Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler
[[image:File:Adolf Hitler, human rights activist.png|200px]]
Political Party	German Workers' Party (1920–1921) NSDAP (1921–1945)
Occupation	politician, soldier, artist, writer
Spouse	Eva Braun

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary – 30 April 1945, Berlin, Germany) became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and Führer from 1934 to 1945. He led the National Socialist German Workers Party and National Socialist Germany.

== name=%3D The name "Adolf" comes from Old High German for "Noble Wolf", hence, a nickname of Hitler was "Wolf". The names of some of his headquarters (Wolfsschanze in East Prussia, Wolfsschlucht in France, Werwolf in Ukraine, etc.) reflect this. As a child, Hitler was known as "Adi".

Outline of Hitler's life

As an alternative to the politically correct view on Hitler this section will largely cite the 1938 authorized biography Adolf Hitler: A Short Sketch of His Life.

"Though the years spent in Vienna meant a hard and bitter struggle with life, the experience gained in this school was of inestimable value afterwards. Hitler was now yearning to live as a German in Germany itself, free from the oppression under which the German element had to suffer in that potpourri of nations which made up the Habsburg Empire. So he left Vienna and came to live in Munich. That was on April 24, 1912."

Revisionists have argued that "Vernichtung" does necessarily means killing. See Meanings and translations of German words and Holocaust revisionism: Ambiguous words.

Furthermore, revisionists argue that non-revisionists seldom quote what Hitler stated thereafter: "for the time when the non-Jewish nations had no propaganda is at an end. National Socialist Germany and Fascist Italy have institutions which enable them when necessary to enlighten the world about the nature of a question of which many nations are instinctively conscious, but which they have not yet clearly thought out... ...If this [Jewish] nation should once more succeed in inciting the millions which compose the nations into a conflict which is utterly senseless and only serves Jewish interests, then there will be revealed the effectiveness of an enlightenment which has completely routed the Jews in Germany in the space of a few years. The nations are no longer willing to die on the battlefield so that this unstable international race may profiteer from a war or satisfy its Old Testament vengeance." This is argued to show that Hitler wanted to "annihilate" the Jews by enlightening the world about their alleged evil plans and deeds, which had already led to their routing (=annihilation) in Germany within a few years. Furthermore, it is argued that the speech clearly outlines Hitler's policy of emigration and resettlement of the Jews.

See also the "External links" section regarding other argued statements by Hitler on the Holocaust

"Who remembers the Armenians?"

Hitler was at the Nuremberg trials alleged to to have made the following statement involving the Armenian Genocide: "Our strength is in our quickness and our brutality. […] For the time being I have sent to the east only Death’s Head units, with the order to kill without pity or mercy all men, women and children. […] Who talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?"

This has been criticized as a forgery: "The statement was supposed to have been made at a meeting of the top German staff of the Obersalzberg on August 22, 1939. The document was released to the international press covering the Nuremberg War Crimes trials on Friday, November 23, 1945. The trials had commenced that Monday. The document was one of several made available to the press that day. Two-hundred-fifty copies were given to press correspondents, but only five copies were given to the 17 defense counsels – 24 hours before the Court convened on Monday!

Much later in the trial, the German defense lawyers were able to introduce the most complete account of the address, taken down by German Admiral Hermann Boehm, which runs to 12 pages in translation. There is no mention of the Armenians or the rest of the “quotation.”"

Maser also rejected a number of other claims regarding Hitler and National Socialist Germany:

• "Contrary to the widespread view of Hitler as a person of no real education or deep understanding, the transcripts of the German leader’s freewheeling “table talk” remarks to colleagues alone show him to have been a man of extraordinary intelligence, perception and wide-ranging knowledge. Hitler understood English and French, and some Italian. He read widely, and had an astonishing knowledge in many fields. A reading of the transcripts of his conversations with minister Albert Speer, for example, shows that Hitler had a specialist’s understanding of armaments".
• "Compelling evidence" has been argued to show that Hitler was a "remarkably more far-sighted, subtle, intelligent and “modern” leader than historians have understood or acknowledged." This including areas such as the military field and predicting the postwar world.
• Hitler is argued to have successfully won the support of the great majority of Germans.
• "Hitler’s success in bringing Germany out of the worldwide Great Depression, and in creating an “economic miracle” with full employment and prosperity with stable prices."
• "An “incredible achievement” was Hitler’s success, within just five years, of transforming a forcibly demilitarized nation into Europe’s strongest military power."
• Rather than being centralized, totalitarian state, power in National Socialist Germany is argued to have been widely diffused between a number of state and party agencies competing with one another. Furthermore, entire ministries and the German armed forces remained almost or largely free of NSDAP influence. This contributed to an argued surprising degree of "plurality" in cultural and intellectual life.
• The book took note of "the Third Reich’s innovative large-scale urban planning and environmental policies, its promotion of modern housing for the general population, education of gifted children from poor families in progressive but elite schools, a strong democratization process within the German armed forces, the character of the National Socialist party as a broad-based, non-sectarian “peoples party,” and the elimination of mass unemployment and job creation through programs that can be called "Keynesian"."
• "Even Dr. Goebbels’ much-maligned propaganda machinery might more accurately be described (pp. 150 f.) as a "modern instrument of government on an American model, through which the democracies seek to continue their rule in the post-bourgeois society and to perpetuate their technocratic system.""
• "historians have too readily accepted the Soviet regime’s propaganda image of itself. Far too many western historians have failed to appreciate the bloody reality of Soviet Communism, or the very real threat it posed to Europe.... For millions of Europeans in the 1920s and 1930s, the Red Star and the Swastika represented the only realistic alternatives for the future of Germany, and indeed, of the entire West. Hitler was by no means the only European leader who took seriously the Soviet danger to European order, culture and civilization. Without the reality of this threat, the “fascist” response of Germany (and other European nations) is hardly imaginable. Hitler, in Nolte’s view, was an anti-Communist of “Communist” decisiveness and spiritual energy. Alone among his contemporaries, he fought Communism with radical, “non-bourgeois” ruthlessness. (pp. 349–367). Nolte writes (pp. 366 f.): Twentieth century world history is only understandable when one is willing to acknowledge the connection made by the enemies of Bolshevism between a fear of annihilation and an intention of annihilation, and to recognize the simple truth that the statements of anti-Communists about the misdeeds of Bolshevism were, in fact, well grounded. Since 1990, at the latest, these are facts that no longer be seriously disputed, and that even the propagandistic exaggerations [of anti-Communists] reflected a rational core ... One day the question of the hierarchy of motives of Hitler and National Socialism will become a matter of dispute in the scholarly literature, and the thesis of the primacy of anti-Communism is likely to be a main point."

Lawrence Birken

Mark Weber in a review of a 1996 book by Lawrence Birken stated that "In spite of decades of vehement vilification, says author Lawrence Birken, Hitler’s views have enduring and dangerous appeal – not because they are bizarre and alien, but precisely because they are rational and well grounded in Western thought. In particular, Birken stresses, Hitlerism is firmly rooted in the rationalist and scientific outlook of the 18th-century European Enlightenment."

"Scholars and others have made a major mistake in failing to take Hitler seriously as a thinker, argues Birken, who believes that the German political leader “must be regarded as a genuine intellectual”... As he notes, as early as 1953, British historian Hugh R. Trevor-Roper “evoked the image of Hitler as a kind of synthesis of Spengler and Napoleon, noting that of all world conquerors the German leader had been the most ‘philosophical’...” More recently, German historian Rainer Zitelmann established in a study of impressive scholarship that Hitler’s outlook was rational, self-consistent and “modern.”""

"A common tendency of German generals after the war was to go along with many of these assumptions. They sought to distance themselves from Hitler and National Socialism, presenting him as a sort of pied piper who misled and then forced them into the war. According to this self-serving version, all the things that went wrong were due to Hitler's crazy decisions and meddlings, while all that went right were as a result of the genius of the generals themselves. The objective was firstly to protect their own reputations, secondly to protect the image of the German General Staff, and thirdly to simply survive in post-war Germany and shore up their relationship with the conquerors, particularly the USA, which occupied—and arguably continues to occupy—defeated Germany. Mosier points out that in nearly all cases, Hitler was right in his decisions while his generals were wrong. The German officer caste was trained to seize major cities and especially capitals, but Hitler understood that modern wars were more economic in nature—conflicts to seize resources both to deny the enemy the ability to wage war while at the same time increasing one's own ability to do so."

"Fourteen Days that Saved the World"

Some have gone beyond arguing that the invasion of the Soviet Union was a defensive war and argued that it prevented "the Soviet conquest of Europe scheduled to begin early in the morning of Sunday 6 July 1941. Suvorov’s revelations about the massive expansion of the NKVD (the blood-soaked forerunner of the KGB) are particularly chilling: these killers would have moved behind the assault troops to liquidate “class enemies.” The Bolshevik torture chambers and death pits which claimed millions of victims in the enslaved nations of the East would have spread throughout the West as well. With Germany and France under the Soviet jackboot, Italy and Spain would quickly have fallen too. And Stalin’s one million paratroopers would have made short work of seizing the airfields of southern England to clear the way for a full-scale invasion. Lenin and his pupil Stalin never made any secret of their desire for a Second World War to establish a Communist Europe. For the fact that this monstrous plan failed, the pseudo-democrats, simpering priests and court historians have no-one to thank but Adolf Hitler. If it had not been for the man they love to hate, they would have been the first against the wall."

Other views

Hitler continues to be a controversial figure, adored and hated. In the later literature, despite the massive Jewish orchestrated hate campaign, some have referred to Hitler's legacy in neutral or favourable terms. John F. Kennedy wrote of Hitler in Prelude to Leadership: The European Diary of John F. Kennedy that "he had in him the stuff of which legends are made." Former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat wrote favourably of Hitler in 1953. Louis Farrakhan has referred to him as a "very great man". Bal Thackeray, leader of the national Hindu Shiv Sena party in the Indian state of the Maharashtra, declared in 1995 that he was an admirer of Hitler.

Later National Socialists

Obviously individuals and organizations describing themselves as National Socialists have not politically correct views on Hitler. In the United States, George Lincoln Rockwell revived Hitler’s movement by forming the American Nazi Party. Later other National Socialist parties began to form around the world.

See also

• List of Adolf Hitler's speeches
• Adolf Hitler Timeline
• Adolf Hitler the artist
• Adolf Hitler and Christianity
• Lineage of Adolf Hitler‎

External links

• Category: Hitler, Adolf on Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust
• Documents of the Life and Time of Adolf Hitler on David Irving's website
• The Enigma of Hitler
• Hitler Historical Museum
• Ancestry of Adolf Hitler
• What was Hitler’s Unforgivable Sin?

Peace proposals

• What the World Rejected: Hitler's Peace Offers 1933-1939
• An Overview of Hitler's Peace Proposals

Statements by Hitler and the Holocaust

• Lectures on the Holocaust—Controversial Issues Cross Examined - section 4.1. Confessions of NS Leaders During the War
• Auschwitz Lies—Legends, Lies, and Prejudices on the Holocaust - section 3.7.4. Adolf Hitler
• The Hoax of the Twentieth Century - Chapter 6 Et Cetera: Adolf Hitler
• Auschwitz: A Judge Looks at the Evidence - Chapter Two: Contemporaneous Documents: Speeches and Other Public Statements by Political Leaders of the Third Reich: Adolf Hitler

Biographies

• Adolf Hitler: A Short Sketch of His Life (Authorized short biography 1938)
• What is the Best Hitler Biography?

Films

• The Greatest Story NEVER Told - The Untold Story of Adolf Hitler

Gallery

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  Painting of Hitler

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  Painting of Hitler

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  "Man of the Year 1938" in TIME magazine

Bibliography

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• Göring, Hermann. Germany Reborn. E. Mathews & Marrot, London, 1934.
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• Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). Hurst & Blackett LTD., London, 1939.
• Irving, David. Hitler's War. Focal Point Publications, London, 1991.
• Kubizek, August. The Young Hitler I Knew. Greenhill Books, London, 2006.
• Rosenberg, Alfred. Memoirs of Alfred Rosenberg. Ziff-Davis Pub. Co., Chicago & NY, 1949.
• Spotts, Frederick. Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics. The Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY, 2002.
• Stolfi, R. H. S. Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2011.
• Walsh, Michael. Triumph of Reason: The Thinking Man's Guide to Adolf Hitler. Historical Review Press, Uckfield, UK, 2002.
• Friedrich Christian, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe: "Was Hitler Really a Dictator?" (The book in HTML)
• Alex S. Perry: "Adolf Hitler - An Overlooked Candidate for the Nobel Prize"
• Max Domarus (Hrsg.): "The Essential Hitler Speeches and Commentary", 2007 Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. ISBN=978-0-86516-627-1