Hitler Essay Research Paper He stands motionless

Hitler Essay, Research Paper

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.