Hitler's Past
- Born Austrian - continues to live there for years
- Lives in the slums of Vienna w/ Jewish and Marxist advocates -- begins his anti-Semitic and anti-marxism feelings
- Moves to Munich, Germany in 1913
Hitler's Character
- Shy, awkward, moody, lonely
- Contemptuous of mankind >:(
- Tremendous energy and willpower
- Single minded fanatic
Propaganda Skills
- Great Orator and captured the audience w/ his speeches
- Turned what the crowd wanted to hear into words
Ideas he had
- Social Darwinism/survival of the fittest (German race should override all others)
- All Germans should join together - Pan-Germanism
- "Lebensraum" Germany must expand and become more of a world power to feed growing population
- Believer in socialism - stressing the needs of the national community
- Anti-Marxism and the idea of Karl Marx because he was a non-religious Jew
- Anti-democracy - it provided weak government and needed to be replaced with a single party state
- Anti-capitalism - power that came from being very rich - owners of the big businesses and firms; the Jews
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