Adolf Hitler

In order to fully understand what the holocaust is, who was involved and why scientists in the camps performed horrendous experiments on its prisoners, we must first understand what could provoke soldiers and normal everyday people like you and me to commit such crimes and be able to, at least on the surface level, accept and hide the true gravity of their actions and their effects on others. Perhaps, we should first analyze the man behind it all, Adolf Hitler.

Hitler didn’t always want to take over the world and commit genocide, his original interests were art. This created a conflict between Adolf and his family, his father in particular as he wanted Adolf to enter the civil services. While his mother was lying on her death bed, Adolf was taking entrance exams to Vienna Academy of the arts in hopes of accomplishing his dream, but unfortunately for him, he was rejected. (Adolf Hitler: Early Years, 1889-1913).

One of Adolf Hitler's greatest strengths is that he was a great orator and was able to slowly manipulate and brainwash the German populous to acquire his ideals and beliefs. The main ideal of course, was the anti-Semitism that ran rampant throughout Europe. Hitler did not simply create a new hatred for a group of people; anti-Semitism existed long before Hitler came to power. He simply tapped into what already existed and used his powers of persuasion to turn the crowd in his favor.

Aside from the anti-Semitism and other prejudices, he took advantage of people's social vulnerabilities. Since people were also feeling isolated and lonely and humans naturally gravitate towards a group environment with the goal of feeling useful or included.

In conclusion, despite Hitler’s actions, he was still a person, a person with emotions and dreams just like us, he, however followed the wrong path. Even those who go off the deep end are still at the end of the day human and imperfect.