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Character of Hitler

The purpose of this research is to examine the personality, ideology, and politics of Adolf Hitler, in particular the question of the way in which Hitler's personality and ideology influenced his foreign policy and his policy toward the Jews. The plan of the research will be to set forth the principal elements of Hitler's political program, and then to discuss the ways in which it has been shown to have been realized as a product of the complex admixture of his persona and political beliefs.

The scholarly debate over the authentic character of Adolf Hitler and the clues that it may yield for the understanding of the rise to power and Hitler's exercise of it in Germany has resulted in a host of theories. Although analysis of the rationale behind Hitler's actions differs from scholar to scholar, commentators appear to agree, on the whole, that the two principal expressions of Hitler's rise to power were his aggressive expansionism (i.e, the war in Europe from 1939 to 1945) and his programmatic extermination of Jews. The expansionism may be usefully characterized as foreign policy, while the wholesale murder of the Jews can (broadly) be seen as a formal domestic policy.

Bracher emphasizes the ability Hitler had to as it were invent himself in Mein Kampf, showing the discrepancies between his selfproclaimed development as a politician and the facts of his biography. He cites, for example, Hitler's story of being kept out of the Vienna Academy of Art by the Jews in charge and of being forced into poverty as a mask for the fact that Hitler was a lazy fellow who had limited artistic ability and who lived on a trust fund until his midtwenties. A victim of poverty, the closed doors of bourgeois German life, and Jewry (so he said), he tried to establish himself in Vienna, Linz, Munich; in fact, he was trying to avoid the draft. The significant point about these and other aspects of Hitler's account of himself in Mein Kampf is that the fa...

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