The Life & Death of Adolf Hitler - Cosmo

Halla people!

This is another blog post involving the book, “The Life & Death of Adolf Hitler”, by James Cross Giblin, 226/226 pages into the book, and this time the topic for this blog assignment was actually a few questions, among them: Why is the topic of your book important, what did you learn about this topic, were there parts of the book you didn’t understand/what puzzled you, what questions do you have about this topic and what do you want to learn more about, or do you have any strong desires for further inquiry? I will answer all these questions paragraph by paragraph to come, so sit back, and enjoy.

First of all, the topic of this book is significant because Adolf Hitler was a man who impacted the 20th century enormously, by gaining support and actually performing some horrendous deeds, which followed his beliefs. Now his beliefs were negative, and according to them, there was a hierarchy of races, as I mentioned in one of my earlier blog posts, stretching from the Aryan appearance to the Jews and communists, and Hitler strongly encouraged the fact that they should be annihilated, for they were not worthy enough on Planet Earth. He showed the world what you can do with power and support, so brought awareness for having dictators in a country, to always have a wary eye, and taught us about equality and how racism shouldn’t exist in the world. In conclusion Hitler had great impact and really changed the world for those reasons above, and they provide at least a fair argument to why he was important and seriously influenced our way of thinking.

By spending some time to read this book I actually learned quite a lot about this topic, a life of Adolf Hitler. I was fascinated by his “moves” he made and all the actions that followed, from both the German empire and the allied forces, clearly against his mindset and ideas. With my eyebrows raised I read descriptions of Hitler's strategic movements,

like the flawless increase in the tension around borders in soldiers, and the casual

invasion of Austria and Czechoslovakia back then in the late 1930s and the early 1940s.   

Some things that puzzled me in the beginning of the book how Hitler ever gained support for his murderous deeds to the world, but this became clear to me as it was obvious how he did it. He had the natural talent of intriguing speech, which was very useful in his rise of power. He convinced people his beliefs were the best, etc., etc., etc., and how he could lead Germany to a position of absolute power... Another thing that puzzled me was that the allied forces struck when it was almost too late, but later the book provided an answer of them being to scared and everything. For the rest I understood the book pretty much clearly, and was fascinated too.

Here finally, a paragraph that will conclude my further questions and what I’d like to learn more about. So I have some further questions that I want to be answered, but I know aren’t really gonna be answered..., anyways, here they are: Why didn’t Hitler and Mussolini, (the italian dictator at the time directly join forces to be more stronger? Why did Hitler continue even though his determination was false hope, and he was aware of it? Many of these questions are just strategic battle planning, so let me just stop here. In general I just want to learn more about his life in more detail, which might seem a bit strange, but it is just so interesting to me, and I am sucked up in it now...

Thanks a million for the attention people, and see you later!

Cosmo :)