Ep. 111 Adolf Hitler Part 1: How a Monster Is Made - Lessons to Learn From the Rise of Germany's Infamous Dictator

Throughout all of history there is one name that rises above all the others possibly as the most depraved, heinous, vile human being ever to have walked the planet. Humans worldwide almost unanimously agree, some from the start but most in hindsight, that this man was pure evil. Yes, I am talking of course about the infamous dictator Adolf Hitler. BBC writes quote “Few names from history inspire such immediate and emphatic revulsion as that of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. His hands are stained with the blood of millions killed in the devastation of the Second World War and the horror of the Holocaust. But Hitler was not born a brutal tyrant, he became one,” end quote. He became one. Well that begs the question, of course, how did he become one? How does a normal Austrian boy born to a family of modest means come to take over another country’s government so fully that he acquires the power to engage the entire world in a bloody war while simultaneously murdering millions of innocent men, women, and children? Oh, what, you thought Hitler was German? Turns out, there’s a lot the masses don’t know about Adolf Hitler and his rise to power. And as we well know, to forget history is to risk repeating it. Let’s fix that. 

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Sources: 

• National WWII Museum "How did Adolf Hitler Happen?"
• History.com "Adolf Hitler"
• BBC "Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster"
• Time Magazine "Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938"
• The Atlantic "How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days"
• The Conversation "Understanding how Hitler became German helps us with modern-day extremists" 
• The Atlantic "What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler" 
• History Extra "Hitler's millionaire backers: how Germany's elite facilitated the rise of the Nazis" 
• The Globalist "Trump and Hitler: How Accurate a Comparison?"
• Vanity Fair "Hitler's Doomed Angel"
• BBC "Hitler's Appointment as Chancellor, 1933" 
• Wikipedia "Hitler Family"

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