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Adolf Hitler

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Updated: June 29, 2023 | Original: October 29, 2009

Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany’s Nazi Party , was one of the most powerful and notorious dictators of the 20th century. After serving with the German military in World War I , Hitler capitalized on economic woes, popular discontent and political infighting during the Weimar Republic to rise through the ranks of the Nazi Party.

In a series of ruthless and violent actions—including the Reichstag Fire and the Night of Long Knives—Hitler took absolute power in Germany by 1933. Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 led to the outbreak of World War II , and by 1941, Nazi forces had used “blitzkrieg” military tactics to occupy much of Europe. Hitler’s virulent anti-Semitism and obsessive pursuit of Aryan supremacy fueled the murder of some 6 million Jews, along with other victims of the Holocaust . After the tide of war turned against him, Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker in April 1945.

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, a small Austrian town near the Austro-German frontier. After his father, Alois, retired as a state customs official, young Adolf spent most of his childhood in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria.

Not wanting to follow in his father’s footsteps as a civil servant, he began struggling in secondary school and eventually dropped out. Alois died in 1903, and Adolf pursued his dream of being an artist, though he was rejected from Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts.

After his mother, Klara, died in 1908, Hitler moved to Vienna, where he pieced together a living painting scenery and monuments and selling the images. Lonely, isolated and a voracious reader, Hitler became interested in politics during his years in Vienna, and developed many of the ideas that would shape Nazi ideology.

Military Career of Adolf Hitler

In 1913, Hitler moved to Munich, in the German state of Bavaria. When World War I broke out the following summer, he successfully petitioned the Bavarian king to be allowed to volunteer in a reserve infantry regiment.

Deployed in October 1914 to Belgium, Hitler served throughout the Great War and won two decorations for bravery, including the rare Iron Cross First Class, which he wore to the end of his life.

Hitler was wounded twice during the conflict: He was hit in the leg during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and temporarily blinded by a British gas attack near Ypres in 1918. A month later, he was recuperating in a hospital at Pasewalk, northeast of Berlin, when news arrived of the armistice and Germany’s defeat in World War I .

Like many Germans, Hitler came to believe the country’s devastating defeat could be attributed not to the Allies, but to insufficiently patriotic “traitors” at home—a myth that would undermine the post-war Weimar Republic and set the stage for Hitler’s rise.

After Hitler returned to Munich in late 1918, he joined the small German Workers’ Party, which aimed to unite the interests of the working class with a strong German nationalism. His skilled oratory and charismatic energy helped propel him in the party’s ranks, and in 1920 he left the army and took charge of its propaganda efforts.

In one of Hitler’s strokes of propaganda genius, the newly renamed National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazi Party , adopted a version of the swastika—an ancient sacred symbol of Hinduism , Jainism and Buddhism —as its emblem. Printed in a white circle on a red background, Hitler’s swastika would take on terrifying symbolic power in the years to come.

By the end of 1921, Hitler led the growing Nazi Party, capitalizing on widespread discontent with the Weimar Republic and the punishing terms of the Versailles Treaty . Many dissatisfied former army officers in Munich would join the Nazis, notably Ernst Röhm, who recruited the “strong arm” squads—known as the Sturmabteilung (SA)—which Hitler used to protect party meetings and attack opponents.

Beer Hall Putsch 

On the evening of November 8, 1923, members of the SA and others forced their way into a large beer hall where another right-wing leader was addressing the crowd. Wielding a revolver, Hitler proclaimed the beginning of a national revolution and led marchers to the center of Munich, where they got into a gun battle with police.

Hitler fled quickly, but he and other rebel leaders were later arrested. Even though it failed spectacularly, the Beer Hall Putsch established Hitler as a national figure, and (in the eyes of many) a hero of right-wing nationalism.

'Mein Kampf' 

Tried for treason, Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison, but would serve only nine months in the relative comfort of Landsberg Castle. During this period, he began to dictate the book that would become " Mein Kampf " (“My Struggle”), the first volume of which was published in 1925.

In it, Hitler expanded on the nationalistic, anti-Semitic views he had begun to develop in Vienna in his early twenties, and laid out plans for the Germany—and the world—he sought to create when he came to power.

Hitler would finish the second volume of "Mein Kampf" after his release, while relaxing in the mountain village of Berchtesgaden. It sold modestly at first, but with Hitler’s rise it became Germany’s best-selling book after the Bible. By 1940, it had sold some 6 million copies there.

Hitler’s second book, “The Zweites Buch,” was written in 1928 and contained his thoughts on foreign policy. It was not published in his lifetime due to the poor initial sales of “Mein Kampf.” The first English translations of “The Zweites Buch” did not appear until 1962 and was published under the title “Hitler's Secret Book.” 

Obsessed with race and the idea of ethnic “purity,” Hitler saw a natural order that placed the so-called “Aryan race” at the top.

For him, the unity of the Volk (the German people) would find its truest incarnation not in democratic or parliamentary government, but in one supreme leader, or Führer.

" Mein Kampf " also addressed the need for Lebensraum (or living space): In order to fulfill its destiny, Germany should take over lands to the east that were now occupied by “inferior” Slavic peoples—including Austria, the Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia), Poland and Russia.

The Schutzstaffel (SS) 

By the time Hitler left prison, economic recovery had restored some popular support for the Weimar Republic, and support for right-wing causes like Nazism appeared to be waning.

Over the next few years, Hitler laid low and worked on reorganizing and reshaping the Nazi Party. He established the Hitler Youth  to organize youngsters, and created the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a more reliable alternative to the SA.

Members of the SS wore black uniforms and swore a personal oath of loyalty to Hitler. (After 1929, under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler , the SS would develop from a group of some 200 men into a force that would dominate Germany and terrorize the rest of occupied Europe during World War II .)

Hitler spent much of his time at Berchtesgaden during these years, and his half-sister, Angela Raubal, and her two daughters often joined him. After Hitler became infatuated with his beautiful blonde niece, Geli Raubal, his possessive jealousy apparently led her to commit suicide in 1931.

Devastated by the loss, Hitler would consider Geli the only true love affair of his life. He soon began a long relationship with Eva Braun , a shop assistant from Munich, but refused to marry her.

The worldwide Great Depression that began in 1929 again threatened the stability of the Weimar Republic. Determined to achieve political power in order to affect his revolution, Hitler built up Nazi support among German conservatives, including army, business and industrial leaders.

The Third Reich

In 1932, Hitler ran against the war hero Paul von Hindenburg for president, and received 36.8 percent of the vote. With the government in chaos, three successive chancellors failed to maintain control, and in late January 1933 Hindenburg named the 43-year-old Hitler as chancellor, capping the stunning rise of an unlikely leader.

January 30, 1933 marked the birth of the Third Reich, or as the Nazis called it, the “Thousand-Year Reich” (after Hitler’s boast that it would endure for a millennium).

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Reichstag Fire 

Though the Nazis never attained more than 37 percent of the vote at the height of their popularity in 1932, Hitler was able to grab absolute power in Germany largely due to divisions and inaction among the majority who opposed Nazism.

After a devastating fire at Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, in February 1933—possibly the work of a Dutch communist, though later evidence suggested Nazis set the  Reichstag fire  themselves—Hitler had an excuse to step up the political oppression and violence against his opponents.

On March 23, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, giving full powers to Hitler and celebrating the union of National Socialism with the old German establishment (i.e., Hindenburg ).

That July, the government passed a law stating that the Nazi Party “constitutes the only political party in Germany,” and within months all non-Nazi parties, trade unions and other organizations had ceased to exist.

His autocratic power now secure within Germany, Hitler turned his eyes toward the rest of Europe.

In 1933, Germany was diplomatically isolated, with a weak military and hostile neighbors (France and Poland). In a famous speech in May 1933, Hitler struck a surprisingly conciliatory tone, claiming Germany supported disarmament and peace.

But behind this appeasement strategy, the domination and expansion of the Volk remained Hitler’s overriding aim.

By early the following year, he had withdrawn Germany from the League of Nations and begun to militarize the nation in anticipation of his plans for territorial conquest.

Night of the Long Knives

On June 29, 1934, the infamous Night of the Long Knives , Hitler had Röhm, former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and hundreds of other problematic members of his own party murdered, in particular troublesome members of the SA.

When the 86-year-old Hindenburg died on August 2, military leaders agreed to combine the presidency and chancellorship into one position, meaning Hitler would command all the armed forces of the Reich.

Persecution of Jews

On September 15, 1935, passage of the Nuremberg Laws deprived Jews of German citizenship, and barred them from marrying or having relations with persons of “German or related blood.”

Though the Nazis attempted to downplay its persecution of Jews in order to placate the international community during the 1936 Berlin Olympics (in which German-Jewish athletes were not allowed to compete), additional decrees over the next few years disenfranchised Jews and took away their political and civil rights.

In addition to its pervasive anti-Semitism, Hitler’s government also sought to establish the cultural dominance of Nazism by burning books, forcing newspapers out of business, using radio and movies for propaganda purposes and forcing teachers throughout Germany’s educational system to join the party.

Much of the Nazi persecution of Jews and other targets occurred at the hands of the Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO), or Secret State Police, an arm of the SS that expanded during this period.

Outbreak of World War II

In March 1936, against the advice of his generals, Hitler ordered German troops to reoccupy the demilitarized left bank of the Rhine.

Over the next two years, Germany concluded alliances with Italy and Japan, annexed Austria and moved against Czechoslovakia—all essentially without resistance from Great Britain, France or the rest of the international community.

Once he confirmed the alliance with Italy in the so-called “Pact of Steel” in May 1939, Hitler then signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union . On September 1, 1939, Nazi troops invaded Poland, finally prompting Britain and France to declare war on Germany.

Blitzkrieg 

After ordering the occupation of Norway and Denmark in April 1940, Hitler adopted a plan proposed by one of his generals to attack France through the Ardennes Forest. The blitzkrieg (“lightning war”) attack began on May 10; Holland quickly surrendered, followed by Belgium.

German troops made it all the way to the English Channel, forcing British and French forces to evacuate en masse from Dunkirk in late May. On June 22, France was forced to sign an armistice with Germany.

Hitler had hoped to force Britain to seek peace as well, but when that failed he went ahead with his attacks on that country, followed by an invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor that December, the United States declared war on Japan, and Germany’s alliance with Japan demanded that Hitler declare war on the United States as well.

At that point in the conflict, Hitler shifted his central strategy to focus on breaking the alliance of his main opponents (Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union) by forcing one of them to make peace with him.

Concentration Camps

Beginning in 1933, the SS had operated a network of concentration camps, including a notorious camp at Dachau , near Munich, to hold Jews and other targets of the Nazi regime.

After war broke out, the Nazis shifted from expelling Jews from German-controlled territories to exterminating them. Einsatzgruppen, or mobile death squads, executed entire Jewish communities during the Soviet invasion, while the existing concentration-camp network expanded to include death camps like Auschwitz -Birkenau in occupied Poland.

In addition to forced labor and mass execution, certain Jews at Auschwitz were targeted as the subjects of horrific medical experiments carried out by eugenicist Josef Mengele, known as the “Angel of Death.” Mengele’s experiments focused on twins and exposed 3,000 child prisoners to disease, disfigurement and torture under the guise of medical research.

Though the Nazis also imprisoned and killed Catholics, homosexuals, political dissidents, Roma (gypsies) and the disabled, above all they targeted Jews—some 6 million of whom were killed in German-occupied Europe by war’s end.

End of World War II

With defeats at El-Alamein and Stalingrad , as well as the landing of U.S. troops in North Africa by the end of 1942, the tide of the war turned against Germany.

As the conflict continued, Hitler became increasingly unwell, isolated and dependent on medications administered by his personal physician.

Several attempts were made on his life, including one that came close to succeeding in July 1944, when Col. Claus von Stauffenberg planted a bomb that exploded during a conference at Hitler’s headquarters in East Prussia.

Within a few months of the successful Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, the Allies had begun liberating cities across Europe. That December, Hitler attempted to direct another offensive through the Ardennes, trying to split British and American forces.

But after January 1945, he holed up in a bunker beneath the Chancellery in Berlin. With Soviet forces closing in, Hitler made plans for a last-ditch resistance before finally abandoning that plan.

How Did Adolf Hitler Die?

At midnight on the night of April 28-29, Hitler married Eva Braun in the Berlin bunker. After dictating his political testament,  Hitler shot himself  in his suite on April 30; Braun took poison. Their bodies were burned according to Hitler’s instructions.

With Soviet troops occupying Berlin, Germany surrendered unconditionally on all fronts on May 7, 1945, bringing the war in Europe to a close.

In the end, Hitler’s planned “Thousand-Year Reich” lasted just over 12 years, but wreaked unfathomable destruction and devastation during that time, forever transforming the history of Germany, Europe and the world.

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich iWonder – Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster, BBC . The Holocaust : A Learning Site for Students, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum .

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Hitler's Leadership Style

By Dr Geoffrey Megargee Last updated 2011-03-30

The image of Hitler as a meddler in military operations is powerful and persistent. He was also stubborn, distrusted his generals and relied too much on his own instinct. Geoffrey Megargee examines the Führer's shortcomings as a military leader.

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How good was Hitler as a military commander? Was he, as his former subordinates claimed after World War Two ended, a meddlesome amateur who kept them from conducting the war properly? What were his strengths and weaknesses, his goals and methods? The answers to these questions reveal a man who was indeed responsible for Germany's downfall, though not entirely in the way that his generals claimed.

Hitler was ... determined to command personally.

Hitler was, first and foremost, determined to command personally. According to his so-called Leader Principle ( Führerprinzip ), ultimate authority rested with him and extended downward. At each level, the superior was to give the orders, the subordinates to follow them to the letter. In practice the command relationships were more subtle and complex, especially at the lower levels, but Hitler did have the final say on any subject in which he took a direct interest, including the details of military operations, that is, the actual direction of armies in the field.

Moreover, as time went on he took over positions that gave him ever more direct control. From leader ( Führer ) of the German state in 1934, he went on to become commander-in-chief of the armed forces in 1938, then commander-in-chief of the army in 1941. Hitler wanted to be the Feldherr , the generalissimo, exercising direct control of the armies himself, in much the same sense that Wellington commanded at Waterloo, albeit at a distance.

... Hitler had an incredible memory for detail and would become annoyed at any discrepancies.

Every point had to be correct and consistent with previous briefings, for Hitler had an incredible memory for detail and would become annoyed at any discrepancies. He supplemented that information by consulting with his field commanders, on very rare occasions at the front, more often by telephone or by summoning them back to his headquarters. As the briefing went on he would state his instructions verbally for his staff to take down and then issue as written orders.

There were several broad sets of problems with Hitler's style of command. These revolved around his personality, the depth of his knowledge, and his military experience, and they exacerbated corresponding problems in the German command system. After the war, the picture emerged of Hitler as a megalomaniac who refused to listen to his military experts and who, as a consequence, lost the war for Germany. That picture emerged due largely to the efforts of his former generals, who had their own reputations to protect. The truth was more complicated, even if Hitler's failings remained at the heart of it.

Certainly his operational decisions, especially early in the war, were sometimes as good as, or better than, those of his generals. He was, after all, one of the two men who first thought up the campaign plan that the Wehrmacht (the German army) used against France with such stunning success in 1940, and he had to push hard before the General Staff would accept it. As time went on he came to believe that Germany's victories were his alone and that most of his generals were narrow-minded, overly cautious and incapable.

... the generals expressed admiration for Hitler's political skills and goals.

For their part, the generals expressed admiration for Hitler's political skills and goals. His defence minister from 1933 to 1938, General Werner von Blomberg, said that Hitler's rise to power represented 'a broad national desire, and the realisation of that towards which many of the best have been striving for years'. Their attitude toward his military leadership, on the other hand, ran hot and cold.

They often recognised his talents - far more than they later wanted to admit. At other times they tried to resist him - though less often, less effectively, and sometimes less justifiably than they later claimed. In any case, he grew ever more distrustful and contemptuous of them as a group, despite the unflagging loyalty that most of them displayed right to the end. As early as 1938 he was heard to say that every general was either cowardly or stupid, and his opinion only worsened with time.

Whatever the problems with his generals, however, there is no doubt that Hitler lacked many of the qualities he needed to control military affairs with consistent success. There have been examples - Churchill was one - of political leaders who successfully interceded in the details of military strategy and operations, but Hitler had neither the experience nor the personality for such a role. He shunned serious, comprehensive intellectual effort and was largely ignorant of military affairs and foreign cultures. He tended to reject any information that did not fit with his (often wildly inaccurate) preconceptions. Instead he relied on his 'instinct' and a belief that the will to win would overcome every obstacle in the end.

No military leader can hope to understand the realities of the situation on the ground from hundreds of miles away ...

His talents - or lack thereof - aside, Hitler took the practice of personal command much too far. No military leader can hope to understand the realities of the situation on the ground from hundreds of miles away, and yet he came to believe that he could control all but the smallest units at the front. At the end of 1942, for example, during the battle of Stalingrad, he actually had a street map of the city spread out before him so that he could follow the fighting, block by block.

Similarly, near the end of the war he ordered that no unit could move without his express permission, and he demanded lengthy reports on every armoured vehicle and position that his forces lost. Such methods guaranteed that opportunities and dangers alike would go unnoticed, that good commanders would be trapped in impossible situations and bad ones allowed to avoid responsibility.

Hitler also combined his insistence on personal control with a leadership style that often consisted of equal parts indecisiveness and stubbornness. He sometimes put off difficult decisions for weeks, especially as the military situation grew worse. In 1943, for instance, his inability to make up his mind about an attack at Kursk eventually pushed the attack back from April to July - by which time the Soviets were well prepared.

Arguments among his commanders and advisors did not help the situation. By late 1942 Hitler's subordinates had split into cliques that competed for increasingly scarce resources, while he remained the final arbiter of all disputes. His senior commanders felt free to contact him directly; they knew that the last man to brief him often got what he wanted. At other times, though, Hitler would cling to a decision stubbornly, regardless of its merits. His decision to attack in the Ardennes in 1944 is one good example: his commanders tried, both directly and indirectly, to persuade him to adopt a more realistic plan, without success.

The image of Hitler as a meddler in military operations is powerful and persistent. One should bear in mind, however, that his desire to control his armies' movements was not the most important factor in Germany's defeat. Hitler's truly critical decisions concerned strategy, that is, the war's timing, targets and goals. His was the only voice that counted at that level, and it was his strategy that led inevitably to Germany's eventual defeat.

He began by accepting war against the British Empire without any clear conception of how to win it. When his initial attempts to solve that problem failed, he reacted by turning against the Soviet Union - his preferred target in any case, for ideological as well as strategic reasons. There again he assumed an easy victory and had no back-up plan when success eluded him.

... only a miracle could have staved off defeat ...

Then, even as the failure of his eastern offensive was becoming obvious, he took on the United States, with whom he considered war to be inevitable in any case. At that point, with Germany fighting simultaneously against the world's three greatest powers, only a miracle could have staved off defeat, and none was forthcoming. From 1942 on, Germany could only hang on and try to exhaust its enemies, but their superior resources and increasingly skilled armies made the outcome first predictable and then inevitable.

This was a situation that Hitler created. Where the Allies had a clear strategic concept, he had none. Ultimately he believed that war was his only tool, that his armies would win the war simply by winning battles, and that they would win battles in large part because of their racial and ideological superiority. He never balanced ends and means at the national level, and no matter how many battles he won, there always seemed to be another one to fight. In the end, his was the nation that exhausted itself.

A final judgement on Hitler's role is one that calls for some balance. No commander works in isolation, no matter how absolute his power might appear. Germany's senior military leaders bear a large measure of responsibility for the onset, character and outcome of World War Two.

No commander works in isolation, no matter how absolute his power might appear.

They shared Hitler's weaknesses as strategists - in fact they were arguably even less talented than he was - and their political attitudes and expansionist ambitions put most of them squarely in the Nazi camp. They supported Hitler's goals but could not help realise them at the strategic level. There was no Alanbrooke or Marshall in the group, nor even an Eisenhower. And for all their supposed professionalism, their operational abilities were not so great as their memoirs make them appear.

The fact remains, however, that Hitler was the driving force behind the war. It was Hitler that provided its ideological basis and its strategic direction; his generals merely went along, however willingly. Hitler also had a hand in nearly all the major operational decisions concerning Germany's running of the war, and his was the leadership that took Germany and Europe into the greatest catastrophe of modern times.

Hitler: Hubris 1889-1936 by Ian Kershaw (London, 1998)

Inside Hitler's High Command by Geoffrey Megargee (University Press of Kansas, 2000)

The Mask of Command by John Keegan (Penguin USA, 1989)

Hitler: Study of a Revolutionary? by Martyn Housden (Routledge, 2000)

Hitler (Introductions to History) by David Welch (UCL Press, 1998)

About the author

Dr Geoffrey Megargee is the author of Inside Hitler's High Command (University Press of Kansas, 2000), which won the 2001 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History. Dr Megargee currently holds the position of Applied Research Scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; his main task there is to organise and edit a multi-volume encyclopaedic history of the camps and ghettos in Nazi Germany and Nazi-dominated Europe.

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"Transformational leadership is a leadership style in which leaders encourage, inspire and motivate employees to innovate and create change that will help grow and shape the future success of the company."

“A charismatic leadership definition is incomplete if it does not focus on the leader personally. More than other popular leadership styles, charismatic leadership depends on the personality and actions of the leader not the process or structure.”

“He was not a 'normal' politician - someone who promises policies like lower taxes and better health care - but a quasi-religious leader who offered almost spiritual goals of redemption and salvation. He was driven forward by a sense of personal destiny he called 'providence'.”

“He learned how to become a charismatic speaker, and people for whatever reason, became enamoured with him. People were most willing to follow him because he seemed to have the right answers in a time of enormous economic upheaval.'

“Ultimate authority rested with him and extended downward. At each level, the superior was to give the orders, the subordinates to follow them to the letter.”

“The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II.”

“Battle of Stalingrad (one of Russia’s important industrial cities) ultimately turned the tide of World War II in favor of the Allied forces.”

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Leadership Styles: Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler Report

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The human qualities of a leader are in many ways more revealing regarding his or her success, the respect of the people, and the appreciation of descendants than education and professionalism. In different historical times, there were both heroes and despised dictators who had power over entire continents and possessed the minds of millions.

This report examines the leadership style of Abraham Lincoln as an example of an ethical leader who was moral in his day, and the regime of Adolf Hitler as an example of a mentally unstable leader blinded by the unlimited authority. Lincoln, although through a long war, achieved the unification of the United States and devoted much effort to the restoration of both parts of the country.

Hitler inspired the German people that only the Aryan nation has the right to live, sent millions to fight for world domination, and was not ready for the resistance of allies. Both leaders in their home countries were perceived as representatives of the people, and both were very popular, especially at the beginning of their careers. However, their beliefs and values were radically different, which significantly affected the results of their activities.

Historical Background of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler is a political leader of Germany, whose activities are associated with such monstrous crimes against humanity, as the Holocaust. He was born on April 20, 1889, in Austria, in the town of Braunau am Inn, located near the German border (Kershaw 13). Adolf’s childhood was spent in constant moving, caused by his father’s work, and changing schools, where he showed no special talents.

He had outstanding ability and craving for fine arts, so first of all he tried to pass the exam to The Art Academy, but failed it. In the next few years, the biography of Adolf Hitler was filled with homelessness, poverty, temporary jobs, sheltering under the bridges, and constant moving from place to place. During this period he did not tell his family or friends about where he was, because he was afraid of conscription, where he would have to serve with the Jews, deeply hated by him.

In March 1924, Adolf Hitler, as one of the organizers of the Beer Hall Putsch, was sentenced to five years in prison. But the Nazi spent less than 9 months there: he was released on December 20, 1924, for still unknown circumstances (Hamilton 38). Shortly after his release, Hitler revived the Party and rearranged it, with the help of Gregor Strasser, into a widespread political power. He managed to remove all obstacles from his path, including the President of Germany and the Reichstag, and become an unlimited dictator.

From that moment on, the country began to oppress Jews and Gypsies, trade unions were closed, and the country turned into a massacre for 10 years of his rule. He immediately created the Wehrmacht, restored aviation and tank troops, as well as long-range artillery. Contrary to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany invaded the Rhine, then Czechoslovakia and Austria.

In 1941, in spring, Hitler invaded Yugoslavia and Greece and hit on the Soviet Union on June 22, led by Joseph Stalin those days. In 1943, the Red Army arranged a massive counter-attack on the German army, so in 1945 the Second World War crossed the border of the Reich, which made the Fuhrer absolutely mad (Hamilton 146). He sent teenagers, old, and disabled people to fight with the Soviet army, demanding the soldiers to stand to the end, while he was well-hidden in the bunker and watched from the sidelines.

On April 30, 1945, when Hitler’s house in Berlin was blocked by the Red Army, the Fuhrer made a decision to kill himself. There are a lot of different versions of how Adolf Hitler died (Payne 232). Some historians claim that the Fuhrer took potassium cyanide, while part of them supposes that he shot his head.

Historical Background of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was a US statesman, one of the founders of the Republican party, the 16th President of the United States, who freed the slaves, an American national hero. He was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, on February 12, 1809 (Buccola 8).

Because he was born in a farming family with poor income, Abraham could not get a full education, went to school no more than a year, and joined the physical work from an early age. At the age of eight, together with his parents, the boy moved to such a place in Indiana, where there was no school nearby at all. Nevertheless, Lincoln learned to read and write, and enjoyed reading. It became an assistant in diligent self-education and a favorite pastime for him.

Young Lincoln had a chance to try a variety of activities – he was a day laborer, carpenter, postman, and lumberjack. In 1830, their family moved to New Salem, Illinois, and Abraham worked as a surveyor, a small clerk in a shop. During the Indian war, Lincoln volunteered for the militia, because the Indians killed his grandfather and grandmother. He was appointed a captain, but he did not serve long and was not involved in the battles.

Working as a postmaster from 1833 to 1836, Lincoln studied law and passed the exam, and in 1836 was granted permission to practice law, which he pursued in subsequent years (Nicolay 43). He succeeded in this field, becoming one of the best lawyers in the state, worked with the Illinois Central railway as a consultant for some time. Such qualities as sharp mind, integrity, honesty, and an unusual gift of eloquence also contributed to his professional growth and strengthening of his authority.

Lincoln’s political biography began in the early 30s with an unsuccessful attempt to take a seat in the statehouse of representatives. However, in 1835, the young Lincoln was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Illinois, where he joined the Whig party. Until 1842, he served as Chairman of the Finance Committee and one of the first persons in his party. The next step in his political career was his election to the US Congress in 1847. Lincoln advocated for the political and civil rights of the broadest masses of the population, such as women’s suffrage. Struggling with slavery, the politician defended stopping the spread of slavery throughout the country. In 1854, Lincoln acted as one of the organizers of the Republican Party. In 1858, he was a candidate for US senators, but he failed the elections.

Lincoln was elected President in 1860 and served from March 1861 to April 1865. The South responded to his appointment by secession, even though the position of the new President was moderate about slavery; a Civil war broke out in the country (1861-1865). On December 30, 1862, the President signed the “Proclamation on liberation,” which freed 4 million people from the yoke of slavery (Foner 2). In 1863, the government forces won crucial victories that eventually broke the resistance of the South and restore the unity of the nation.

In 1864, Lincoln was re-elected for a second presidential term, although he doubted this decision, and some political forces opposed it. April 14, 1865, Lincoln, who was in Washington at the Ford Theater at the play, was shot by actor J. William Booth, a supporter of the southern slave-owners (Nicolay 92). Lincoln died without regaining consciousness, on the morning of 15 April, becoming, thus, the first murdered President of the United States.

During his time in power, he was subjected continuously to sharp critical attacks; however, according to the results of opinion polls, now Lincoln is still among the most loved and respected presidents of the USA. In Washington, there is a memorial in honor of Abraham Lincoln as one of the four heads of the United States, whose activities determined the historical development of the state.

Definition of Leadership

Not everyone is given to be a leader in the best sense of the word. Many believe that being ahead is very prestigious, but poorly aware of what qualities a leader should have to people seeking to follow him and would like to look up to him. A leader can be a person whose interests are much broader than just his own, because he thinks exceptionally widely, and he is most interested in the personal growth, development, and self-realization of other people. Any leader is the bearer of specific moral norms for a particular association of people, so his worldview must comply with the general universal laws – justice, honesty, reliability, responsibility, and a precise sequence of actions.

The Leadership Styles Represented by the Two Leaders

Since Adolf Hitler got his post, a number of concentration camps and death camps were established in Germany, Poland, and Austria, and the first of them was set near Munich. It is well-known that there were about 42 thousand camps, in which millions of people died in torture (Kershaw 64). These specially built centers were designed for terror and genocide against both prisoners of war, the local population, and the so-called useless material, which included women, children, and disabled persons.

The largest Hitler’s death factories became Auschwitz, Lublin, Buchenwald, and Treblinka, in which dissenters were subjected to monstrous torture and experiments with venoms, incendiary mixtures, gas, which in most cases led to the painful death. All concentration camps were set up to eliminate the whole world population of oppositionists, the unwanted races, real criminals, and other destructive elements for the German leader.

The symbol of Hitler’s ruthlessness and fascism was the Polish city of Auschwitz, where the most terrible death conveyors were built, and where about twenty thousand people were killed every day (Kershaw 91). This place became the center of the extermination of Jews: they died in gas chambers straight after arrival even without registration and identification. Auschwitz became a mournful symbol of the Holocaust – the massive liquidation of the Jews, which was recognized as the biggest genocide of the XX century.

President Abraham Lincoln gathered around him the best, brightest politicians, including his political opponents. He demonstrated his leadership by making a group of people a unique team that consisted of the greatest minds of his time. Many soldiers died during the civil war, and Lincoln visited the battlefield and hospitals to maintain the morale of U.S. citizens; he talked to people and shook hands with everyone (Nicolay 66).

Lincoln could communicate his goals to his countrymen; he was attentive and straightforward in communication. He was also able to listen to different points of view, creating an atmosphere in which members of the government could freely express their opinions without fear of retaliation. At the same time, he knew when to stop the discussion, listening to the views of others to make a final decision. When the war was over, Lincoln was re-elected for a second term. The President never talked about his achievements, on the contrary, in his inaugural speech he focused on the reunification of the whole country.

The Leaders Position

When Hitler gained authority, he held a cleanup in his staff – he organized murder than was called “the night of the long knives” when most of the powerful Nazis disturbing the Hitlers infinite power were eliminated. Having assumed the title of the supreme ruler of the Third Reich, the Fuhrer established the police Gestapo and a complex of death camps, where he imprisoned and tortured Gypsies, Jews, political opponents, prisoners of war, and innocent people.

The basis of Adolf Hitler’s domestic policy was the philosophy of racial discrimination and the superiority of noble Aryans over other peoples. His aim was to become the supreme world leader, making the Slavs elite slaves for the master race, and destroying the lower races, to which he ranked peoples like Jews and Gypsies.

In his last speech, Lincoln strongly advocated the peaceful restoration of the southern states to the Union. Their reconstruction included, in addition to the destruction of slavery, the beginning of a confrontation between American society and liberated black People. Lincoln understood the fundamental task of the legal and political equalization of slaves but did not yet know how to implement it given the racist positions in the South and the North. Voting rights for black men in the South could only be achieved by coercion, which was contrary to Lincoln’s idea of agreement and reconciliation.

General Summary

The difference between a dictator and a leader is exceptionally significant, and it can be traced when comparing the leadership style of Hitler and Lincoln. The first of them aspired to the power for the sake of personal ambitions and to vent the irrepressible aggression of the painful consciousness. The Fuhrer experienced constant fear as the war ended and finally went crazy in its last months because he was not ready to be responsible for his actions. Lincoln was guided in his efforts by the needs of the people and tried his best to preserve a single state to protect it from decay and destruction by other countries.

General Statement on Leadership

The experience of both leaders shows that a real leader knows precisely where and why he is going – because it gives him the opportunity to lead his followers. In another case, it will just be a small unit of a large crowd. The leader must be calm, sober-minded, and confident in himself and his compatriots. All these critical qualities help to make the necessary decision in certain critical cases; sometimes he can even take risks because in certain critical situations his determination and courage are increased. Adequate self-confidence significantly extends the limits of the leader’s capabilities, as a result of which he can acquire a new positive life experience.

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