Was Hitler The Cause Of The Holocaust?

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The author supports her claim that Hitler's legacy was violent by showing how he was the cause of the death of millions of minority groups and how his violent legacy is often seen as a warning of what can happen when someone is too obsessed with national pride and racial superiority. Hitler was born in April 1889, in Austria- Hungary and moved to Germany when he was three. He had a very tense relationship with his father because they were both stubborn and strong-willed.Hitler moved to Munich, Germany, and enlisted in the German army when World War I started in 1914. He worked mainly in administrative roles, but he did get wounded in 1917 and was awarded for his bravery. He remembered the war as, "The greatest of all experiences." And this persuaded him …show more content…
this is what got him attention and he used mob psychology to whip the audience into a frenzy of patriotism and what gave him a large following of people.Hitler admired powerful, nationalistic governments like japan and it also and this is what made him make military alliances with both countries in the late 1930s. His vision was to restore and to a greater economic and military power, to make Germany the most powerful nation in the world. To achieve this he thought Aryans were genetically superior to anyone else, so the best way for Aryans to gain their rightful power was to kill anyone who looked different or who thought differently. He especially hated Jews, and his hatred is what started the Holocaust. Since he hated minorities, especially Jews, and saw them as the enemy to Germany's expansion, He sent troops out all over the territory to kidnap Jews,Slavs, and other undesirable people. They were concentration brought to camps where it was easy for the German army to kill hundreds at a time. During the Holocaust, as it came to be known, Hitler ordered the death of 6 million Jews, one of the deadliest genocides in