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Views of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler This paper will examine the views

responsible for not only the general direction of German domestic and foreign policy, but also for most of the particulars of each policy. He allowed rivalries between agencies and their ministers, sacrificing efficiency for the continued strength of his own position: quarreling agencies could not combine against him.

Bullock linked Hitler's actions with a lust for power and a craving to dominate. This motivation could be traced back to his days as a discharged soldier immediately after the First World War, although Bullock claimed that these feelings were present in a latent form prior to 1918. This craving was fed by a very marked sense of resentment against a world which had slighted and ignored him from his childhood; this resentment grew into an anger towards the intellectuals and educated middle-classes, and especially towards the Jews. In addition, he probably believed that world history and historical events outweighed morality and its personal quest for certain personal virtues. Bullock attributed to Hitler a belief in his own selection by Providence for great actions; as such, he was exempt from the "ordinary canons of human conduct." Thus, he required no conscience which would hinder him in his mission of great historical significance. Bullock stated that this attitude eventually turned on Hitler, in the form of a destructive megalomania.

Prior to the 1960s, Bullock's interpretation represented the most commonly accepted scholarly views on Hitler. One of the first challenges to this interpretation came from British historian A.J.P. Taylor. Taylor argued that Hitler was not the all-powerful dictator of the standard interpretation, but a popularly-elected German statesman who reacted to events within and without Germany. Hitler did not plan the events of the late 1930s, he simply reacted to the policies of countries such as France and Britain. Similarly, Taylor attributes the invasion of Poland to a series of blunders on...

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