Why is Hitler so Ruthless?

Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 until the end of World War II in 1945. Today, we associate this figure with the embodiment of evil, and we believe that such a person was born evil. It is not the case though. Hitler was born into a dysfunctional family, with an abusive and short-tempered father, and a domineering and spoiling mother. He would continuously have temper tantrums if he didn't get his way, and he remained this mentally unstable for the rest of is life. He was considered a failure to many, and his failures made him believe that the world was out to get him, and that the only way he was to succeed was to get to them first. He also had a nationality problem. He was Austrian, but he believed that he was German at heart. He also had a dream of being an artist, and his dream was brutally crushed when he was rejected to an art school in Vienna. Hitler's only fun time in life was when he moved to Germany and enlisted in the army. He loved war, a thing that many of us today would find strange to believe. He volunteered for dangerous missions, and the army gave him a family he could relate and bond with. When he was temporarily blinded my a mustard gas attack in 1917 near the end of the war, he was sent into recovery at a German hospital. He hated that Germany surrendered, and the Treaty of Versailles had humiliated them. This time in the army and as a part of a dysfunctional family led him to believe that the world needs to change, and that he was the person to do it.

After World War I, Hitler became a politician for the National German Socialist Workers' Party, which he joined, and he steadily rose up the ranks of, giving moving speeches, and soon enough, he was the leader of the Nazi Party. He attempted a coup in Munich, and he was arrested for nine months, where he wrote his book Mein Kampf, which laid out his plans for world domination. The people of Germany loved him, as he wanted to bring the country back to former glory, and sharing his similar views to the people: the revoking of the Treaty of Versailles; building up the economy and army, and the extermination of undesirables. He made these things happen too, until his suicide in 1945 at the end of World War II. He denounced the Jews, stripping them of jobs and rights, and later killing them at concentration camps. He killed and imprisoned his "enemies," who were his political opponents, in the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. He also annexed and invaded countries to reunite all ethnic Germans separated after World War I ended. He used the powers of speech and blood to make himself the leader of Germany, and until his death in 1945, he ordered the killings of 6-8 million Jews in concentration camps, as his radical ideas said so. He was allowed to be so ruthless because he said he was doing it for the sake of Germany greatness. He was so ruthless because of his childhood, where he was abused and spoiled. His time in World War I, where Germany's defeat and the Treaty of Versailles made him hate the rest of the world, his time as a runner on the streets of Munich and Vienna made him a hardline anti-Semite, as the people who influenced him were following the trend of anti-Semitism, and his rise to power in the Nazi Party, and later, the Weimar government, made him act like a megalomaniac, with nothing in his way to enact laws that made himself the absolute ruler of Germany, and the undesirables below him cower in fear as they were persecuted and killed without remorse. Hitler today is known synonymously with evil, but his past made him what he was during his reign as dictator of Germany, and that is why he was so ruthless against so many people.