Who was Adolf Hitler? Was he really a Great Orator? Check out some facts about him and his famous quotes!

By Anshika Jain Published on November 12, 2021, 03:21 IST

One of the most famous but criticized figures in World history who also became the subjects of various books, documentaries and TV shows, Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his death. He was a great orator whose voice and plans crept to the depth of Germans and influenced them. He is mainly known for the massive massacre done by him during his rule and in the Second World War. Let’s check out some facts about him.

He was born in Austria in 1889 and moved to Germany in 1913 and provided his his services in the German Army in World War I and also earned the the Iron Cross First Class medal.
He became a part of the German Workers’ Party (DAP) in 1919, whose successor was the Nazi Party and then in 1921 he was appointed leader of the Nazi Party. In 1923, he planned to seize control of Bavaria, March to Berlin and capture power but failed at sent to prison for 5 long years.
After getting out early in 1924 he gained popularity because of his speaking skills as he attacked the Treaty of Versailles and promoted pan-Germanism, anti-Semitism and anti-communism. He promised to weed out foreign influences and resist conspiracies. He campaigned with red banners with Swastika for support.
On 30th January 1933, he was offered the Chancellor post by President Hindenburg and he dismantled structures of democratic rule in Germany.
Shortly after, The Enabling Act of 1933 was passed 3rd March which resulted in the transformation of the Weimar Republic into Nazi Germany, a one-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism.
He had a lot of hatred for jews and gypsies as he believed that they were the enemies of Germany and were the reason of the defeat of Germany in first world War. It led to the beginning of holocaust or genocide by him in which he mass murdered in concentration camps. He killed about 6 million jews millions of other innocents.
Hitler’s policy of Lebensraum in which he mass murdered Jews to create living space for the superiors and his harsh foreign policy became the major reasons of the Second World War as he invaded Poland in 1939 and then attempted to invade Soviet Union in 1941.
This led to the declaration of war by Britain and France i.e the Allied Powers. The German forces and Axis Powers were able to capture areas of Europe and North Africa but at the end, they lost the war in 1945.
Hitler married his love of life Eva Braun on 29 April 1945 in Berlin and due to Hitler’s atrocities, they committed suicide within less than 2 days of their marriage in order to avoid capture by the Soviet Red Army.

The feared dictator, Adolf Hitler was the ’embodiment of modern political evil’ but as we know, he was an enthusiastic and moving orator. So let’s check out his famous quotes.

“If you win, you need not have to explain…If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
“Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”
“If you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.”
“And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.”
“Think Thousand times before taking a decision But – After taking decison never turn back even if you get Thousand difficulties!!”
“Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.”
“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.”
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”
“Words build bridges into unexplored regions.”
“The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.”
“To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.”
“The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.”
“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”
“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
“If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.”
“The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.”
“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty.”
“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”
“Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.”
“Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.”
“He who would live must fight. He who doesn’t wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.”
“My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see i was right.”
“Winning without problem is just victory , but winning with lots of trouble create History ..”
“I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great speakers and not to great writers.”
“The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.”
“It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.”
“When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn’t Follow You.”
“If you dont like a Rule… Just Follow it.. Reach on the Top.. and Change the Rule.”

It is said that when Hitler used to give speeches, however big the audience is, everyone listened to him quietly. He talked about their insecurities and problems and made promises. During his first six years in power, his efforts rapid economic recovery from the Great Depression but his policies were not right. Along with jews and gypsies, he is also responsible for the killing of about 19.3 million civilians and prisoners of war. In addition, 28.7 million soldiers and civilians died in Europe during second world War. It was one of the deadliest period in the world history for which he is credited and cannot be forgotten.