Careers of Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler

Still, there are important differences as well between the careers of the two men. As R.R. Palmer and Joel Colton write, for example, despite the fact that Hitler eventually

controlled almost exactly the same geographical area as Napoleon, . . . Hitler never commanded the following of Napoleon. It is significant that he never remotely approached Napoleon in raising an international army to fight his battles. Instead, by what the West called slave labor, he impressed millions of Frenchmen, Poles, Czechs, and others, prisoners of war or civilians, to work under close control in his war industries. No liberating reforms, political, social, legal, like those of Napoleon . . . followed in the wake of Hitler's armies (Palmer and Colton 829).

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ore Germany to a place of power in Europe and the world. In the Germany in which he wrote Mein Kampf, he found a frustrated, angry and bitter audience, reeling from the war defeat and the treaty which weakened Germany even more economically and militarily. The Germans wanted a scapegoat and also wanted to recover their economic and military might. Hitler provided both. He offered the Jews and Communists as scapegoats and offered the image of the German as the symbol of the pure Aryan race which deserved to be the leader of the world. Instead of seeing that they were the cause of their own suffering because they started World War I, and instead of learning from their terrible mistakes and becoming a more humane and humble people, the Germans instead swallowed Hitler's propaganda and repeated the same mistakes on an even more terrible level in World War II and the Holocaust. He wrote, for example: "We demand land and territory (colonies) for the nourishment of our people and for settling our superfluous populations" (Wall 149). Hitler spelled out his plan two decades before he invaded Poland and set off World War II. Unlike Napoleon, Hitler was not formally educated. Unlike Napoleon, before he became Reich Chancellor (his first po
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