Which historical figure was more cold-blooded and ruthless?

Adolf Hitler, M (Adolf Hitler) (April 20, 1889, 18:30 p.m.-April 30, 1945, 3:30 p.m.), was born on the border between Bavaria and the Austrian city of Braunau (Braunau am Inn, Linz, Braunau on the Rhine) and died in Berlin. Hitler was the president of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazi Party, and the Führer of the German Third Reich, and the number one war criminal of World War II. At the same time, he was a brilliant orator, brutal politician and overly adventurous military man, as well as ambitious and conspiratorial.

Hitler came to Vienna in his early years with dreams of being a painter. Joining the German army during World War I, he was a corporal and won the Iron Cross. Stumbled upon fascism after the war and began to spread it. In his early years, he was imprisoned for rioting and wrote the book "Mein Kampf" while in prison, expressing his views on various aspects, such as the annexation of Austria, the massacre of the Jews, and dictatorship. 1933.1.30 he became the Chancellor of Germany; he cracked down on the dissenting party (Deutsche ****producers) through the "Reichstag arson case". 1934.8.1 the President of Germany Hindenburg died of illness, and Hitler became the President of Germany. After the death of President Hindenburg on August 1, 1934, Hitler became the President of Germany and combined the offices of President and Chancellor into a single office called Führer, with unlimited powers, and commanded all military forces, as well as judges and government officials, to swear allegiance to him. As Führer, he became the sole ruler, or dictator, of state power, integrating all political and social institutions except the military and the church. He was also Supreme Commander of the German Armed Forces during the Second World War. Germany during his rule was officially known as the Greater German Reich and the German Empire, and was often referred to as Nazi Germany, the German Third Reich, or Hitler's Germany.

During the early stages of the Third Reich, some of his economic measures helped to ease the German economy out of the morass of the post-World War I period and gained him the support of the lower classes as a result, as well as an incendiary mass movement.

However, in terms of political system, Germany under Hitler's leadership tended to be ultra-national conservative compared to the Weimar **** and State period. He formed the Axis Powers in alliance with Italy under Mussolini and Japan under Hideki Tojo, which led directly to World War II. The German army under his leadership intervened in the Spanish Civil War, supported the Franco regime, and annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia, and invaded Poland, France, Britain, and the Soviet Union.

Domestically, he practiced a fascist one-party dictatorship of terror, hated and rejected other non-Nazi political parties and ideas, including the ****anist movement, and established the first concentration camps for the ****anist party, as well as advocating national supremacy and hatred of other peoples. Nazi military organizations independent of the Wehrmacht, such as the storm troopers, the SS, and the Gestapo, were established in the country. During the Third Reich under Hitler, a policy of genocide was practiced, death camps were built in large numbers in Germany and in the territories of the countries it occupied, and Jews, as well as other races, were subjected to the Holocaust. According to rough estimates, a total of about 6 million Jews and tens of millions of other races were massacred as a result of Hitler's genocidal policies. Other peoples and nations were treated with brutal methods of plunder during the military occupation.

Writing Mein Kampf

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Hitler's coup d'état failed, but he made a fortune in propaganda capital for himself and his party out of the defeat. Since the Chief Justice had no principled disagreement with Hitler on the idea of "statism", he was sentenced to the lightest possible punishment - five years' imprisonment, which could be commuted if he behaved well. In fact, Hitler was pardoned and not deported after serving only eight months of his sentence. Even during this eight-month period, he was treated very well: in addition to being allowed special meals, he lived in a comfortable one-room cell with two windows and plenty of sunlight. He was free to correspond, to receive visits from friends and relatives, to receive wreaths and congratulations from them on his birthday, and had the privilege of carrying his secretary and of going for walks and gymnastics in the open air. At noon he dined in the lounge, where a Banner was hung on the wall, and at that time he spoke eloquently. So by the end of Hitler's "sentence" in the guarded prison, where prisoners' reputations were not affected, most of the staff had become committed Nazis.

Hitler dictated his book, Mein Kampf, Volume I (Volume II appeared two years later), to Rudolf Hess, who had volunteered to follow him to prison during his eight months there. This work is neither a memoir nor an embodiment of Hitler's worldview; in fact, it is a grand synthesis of statist, imperialist, racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-democratic thinking. Anti-Semitism is a thread running through the book. He believed that the Jews and Slavs were inferior peoples and that the Aryans were the superior race and therefore it had the right to conquer and dominate other peoples. Another idea of the book was the promotion of vengeance. Hitler claimed that the Peace of Versailles had to be torn up and that a score had to be settled with France, the German people's "sworn enemy". He claimed that the shame and hatred imposed on Germany by the peace treaty had been seared into the hearts and minds of 60 million men and women and had become a pervasive flame. Propaganda for foreign expansion is another theme of the book. Seize living space, expand territory, and conquer the world. He declared that he "will set his sights on that country in the East" and that "what cannot be acquired by peaceful means will be taken with the fist." Hitler also attacked parliamentary democracy, propagated authoritarian dictatorship, opposed Marxism, and promoted fascist theories in his book. The book Mein Kampf was seen as a program of fascist theory and action, the bible of the Nazi party. It painted Hitler in a glamorous light and appealed to the resentment that was widespread in Germany at the time, and as a result it had a large circulation during the Nazi regime and was extremely widely circulated.

July 20, 1944, Hitler escaped the "Wolf's Lair" bomb assassination, and then returned to Berlin, living in the Chancellery under the underground bomb shelter, and in the company of Goebbels and other cronies and his mistress, Eva Braun, accompanied by the eerie atmosphere of despair and fantasy, commanded the war, hiding in the basement, he often trembled. basement, he was often shaking in his limbs, staring blankly, looking pale, and speaking breathlessly. Even then, Hitler held out hope that the war would soon take a turn for the worse. However, the reality was merciless, the speed of the Allied advance was getting faster and faster, Hitler's illusion of getting out of the predicament was completely shattered, so on March 19, 1945, he ordered the destruction of all "military, transport, communication, industrial and supply facilities within Germany and anything that the enemy could use in some way, either immediately or in the near future, in order to continue the war! ". When Speer, who was asked to carry out the order, objected, Hitler still shouted: "If the war is lost, the people are finished. ...... For the people have proved to be weak, and the future will only belong to the more powerful Orientals. After this war is over, all that will be left will be only inferior people anyway, because the good elements have already been killed in battle." On April 12, 1945, U.S. President Roosevelt died. When Hitler learned the news, he was suddenly hopeful that the war would take a turn for the better, and this hopeful atmosphere lasted until Hitler's birthday on April 20. On April 22, Berlin was 3/4 surrounded by the Soviet Red Army, and it was only then that Hitler woke up and saw the facts in front of him. He said, "The war is defeated ...... I will stay in Berlin, and as soon as the moment comes, I will end my life with a pistol." But at the same time he berated his countrymen: "The armed forces have deserted me, my generals are all straw men, my orders have not been carried out, everything is finished ...... Germany has failed to fulfill the task I proposed to the whole nation." On April 27, all of Berlin was completely surrounded by Soviet troops.On April 28, Hitler's wartime ally, Italy's Mussolini, was captured and shot by partisans and hung upside down, head first, from the roof of a Milanese garage for public display. On the same day, Hitler also learned that his deputy Himmler was attempting to negotiate with the Western powers; Hitler was thus completely discouraged and felt that his end was near. He began to dictate his political will, but he still had to berate the Jews, demanding that his successors "must do everything in their power to abide by the laws of the race and to resist mercilessly the international Jewish syndicate, the poisoners of the peoples of the world." At midnight on April 28, 1945, Hitler and his mistress, Eva Braun, were formally married, and on April 29, Soviet tanks advanced on the zoo near the train station, and on April 30, the Soviets finally captured the Reichstag after heavy fighting. By this time Hitler's Chancellery was within range of artillery fire. At 3:30 p.m., Hitler and Eva returned to their bomb-sheltered room in the basement, put a pistol gun to their foreheads, and shot themselves. Eva Braun, in turn, swallowed poison at the same time. Their bodies were wrapped in military blankets by attendants, carried to the garden of the Chancellery, and cremated with gasoline in accordance with Hitler's will. Hitler's imaginary "Reich of a Thousand Years" died with him, and on the night of May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany officially surrendered and was defeated. Hitler's ashes were never found. One plausible explanation is that "Soviet artillery fire swept away all traces of him in the garden", and after the war there were rumors that Hitler was still alive, but there was no convincing evidence. The Allies are said to have found Hitler's not-yet-completely-burned body in the ruins of the Chancellery, which is believed to have been that of Mr. and Mrs. Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda ministers who committed suicide a little later, and Hitler had once said, "There are two ways of measuring a man, either by the kind of woman he marries, or by what kind of a death he has." This statement was not only for himself, but also for his prophet, Goebbels. During his lifetime, Hitler said, "I want the world to remember me for a thousand years!" Nazi German Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch said, "There is no escaping the fact that Hitler is the hijacking of Germany" Nazi German Governor-General in Poland, Hans Franck, said before he was executed in Nuremberg, "A thousand years are easy to pass, but Germany's sins are hard to undo." Hitler's favorite musician was Richard Wagner, and his favorite opera was Lohengrin, and he used to use nouns from the opera as mission names. For example, Operation Magic Fire, a transportation operation to Franco's rebels in the Spanish Civil War.

Collection of Hitler quotes

"Our struggle can have only two results: either the enemy passes over our dead bodies, or we pass over the dead bodies of our enemies."

"If someone says: You dream! I can only answer him: you fool, where would we be today if I were not a dreamer? I have always believed in Germany, and you said I was a dreamer; I have always believed in the rise of the empire, and you said I was a fool; I have always believed that I could regain my power, and you said I was crazy; I have always believed that poverty would come to an end, and you said that it was utopia. Who was right? You or me? I'm right, and I always will be!"

"A nation is going through turmoil, and we, by the gods of fortune."

"We should be happy, the future shall be entirely ours!"

"Germany's tomorrow depends on you, young Germans!"

"We must bite the bullet and do something with all our might; otherwise, we will accomplish nothing."

"Every generation should experience at least one war."

"I have come to finish the unfinished business of Jesus Christ."

"They'll have to watch out, there will come a time when our patience comes to an end, and then we'll shut those shameless Jews up for good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"I can't believe that those who used to laugh at us constantly, now, they are still laughing!!!"

"You must solemnly swear after me that what we need is peace, and what we need is dedication to our cause."

"The weak forget!"

"If the Germanic nation is not strong enough to bathe in blood in defense of its own existence, it shall perish."

"If my people fail in this experiment, I shall not weep for it; it is they who have chosen such an end."

"Transcendent minds do not exist with mortal ****."

"We have set a goal and will strive for it until death!"

"Only the insane masses are tame."

"The masses are blind and stupid"

"I got everything by following the rules"

"The masses are like a woman who lets me do whatever I want! "

"The unshakeable purpose of women's education is to raise children."

"A woman's intellect is utterly useless."

"Only treaties that work for me are valid."

"We have always been, and will continue to be, adventurous about everything."

"I always want to fight."

"No one can take away our honor. For the sake of the German people we must fight for 15-20 years"

"I would rather wage war at 50 than at 55 or 60."

"The times call for war not peace."

"The ultimate goal of politics is war."

"We can only defend peace with weapons."

"World war or no world war is the same to me."

"As long as there is one German alive, the war will continue." (Wishful thinking on the part of the Führer - Wo comment)

"Our movement is anti-parliamentary."

"Great liars are also great magicians."

"A government is blessed when the people don't think."

"My will decides everything."

"We are about to systematically and mercilessly destroy the enemy, root and branch."

"Only death awaits them if they betray their country!"

''The dictatorship of the strongest then becomes the strongest...''

On January 20, 1942, the infamous "Wannsee Conference" began and ended with the destruction of Nazi Germany as a result of the World War II anti-fascist war. At this stage, the core of Nazi Germany's anti-Semitism was the "final solution" for the Jews, in the form of complete brutality, horrific murder, and in essence, the ultimate realization of the extermination of the Jews.

January 2, 1942, under the auspices of the Nazi secret police chief Heydrich, convened 14 departments, including the Gestapo chief Müller, senior officials, in a villa next to the Lake of Want (also translated as Lake of Want) meeting, to study the layout of the plan for the large-scale systematic slaughter of the Jews, the meeting passed the "final solution" is to take the Jews, the Jews, the Jews, the Jews, the Jews, the Jews, the Jews, the Jews. The "final solution" was to transport the Jews to the East for labor, "the greater part of whom will undoubtedly be exterminated by natural diminution," and "the last remaining portion of the most resistant will have to be disposed of in a corresponding manner." . To put it bluntly, the "final solution" was either to poison or torture the Jews to death, or to torture them to death - in a word, final annihilation.

After the "Wannsee Conference", Nazi Germany fully implemented measures for the mass extermination of Jews. According to a conversation in August 1944 by Eichmann, a first-class SS commando chief who was in charge of searching for and exterminating Jews at the time, it was confirmed that more than 4 million people died in extermination camps at that time, and 2 million were killed in other ways. The vast majority of them were Jews, except for a very few anti-fascists of other nationalities.

The history is traced for the sake of illustration. The above historical facts show that: 1) During the more than 12 years of Hitler's dictatorship, he pursued a series of anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish policies, all of which were aimed at depriving the Jews of their right to existence and development, up to their physical extermination. All these are only differences in form and degree, not in substance. When a person is deprived of all his rights to existence as a human being, physical extermination is only a matter of time. Therefore, it can be said that Hitler's killing machine ran through all three stages of his escalating anti-Semitic extermination of the Jews. If a distinction is to be made, then the first stage can be described as all the preparations for the killing machine; the second stage is the manifestation of the killing machine; and the third stage should be characterized as the full implementation of the killing machine. "The massacre of millions of Jews by the Nazis after the Wannsee Conference can only be seen as the final step in Hitler's `final solution' to the Jewish problem. In fact, the racial revenge, racial vendetta had already begun. Hitler's killing machine was directed at the extermination of the entire Jewish people, but it was never opened against other peoples. This was by no means a mercy on his part. There lies deep within the specific logic of Hitler's creation of this historical mystery, which becomes the opportunity for us to solve this historical mystery.