I suggest that because of his personality Hitler was doomed to lose the 2nd world war, whatever incompetence or ability the allies had shown.
Hitler's determination to rid Europe of Jews and other so-called racial inferiors meant that a large amount of energy, personnel, and industry was directed to that end and not on war aims. Hitler saw himself as having an historic purpose, of which dealing with the Jews was one, making a dominant pure German state another.
He personified history, that is made it into an operative divine thing, as he did with many other aspects of the world.
Amir, he took exceptional risks. Like Napoleon, he was an opportunist. Be was like a gambler who puts all his money on one throw, without necessarily considering the odds. I believe thereby that given these and other traits he had within him the romantic narcissitic perspective of the suicide, a do-or-die attitude for whom violent death was a final validation.
Yes, I guess so. Just imagine the world if he won. Let us also imagine the opinion of the media and history in that case!!!! The same may also be said about Napoleon!
Stanley, didn't Stalin kill more Russians to force them to follow than Hitler did killing German to follow him?
Hitler killed hardly any of his own people in order to retain power, apart from communists. Hardly anyone in Germany rebelled against him, which may have had something to do with his police service. Those he did kill, or have killed, apart from Communists, tended to belong, as in the USSR, to skilled and professional classes. But as Hitler killed or attempted to kill all racial minorities and mentally ill within Germany, Hitler killed as many of his own citizenry as Stalin, just not for the same reasons!
Mohamed, although Hitler and Napoleon shared opportunistic tendencies, by contrast, Napoleon was an educated man without ideological baggage. Under Napoleon, people died as the result of war-most of which were not begun by him. He had to deal with the reactionary forces surrounding France.
It is, I feel. improbable that the 2nd World War would have occurred without Hitler's nihilistic tendencies. He was already planning for war in the 1920s, but more as fantasy rather than the probable, just as he was mulling over 'the Jewish problem'. He appears to have veered from fantasy to the possible, his fantasies transformed with his assumption of power.
That was how Hitler and his cohorts perceived it. Jews were different from Germans, although this wasn't actually true, were not a distinctly pure race like the Germans who believed in the fantasy of an Aryan race-Indo Europeans-although such a race would have had, had it even existed, many tributaries in the middle-east. For example the Persians, which the term Aryan actually alludes to, and other groups with probable origins in Central Asia.
The Indo-Europeans are a language group, which includes Hindustani, the European languages and the Indo-Iranian group of languages. Myths of superiority were created around this language family, although some recent historians have passed doubt on its actual existence.
Colin Renfrew, a British archaeologiest, proposed in the 1980s that Indo-European entered Europe with farmers in c5000 BCE from Anatolia, where he believed it originated, although most language archaeologists believe it originated in Central Asia. If that was so, it would probably then have entered Europe with the Beaker People, mainly cattle farmers, who over-ran Europe in c3000 BCE. They not only over-ran Europe but DNA and archaeological evidence suggests that they killed off many of the original middle-eastern group of farmers. The Beaker People came from the east, perhaps originating in Central Asia or Western Siberia.
As can be seen, the language group, if it is genuine, has nothing to do with race-a vague term strongly disputed by scientists and thoroughly un-confirmed by DNA results that was nevertheless believed in Europe throughout the Victorian period and most of the 20th century. The NAZI party nevertheless constructed an entire political and cultural concept on its existence, with blue-eyed blond Germans at the very top of an imaginary hierarchy.
Anti-semitism, a term directed only towards those who held to the Jewish religion not others, Arabs etc, had been common in Europe and in parts of the Middle East for several millennium. This may have had something to do with the Jewish diaspora and myths constructed on their material and intellectual success wherever they settled. Anti-semitism was especially virulent in Austria, where Hitler was born and grew up. He appears to have blamed Jews for his early lack of success-he was virtually a tramp at one point.
When Germany lost the First World War, mainly due to the moral collapse of the army and fear of revolution in Germany itself, Hitler as with many combatants blamed the Jews, rather it seems than admit military defeat. Anti-semitism grew. In Mein Kampf (My Struggle) written by Hitler in 1925 while imprisioned for the Munich (Beer Hall) Putsch (1923) he details his understanding of the Jewish Problem, which he viewed as a human disease undermining the racial purity of the fatherland and thereby destroying it , providing also the first glimmerings of a solution-extermination.
Hope this answers your question, Mohamed?
Thank you Stanley for your organized and excellent explanation of the mentioned problem. It truly adds to my general knowledge.
I am sure I will learn more from your professional knowledge in history. Thank you again.
Hitler's determination to rid Europe of Jews and other so-called racial inferiors meant that a large amount of energy, personnel, and industry was directed to that end and not on war aims. Hitler saw himself as having an historic purpose, of which dealing with the Jews was one, making a dominant pure German state another.
He personified history, that is made it into an operative divine thing, as he did with many other aspects of the world.
Stanley, was that his focus or world domination and supremacy of the Arian race?
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