Adolf Hitler

Hasan A. Yahya, Ph.D.

Historical records show, Adolf Hitler, despite his bad reputation among his enemies, as a great personality, but unfortunately served his people as any other political leader in his time, but need not be the winner Second World War. If still alive, Adolf Hitler would be the next April 20, during his 121 birthday.

Adolf Hitler, charismatic, Austrian-born demagogue, took power in Germany during the 1920s and early 1930s at a time of social, political, and economic upheavals. Failing to take power by force in 1923, he eventually won power by democratic means. Once in power, he eliminated all opposition and launched an ambitious program of world domination and elimination of Jews, in parallel with the ideas he advanced in his book, Mein Kampf. His "1000" Year Reich lasted barely 12 years old and he died broken and beaten man.

Hitler approved the fall of the Weimar Republic, and told a public rally on October 30, 1923 it was established in March on Berlin to rid the government of Communists and Jews. On November 8, 1923, Hitler held a rally in a beer hall in Munich and proclaimed a revolution. The next day, he led 2,000 armed "brown-shirts" in an attempt to take over the Bavarian government. This putsch was resisted and repressed by the police, after more than a dozen have been killed in the fighting. Hitler suffered a dislocated and broken arm in the melee, was arrested and imprisoned at Landsberg. He received a sentence of five years. In prison he wrote the first volume of Mein Kampf. It was partly an autobiographical book (although filled with glorified inaccuracies, self-serving half-truths and outright revisionism) which also detailed his views on the future of the German people. There were several targets of the vicious diatribes in the book, as democrats, communists and internationalists. But he reserved most of his vituperation for the Jews, whom he described as responsible for all problems and evils of the world, particularly democracy, Communism, and internationalism, and the defeat of Germany in the war. Jews were the real enemy of the German nation, "he wrote. They did not own culture, he asserted, but perverted existing crops, such as Germany with their parasitism. As such, they are not a race, but an anti-race.

"[The Jews objective] is the ultimate denaturalization, the promiscuous bastardization of other peoples, the lowering of the race of the highest peoples as well as the domination of his racial mishmash through the extirpation of the intelligentsia Racist and its replacement by members of his own people, "he writes. Instead, the German people were of the highest racial purity and those destined for the master race according to Hitler. To maintain that purity, it was necessary to avoid intermarriage with subhuman races such as Jews and Slavs.

Germany could stop the Jews to conquer the world by their elimination. In doing so, Germany could also find Lebensraum, living space, without which the higher culture of German disintegration. This area of life, Hitler continued, would come from conquering Russia (which has been under the control of Jewish Marxists, he believed) and the Slavic countries. This empire will be launched after democracy was eliminated and a "Fahrer" called to rebuild the German Reich.

A second volume of Mein Kampf was published in 1927. It included a history of the Nazi party at that time and its program, as well as a primer on how to obtain and retain political power, how to use propaganda and terrorism, and how to build an organization policy.

Although Mein Kampf was crudely written and filled with embarrassing tangents and ramblings, it struck a chord among its target those Germans who believed it was their destiny to dominate the world. The book has sold.