ate goal would, therefore, be to obtain power. Hitler had the full intention of becoming a strong political leader; to achieve this goal, he pushed and shoved people around to get what he wanted. He threatened his adver saries and finally got to the point where he wanted to be. Hitler called himself a National "Socialist"; this meant that he combined two parties' general attributes. He ran for election to become chancellor of Germany and lost by a small margin.
Napoleon did not start his political career by struggling for power in politics, but rather was caught in the middle of a struggle for power. He did, in fact, cheat to move up in the rankings as a soldier. David Chandler writers:
He involved himself in local politics, ex-
ploiting a new regulation passed by the
National assembly which permitted regular
officers to hold additional, elected, ranks
in the volunteer battalions being raised in
various areas. On April 1, 1792 Napoleon duly
became Lieutenant-Colonel of the Ajaccio Vol-
unteers, assuring his election by the simple,
unscrupulous, method of arranging for his
fellow-candidates to be kidnapped for the
He almost got killed several times when the opposing party won and took over the state. The opposing party realized that Napoleon was a great soldier and that it would be better to use him than to dispose of him, this, of course, is doubly ad vantageous for the Prince in power. On October 19, 1793 at Toulon, Napoleon proved his virtue in warfare and this was his "claim to" power.
Now, Hitler, on the other hand, had great ambitions that included the destruction of Jews, total control over his people and total control over the whole world. Right from the start, his sole purpose in life was to obtain power. He was born in austria and had little patriotic feeling toward Germany. Napoleon, was torn between patriotism and the achievement of power. He loved Fr...