FREE ESSAY ON HITLER

HITLER

He stands motionless with crossed arms and resting eyes focused straight ahead. He is
completely immobile, expressionless, and says absolutely nothing. Surrounded by some
fifteen thousand audience members filing into the great auditorium to hear this man
speak, the presence he commands brings order to the environment almost immediately. There
is little doubt that Adolf Hitler projected a commanding presence. The aforementioned was
merely a description of events which took place prior to one of his famous speeches
during the pre-war Nazi years, when his party was only coming into power and Adolf
Hitler, as a personality, was making his presence known on the scene. This historical
backdrop of Germany in the 1930's reveals a country knee-deep in economic depression, and
as would well be expected, the climate was ripe for a new leader. Adolf Hitler made his
presence known in the form of a Messiah rather than a political leader, offering his
countrymen not only economic but political salvation as well as the kind of cultural
magnificence which he truly believed in, i.e. the Aryan race. Adolf Hitler was born on
April 20, 1889 in the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn, the son of Alois, a customs
official, and Klara Hitler. He was not a successful student, and his earlier years are
said to have been characterized by melancholy, aimlessness and racial hatred. It was in
Vienna where he developed what is considered to be a life-long obsession with the danger
that the world Jewery posed to the Aryan race. It was after Hitler relocated to Munich in
1913 and served in the Bavarian 16th Regiment that he distinguished himself for bravery
and was awarded the Iron Cross First Class. It was during this time that Hitler had found
a home and glorified the raw majesty of life under fire, the beauty of comradeship and
the nobility of the warrior. His soldierly dreams of victory and fulfillment were
shattered, however, by Germany's defeat. He became convinced that Germany had been
stabbed in the back by Jews and Marxists.1 Oratory and the printed word were much a part
of Adolf Hitler's rise to save the fatherland. It is my personal view that Hitler
acquired his oratory skills and acuity through his earlier experiences.