitler had by then grown ill; his hopes for a German victory bordered on the fantastical and the imagination. By January, 1945 he had moved into his command bunker in Berlin, where he gave orders deploying fictional divisions to counter the ever-closer Soviets. When all seemed lost, he gave out his final orders: first, appointing Admiral Karl Dönitz as head of the state and his successor, and Josef Goebbels as chancellor; and second, dictating his last political will which was an attempt to justify his life's work. On April 29, he committed the one truly-chivalrous act of his life: he married Eva Braun, his long-time mistress. After retiring to his room in the bunker the next day, Eva took poison, and Hitler put a bullet in his head. In accordance with his wishes, both bodies were burned. His Third Reich would outlive him for another week. [[Elie Wiesel]] wrote the following in [[Time Magazine]] regarding Hitler: {{cquote|Adolf Hitler or the incarnation of absolute evil; this is how future generations will remember the all-powerful Führer of the criminal Third Reich. Compared with him, his peers [[Mussolini]] and [[Franco]] were novices. Under his hypnotic gaze, humanity crossed a threshold from which one could see the abyss. "Before Hitler, we thought we had sounded the depths of human nature," argues Ron Rosenbaum, author of "Explaining Hitler." "He showed how much lower we could go, and that's what was so horrifying. It gets us wondering not just at the depths he showed us but whether there is worse to come. The power of Hitler was to confound the [[modernist]] notion that judgments about good and [[evil]] were little more than matters of taste, reflections of [[social class]] and power and status. Although some modern scholars drive past the notion of evil and instead explain Hitler's conduct as a reflection of his [[psychoanalysis|childhood and self-esteem issues]], for most survivors of the 20th century he is confirmation of our instinctive sense that evil does exist. It moves among us; it leads us astray and deploys powerful, subtle weapons against even the sturdiest souls." <ref name="time" />}}[[Image:NWT Hitler dead.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Hitler's death as covered by the ''New York Times'', May 2, 1945.]]All in all, Hitler survived over forty assassination attempts. The Stauffenburg attempt was the closest anyone ever came to killing Hitler. George Elser, a communist, came very close in 1938, having planted a bomb in a beam that Hitler stood in front of while giving a speech. Luck saved Hitler, as he left the hall early and twelve minutes later the bomb exploded.

On the afternoon of April 30, 1945 as the Soviet Red Army closed in on the center of Berlin, Hitler apparently and Eva Braun committed suicide in an air.<ref>Kershaw, Ian. ''Hitler: A Biography''. (2008) p. 955</ref><ref>Joachimsthaler, Anton. ''The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth''. (1999) [1995] pp. 160-raid shelter in Berlin on April 30182</ref><ref>Beevor, Antony. ''Berlin – The Downfall 1945''. (2002) p. 359</ref> The majority of contemporary historians have rejected the other accounts of Hitler's demise or reported escape from Berlin as either Soviet propaganda or surmise.<ref>Eberle, Henrik and Uhl, Matthias. ''The Hitler Book''. (2005) p. 282</ref><ref name="Joachimsthaler. 1999 pp. 160-182, 240-260">Joachimsthaler. ''The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, after the Allied forces had invaded GermanyEvidence, the Truth''. (1999) [1995] pp. 160-182, 240-260</ref> Following the end of the war, because of the different versions presented by the Soviet Union as to Hitler being dead and alive, both British Military Intelligence (led by agent Hugh Trevor-Roper) and the FBI conducted investigations as to the Russian Army was entering Berlindifferent claims made. [httpThe declassified information from British MI5, confirmed that Hitler shot himself.<ref>https://www.infopleasemi5.comgov.uk/biographyhome/varabout-us/adolfhitlerwho-we-are/mi5-history/world-war-ii/hitlers-last-days.html]</ref> The declassified FBI documents report a number of alleged sightings of Hitler along with theories that he and Eva Braun escaped to Argentina in a submarine and changed identity. However, as the report states, "because of lack of information to support the story advanced...it is believed impossible to continue efforts to locate Hitler."<ref>https://vault.fbi.gov/adolf-hitler/adolf-hitler-part-01-of-04/view</ref>

More recently in 2009, American researchers were allowed to perform DNA tests on the skull fragment the Russians claim was from Hitler. The tests revealed that the skull fragment belonged to a woman under 40 years of age who was not related to Eva Braun. However, the jaw fragments which had been recovered and identified as Hitler's<ref>Eberle and Uhl. ''The Hitler Book''. (2005) p. 282</ref> were not tested by the American researchers.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/10/hitler.skull.debate/index.html?_s=PM:WORLD</ref> Therefore, most all historians are very skeptical and dismiss these popular conspiracy theories, in particular because there are credible witnesses, who saw the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun.<ref name="Joachimsthaler. 1999 pp. 160-182, 240-260"/><ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050137/Did-Hitler-Eva-Braun-flee-Berlin-die-old-age-Argentina.html</ref><ref>Fischer, Thomas. ''Soldiers of the Leibstandarte''. (2008) p. 47</ref><ref>Kershaw, Ian. ''Hitler 1936-1945 - Nemesis''. (2000) p. 1038</ref> == See also ==* [[CategoryDisturbed character]]* [[Nazi Germany and homosexuality]]* [[Police state]] == External links == *[http:Biographies//www.eucontest.org/go.php?pdf=www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%201994.pdf Extracts From ''Mein Kampf'' by Hitler]*[http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/ ''Mein Kampf'' by Adolf Hitler.]Full text.*[http://www.snyderstreasures.com/pages/hartworks.htm Adolf Hitler ORIGINAL Watercolor Artworks.]*[http://constitutionalistnc.tripod.com/hitler-leftist/ Hitler Was a Leftist] ==Further reading==*[http://www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/medical.htm STATE MEDICAL SERVICES OF THE THIRD REICH], FROM THE OPENING STATEMENT BY TELFORD TAYLOR, Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10. Nuremberg, October 1946–April 1949. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O, 1949–1953. Retrieved from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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