Adolf Hitler Research Paper
Hitler’s Personality
Many who examine photos of Hitler today wonder how such a commonplace and in some ways comical-looking figure could have become the object of such mass hysterical adulation. Females especially swooned in his presence. Except for his pale blue eyes, which seemed to many to have a hypnotic effect, Hitler’s physical characteristics were in fact quite undistinguished.
Mind
Hitler’s mind was considerably more important than is physical appearance in his rise to power. Those who see Hitler as a diabolical adventurer motivated solely by a lust for personal power misunderstand his mental capabilities. He possessed an unusually retentive memory. He remembered minute details from his early life, the industrial production …show more content…
His friend August Kubizek observed this quality in Hitler in his teenage years.
I have often been asked . . . whether Adolf, when I knew him, had any sense of humor. . . . Certainly one’s impression of Hitler, especially after a short and superficial acquaintance, was that of a deeply serious man. This enormous seriousness seemed to overshadow everything else. It was the same when he was young. He approached the problems with which he was concerned with a deadly earnestness which ill suited his sixteen or seventeen years. - August Kubizek Hitler maintained this humorless throughout his life. Although he was capable of laughing, he seldom did so in public and certainly never at …show more content…
He occasionally portrayed himself as a man of complete honesty. Hence his reaction hen told that the British did not believe his promise not to invade Poland: “Idiots! Have I ever in my entire life ever told a lie?” But to one of his generals he remarked: “You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.” Hitler was capable of displaying kindness, especially toward children and animals. During his first few months as chancellor Hitler had the Reichstag enact laws for the protection of animals, and in 1936 he decreed regulations for the humane killing lobsters and crabs. But in the latter year he also expressed to one of his subordinates his incredible
Many who examine photos of Hitler today wonder how such a commonplace and in some ways comical-looking figure could have become the object of such mass hysterical adulation. Females especially swooned in his presence. Except for his pale blue eyes, which seemed to many to have a hypnotic effect, Hitler’s physical characteristics were in fact quite undistinguished.
Mind
Hitler’s mind was considerably more important than is physical appearance in his rise to power. Those who see Hitler as a diabolical adventurer motivated solely by a lust for personal power misunderstand his mental capabilities. He possessed an unusually retentive memory. He remembered minute details from his early life, the industrial production …show more content…
His friend August Kubizek observed this quality in Hitler in his teenage years.
I have often been asked . . . whether Adolf, when I knew him, had any sense of humor. . . . Certainly one’s impression of Hitler, especially after a short and superficial acquaintance, was that of a deeply serious man. This enormous seriousness seemed to overshadow everything else. It was the same when he was young. He approached the problems with which he was concerned with a deadly earnestness which ill suited his sixteen or seventeen years. - August Kubizek Hitler maintained this humorless throughout his life. Although he was capable of laughing, he seldom did so in public and certainly never at …show more content…
He occasionally portrayed himself as a man of complete honesty. Hence his reaction hen told that the British did not believe his promise not to invade Poland: “Idiots! Have I ever in my entire life ever told a lie?” But to one of his generals he remarked: “You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.” Hitler was capable of displaying kindness, especially toward children and animals. During his first few months as chancellor Hitler had the Reichstag enact laws for the protection of animals, and in 1936 he decreed regulations for the humane killing lobsters and crabs. But in the latter year he also expressed to one of his subordinates his incredible