Hitler
Was Adolf Hitler an ideologue or an opportunist? I believe that Adolf Hitler was the perfect model of an opportunist. He took advantage of every opportunity given to him. He was an ideologue also, but he took every opportunity to shout his ideals to the people. His life began simply enough, but he turned out to be one of the most infamous people of the 20th century. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Austria. Hitler's view of the world began to significantly take shape when he moved to Vienna at the age of eighteen. He borrowed large numbers of books from the library on German history and Nordic mythology. By now Hitler also had strong pride in the German race and all things German along with a strong dislike of the Hapsburg Monarchy and the non-Germanic races in the multicultural Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had ruled Austria and surrounding countries for centuries. Hitler had a passion for reading, grabbing all the daily newspapers available at the men's home, reading numerous political pamphlets and borrowing many books from the library on German history and mythology. The utter misery of his poverty also deeply influenced Hitler. "I owe it to that period that I grew hard and am still capable of being hard." -
------------------------------------------------------------------------ At 8:30 p.m. Hitler and his storm troopers burst into the beer hall causing instant panic. It ended in disaster and Hitler was tried for treason in court. A few days before Christmas, 1924, Adolf Hitler emerged a free man after nine months in prison, having learned from his mistakes. In addition to creating the book, Mein Kampf, Hitler had given considerable thought to the failed Nazi revolution (Beer Hall Putsch) of November 1923, and its implications for the future. Now, no matter how much his Nazi Party members wanted action taken against the young German democratic republic, it simply would not happen. Hitler had a new idea on how to topple the government and take over Germany for himself and the Nazis - play by the democratic rules and get elected. Hitler then became one of many undercover agents in the German army weeding out Marxist influence within the ranks and investigating subversive political organizations. On September 12, dressed in civilian clothes, Hitler went to a meeting of the German Workers' Party in the back room of a Munich beer hall, with about twenty-five people. After the speech, Hitler began to leave when a man rose up and spoke in favor of the German state of Bavaria breaking away from Germany and forming a new South German nation with Austria. After Hitler's outburst ended, Drexler hurried to Hitler and gave him a forty-page pamphlet entitled, "My Political Awakening." He urged Hitler to read it and alsoo invited Hitler to come back A few days later, Hitler received an unexpected postcard saying he had been accepted as a member into the party. Although unimpressed by the present condition of the German Workers' Party, Hitler was drawn to the sentiment expres
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