The Fuehrer: Crime And Hypocrisy

Adolf Hitler's father, Alois Schicklgruber was the illegitimate child of Maria Schicklgruber. World history could have been different if their rather farcical surname stuck, but it was changed to Hitler before Adolf was born. Austrian by birth, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) emerges from the amorphous vapors of history as a vain vagabond, a failed art student rejected by the Vienna Art Academy. A callous psychopath and a sly conspirator, Hitler became the brutal leader of a great nation and managed to plunge the world into a global war in which an estimated total of 70 or 80 million people had died. His metamorphosis from a Gefreiter, a lance corporal, serving in the Kaiser's army during the First World War, into the Dictator of Germany, the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the Third Reich giving orders to his generals in World War II, represents quite a historical anomaly. Dreaming about a "Thousand-Year-Reich", Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, rose to power as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and soon assumed unrestricted control as the Fuehrer, the supreme leader and dictator of the Third Reich. The balloon of the dream popped in 1945 and the nightmare of the Nazi- Empire, which brought undescribable suffering to the world, came to an inglorious end after twelve years of horrible bloodshed and misery, roads and bridges destroyed and cities lying in smouldering ruins. Many underestimated the dangers that the Nazis posed to human rights and freedom. The political satirist Kurt Tucholsky ridiculed the Nazis; quipping once that Hitler doesn't exist, "only the noise that he makes." Unfortunately, the Nazi dictator proved to be more than a clamorous incubus. Herr Hitler managed to delude both the politicians and the masses through his habitual deception and treachery schemes; by promising peace and preparing for war. A cynical and cunning Machiavellist, the Fuehrer perfected the art of perfidy.He advanced his goals by offering guarantees and pacts to the states that he intended to destroy. He bluntly broke the promises he made and seldom honored the agreements that he signed. In a speech he delivered in 1935, Hitler vowed that Germany does not intend to interfere in the internal affairs of Austria and does not plan to append her to the Third Reich through Anschluss. However, three years later, the fuehrer did annex Austria. In the notorious Munich agreement of September 1938, Hitler promised that the annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia would be his last territorial claim in Europe. Yet, in March 1939 Slovakia seceded as a Nazi satellite and Hitler triumphantly marched into the Czech capital, proclaiming from the Prague Castle that Bohemia and Moravia became a German Protectorate. Back in 1934, the Nazi dictator signed a non-aggression pact with Poland.Five years later he withdrew from the agreement.Then he staged a fake Polish military attack on a German radio station, which he used as pretext to invade Poland. On September 1,1939,62 German divisions, supported by 1300 aircraft, poured across the Polish border. And so the Second World War began. One week before the start of the war, Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact. But Hitler broke the agreement and on June 22,1941, Operation Barbarossa began. It deployed the largest military invasion force in history. About three million soldiers of the Axis powers attacked the Soviet Red Army, along a nearly 3,000 km long front. The invading Wehrmacht forces deployed more than 150 divisions and 600.000 motor vehicles including about 3,800 tanks and4,300 aircraft. The Fuehrer chiseled his name into history as a monstrous war criminal and mass murderer. He ordered his armies to be ruthless and to terrorize the populations of the occupied territories. And, indeed, as the German armies advanced through Russia, they destroyed thousands of villages and towns, burning the inhabitants alive. Mobile killing squads, the Einsatzgruppen of SS deployment groups, massacred Jews and "Bolsheviks" in the Baltic area, in Belarus and the Ukraine.In one of these dreadful atrocities that occurred outside of Kiev on 29-30 September,1941, the SS shot into a ravine at Babiy Yar over 30,000 Jewish men, women and children. The great Russian poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko memorialised the massacre in his poem, Babiy Yar: "No monument stands over Babiy Yar… and I myself am one massive, soundless scream above the thousand-thousand buried here I am each old man here shot dead I am every child here shot dead. Nothing in me shall ever forget! " Hitler's countless war crimes and crimes against humanity include the 1942 atrocity in Lidice near Prague. Here, in reprisal for the assassination of SS Police Genaral Reinhard Heidrich, the Nazis killed 173 men of the village, sent 82 children to their death at Chelmno and deported 184 women to the Ravenstruck concentration camp. Another well-documented massacre happened in France in 1944 at Oradour-sur-Glane, where the Waffen SS slaughtered 642 civilians-men, women and children. Hitler's Third Reich imprisoned millions of people in concentration camps. The treatment of the prisoners was extremely cruel. Hunger, beatings, torture and executions were an integral part of the lager experience. Also many prisoners were subjected to inhuman medical experiments. The Fuehrer perpetrated the dreadful horrors of the Holocaust. The genocidal extermination of Jewish men, women and children was carried out in open air shootings by SS killing squads, by starvation and exhaustion in ghettoes, such as Warsaw and Lodz, in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and Majdanek and in the death camps of Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno and Belzec. Yet the Shoah (Holocaust) transcends the colossal Jewish tragedy because it is also a universal tragedy. Thus, in addition to the six million Jews, among Holocaust martyrs are thousands of gentiles from France, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Holland, Germany as well as othere countries. Moreover, Holocaust victims also include seven million Soviet citizens and prisoners of war, three million ethnic Poles, half million Romani, thousands of Freemasons, Jehova Witnesses and homosexuals. The Nazi dictator's crimes involve transgressions against his own people. In the summer of 1939, for instance, Hitler signed a note that authorized the murder of disabled and incurably sick individuals.This forced euthanasia program was code named"Aktion T4" and took place between 1939 and 1945. The number of T4 victims may have reached more than 200,000 children and adults. Adolf Hitler was a chronic and shameless hypocrite. In the eyes of the Nazi dictator the people of the Aryan ‘master race' were blond, blue eyed and tall. He himself was none of these. The racist Nuremberg Laws of 1935 made anti-Semitism an intrinsic part of the official ideology in the Third Reich. However the Nazis measured crossbreeds, the ‘mischlinge', with different yardsticks. After all, did not the Reich Marshal Hermann Goering say that he decided who was a Jew? Mischlinge under National Socialism, like Luftwaffe Field MarshalErhard Milch and General Helmut Wilberg, had been reclassified and declared as Aryans by Adolf Hitler himself. The Fuehrer loved music, particularly Wagnerian operas. He was influenced by the anti-Semitism of Richard Wagner. However, the Nazi dictator also liked operettas and one of his favorite musicians was the Hungarian Jewish composer Emmerich Kalman. Following the 1938 Anshcluss Kalman and his family moved from Austria to France. Yet one day in the spring of 1940 a German general knocked on the composer's door. He said that he was a personal emissary of Hitler and that the German leader offered Kalman the title of ‘honorary Aryan'. The composer was a courageous man. ‘Who would guarantee my life if I go to Germany? ' he asked. ‘I will', replied the general. ‘But who will guarantee yours? ' Kalman said. Shortly after this The composer and his family boarded A ship in Genoa and sailed for America. Hitler was a baptised Catholic. in May 1904, at the age of fifteen, he also receivedthe Sacrament of Confirmation in the Linz Cathedral. He had never formally left the Church. History has recorded, for example, that in 1941 the Fuehrer affirmed that he is a Catholic and will always remain so. But he was and remained a bigoted Catholic. In reality Hitler used Christianity as part of a scheme of his cunning Politics aimed at mustering wide public support for the National Socialist agenda. The Fuehrer was not only a vicious anti-Semite but also an anti-Chrisian fascist, a Social Darwinist preaching hatred and violence. He viewed the Christian religion as the prototype of Bolshevism, a Jewish instrument for the mobilization of the masses, with the object of undermining society. He encouraged Nazi leaders, among them Goebbels, Himmler and Bormann, to conduct persecutory campaigns against the churches. Dachau and other concentration camps in the Third Reich were filled with thousands of Catholic priests, Protestant pastors and Jehova's Witnesses. The Bible represented an insurmountable problem for the Fuehrer.He could not pretend of being a Catholic without accepting the Jewish origins ofthe faith. After all, one cannot be a Christian without the Hebrew Bible, ‘The Old Testament'. The New Testament complicated things even more because of the Jewishness of Jesus. The Gospels make it crystal clear that Jesus was born, lived and diedas a Jew. In order to overcome this problem, Hitler resorted to blatant lies. And thus, contrary to the established facts, he declared that Jesus was not a Jew. However, Jesus was a Jew and it was not a lack of will that the Nazis did not crucify him again. Had he been alive, in accordance with the Nuremberg Laws, hewouldhavewalked with his people to the gas chambers in Auschwitz. Hitler lived throughout his life immersed in hypocrisy till the very end. Mind you, he considered German soldiers who committed suicide during battle as unworthy cowards. According to him, they lost their honor as German soldiers fighting for the Fuehrer's cause. Yet on April 30,1945, as the Soviet Red Army advanced towards his bunker in Berlin, Hitler took the cowardly way out: He put a pistol to his head and blew his brain out.