Adolf Hitler has and will always be known as an individualist and opportunist. He has and will always be known as someone with major mental issues who became a leader of a country that required a strong presence in the eye of the public. It is no doubt that his economical decision to dig Germany out of a sinking unemployment and providing change during a time where previous leadership had continued to follow the same direction the past 50 years. Unfortunately for Hitler, his choices in everything he did, good and bad, will always be under-rated. The creation of the Third Reich was in part due to German citizens supporting such a change and Adolf Hitler himself claimed himself to be of a higher calling because of his duty in over 50 separate battles. His survival again and again sent a powerful message to the public, but it sent even far more powerful message to Hitler’s ideaology.
It is extrememly unfortunate that history will teach just the greed and tyranny he inflicted on European leaders, his all or nothing strategy to war, and of course the over 9 million who were killed in concentration camps. I believe what Adolf Hitler did was the most modern murdering on a grand scale anyone has ever witnessed and the lesson from his greed and determination should always be an example of what a free society should never have to experience. Though Hitler, and his close adviser’s during that time were superior to any ground military due to the strategy they implemented on the ground and in the air to support the ground military and the fear into the hearts of the populace they were attacking.
It is very clear that this strategy created what we now know as the Geneva Convention. Though his military strategy was highly suggested in both combat operations in Iraq in 1991 and again in 2003. Hitler’s economic reform of the unemployment situation changed the way Germany imports their goods and in five years had higher sales in exports then imports and created far more jobs for certain goods once imported outside the country. What destroyed Hitler was his believe that he was meant for a higher calling. His over confidence destroyed the Third Reich and himself over time. The populace of Germany supported much of what Hitler did… even the invasion of many of the countries. They supported it because prior to doing so he convinced a country that they could trust a new party in their government and he had not steered them wrong or misled them. Hitler was the first leader of Germany in over 100 years that held his head high for Germans, that came from a lower income family, and that made promises that were met.
Adolf Hitler will always go down in history as a greedy individualist because the only thing that truly destroyed Hitler was himself. I believe that if Hitler would have taken stricter steps into his warfare and took a bit more time in where or who he conquered and did it with a bit more legitimate politics we would have witnessed a far different history. His choice to murder millions of Jew’s and than make false justifications against those who weren’t Jewish to kill what he believed was his enemies.
In closing, I have debated this topic a few times, but what I dislike about some people is they claim that Hitler was a racist. I am an American and find it interesting when others assume situations from the Jesse Owens example in the Olympics and obvious ones related to the Jewish community. Hitler was an opportunist. Hitler was a patriot and believed strongly in a country that was built before a heavy Jewish society were established. Hitlers comments and disgust towards Owen’s had everything to do with a very talented German athelete that also had the ability to win, but came in second or third place depending the event. Hitler wasn’t racist…he was a conservative patriot with heavy principles in what his country was originally built around. He made a terrible choice for the murdering of a Jewish society due to his weak-minded experiences as a young adult. It will always be said that Hitler would have been equal to some of the greatest leaders and smartest thinkers of all time, but his choice to imprison a minority to instill fear will never be forgotten to historians or those inflicted with loved ones of our past.
