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Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin Compared

This paper will compare the lives of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. The first part will discuss their backgrounds, including their childhood experiences and families. The second part will examine their personalities, focusing upon the similarities and differences. The third part will compare their respective political careers.

Although Stalin was ten years older than Hitler, both gained leaderships of their respective countries about the same time, the early 1930s. Although the ways in which they attained this power were different, both exercised power in similar fashions. Both were the dictators in their respective countries, sharing the ultimate power with no one. And both probably had greater influence on their countries than any other person in the 20th Century and much of the history of Germany and the Soviet Union since their deaths has been the result of their rules. Although Stalin outlived Hitler by ten years, the most decisive period of his rule in the Soviet Union occurred at the same time Hitler ruled Germany.

Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Djugashvili in Georgia in 1879. His father, a cobbler, was a violent man towards his family, while his mother was very strong willed. Joseph was a favorite of his mother, who saw that he attended the best schools available to a family of their means, eventually sending him to a seminary. Although a good student, he constantly caused trouble and fought against

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to survive personal problems, such as Stalin's time in prison and Hitler's time in prewar Vienna. Hitler's life in Vienna especially would have caused many to commit suicide: alone and without regular employment or a sense of direction; there is no evidence, however, that he ever contemplated suicide. Indeed, this is one great contrast in their lives; Stalin always had a sense of purpose and direction since he joined the Marxist movement immediately after leaving the seminary. On the other hand, this also makes Hitler's sudden rise to prominence and power in Germany all the more remarkable. None who knew him in Vienna could have ever guessed that by the time he was forty-five years of age he would lead one of the strongest powers in the world. Outwardly, their personalities were very different. While Hitler was temperamental and given to visible bursts of rage, Stalin was cool and calculating, suppressing his emotions in public. In person and before audiences, Hitler was definitely the more charismatic and charming of the two, displaying graceful manners and a certain outward warmth. His public speeches would start out hesitatingly but then build in emotion as he felt his audience respond. Stalin was never a good publ

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