Analysis of Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein

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The first person I am going to compare of the two people is Adolf Hitler. A very well known man during the 1930's. He is one of the world's most known and hated leader.

Hitler is called mad. His men were cultivated, educated, learned men. Germany wasn't a backward country, preyed on by ignorance, but one of the most advanced nations in the world. Hitler's program was one for evil and destruction and yet the majority of the people in Germany accepted it. Time has not dimmed the terms storm troops, gas chambers, death camps , and holocaust.

On the morning of September 15 1930, early editions of newspapers across Germany brought the first reports that Adolf Hitler's National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) had scored a stunning electoral triumph. Only Two years earlier, the party had languished in obscurity. The NSDAP had become the second largest party in the Weimar Republic.

It had less than thirty members, only three of which were active political speakers. The organization would probably have remained this way had it not been for the extraordinary leadership and propagandistic talents of Adolf Hitler who joined the party in 1919.

Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in 1889. When World War I broke out, Hitler enthusiastically enlisted in the German army. His life was going nowhere and the war provided him with something to fill the void. He was looking for an adventure. In the war, he proved a dedicated and brave soldier. He was temporarily blinded by poisonous gas and was shot in the leg. He learned a lot about violence and its uses. But he was never promoted to a leadership position. He was very nationalistic and anti-Semitic like many other disillusioned soldiers. He was sure his purpose in life was to lead Germany.