Today I came to know a few things about the most dreaded figure in History. A person, whom I used to hate to the core, the person who has been said responsible for the resurrection of Germany but at the same time for the ill-fate of Jews and the person in whose hands was the sole power to determine the occurrence of the Second World War- the infamous Adolf Hitler.
I began taking interest in the once ‘Fuhrer of Germany’ and the reasons to The Second World War as I had to study a whole unit of my History Text Book of Class IX about Hitler and his mass Jew slaughter. But even then I did not get the interest or initiative to search and find a little more about the period. In Class X, I got a copy of the ‘Diary of a Young Girl’ by Anne Frank, one of the most well-known victims of Hitler’s cruelty. When I did a little research on Anne Frank, I caught notice of the Wikipedia page about Hitler. Hitler’s biography clearly explains the reason behind his Nazi involvement and Jew-hatred.
Hitler was born as the fourth of the six children of Alois Hitler and Clara Hitler. His father was an Austrian official. When he retired, he tried to settle down with farms and bee-keeping in which he failed and it may have happened that Alois used to unleash his anger due to despair on his family (Please, do note the words ‘may have’, I used).
Hitler used to be a normal, easy going, happy kiddo in his childhood. But with the death of his younger brother due to measles, he underwent a rapid transformation into a reserved, retired, withdrawn and exasperated boy.
Hitler was much dear to his mother but not to his father. There used to be clashes and fights in the house frequently between the father and the son. Hitler was ambitious and artistic and he wanted to study arts and become a painter. All these plans of him for his future were completely turned down by his father. He forcefully admitted Hitler to a technical school where naturally he lagged behind.
At that time, he began to be drawn increasingly into the political organisation of ‘Nationalist Socialism’ which he discovered as a hide-out from his father and an energy diverter. As a student, Hitler became more and more mischievous. Once, while hanging out with his friends, the thoughtless teenager got drunk and intoxicated. He tore his school certificate into four big pieces and used it in place of a toilet paper. These pieces were sent by somebody to the headmaster of the school who gave him bitterly embarrassing and cruel punishment and got him expelled. This in turn proved out to be the most painful experience of his life.
Hitler tried to get admission in The Vienna University of Arts but was rejected twice. Choosing architecture as the right path for him, he applied but he was asked for his school certificates, which he could never produce.
Rumour has it that at the age of 16, Hitler fell in love with a Jew lady called Stephy. He followed her for four years but never proposed to her. He got a chance to speak to her in a flower show but missed it. Later she got married to an Austrian soldier. If she had married Hitler, he had plans to live in Persia as a teacher. Hitler hated Austrians. Not only because his love was married to an Austrian but also because his father used to be an Austrian official and wanted him to be one too.
His father died at around this time and his mother some years later due to breast cancer. In his youth, Hitler joined Army and at the hard time of Germany, led it to prosperity.
Another thing said about Hitler was that he, as he wanted all Germans to be, was not a pure-blood after all. Only God knows if it is true. But people say that Hitler’s father Alois Hitler had been an illegitimate son of a German lady named Maria to a Jew, whose house keeper she had been. The inferiority complex that stirred in his mind because of this might have , along with the disappointment over his Jewish love and the Nazi belief that Jews were responsible for all the miseries, been the exclusive factors behind the development of such a strong feeling of hatred towards the Jews in his mind.
It can be observed through his secret proposal to the British Government in India that he shared the mindset of a serial killer which is a dreadful psychological condition. He proposed that if Gandhi and his followers were continuing to raise their voices for Independence, then they should eliminate Gandhi. If that was not enough, then all the political leaders. Still not enough, then two hundred other activists and then continue it till the Indian people gave up hopes for Independence. It is clear from the statement that Hitler’s ultimate and favourite answer for any question, however minute it may have been, was elimination.
Hitler cannot be called a monster or a malicious, pitiless person. His surroundings, circumstances, history and loneliness made him do all that. If for once, he had been well understood and led, Earth would have been different. The whole history will have been different. The lives of the million persons will have been different. At least, our Class IX History Text Book would have been different.
Ardhraprakash
(wrote in class xi, 2010 )
good research done on hitler. keep the effort going on all such subjects when you come across them.
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