Hitler

            
             "When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church -- and there was nobody left to be concerned." .
             -- Rev. Martin NiemÖller.
             Germany was in ashes after W.W. I., and then was caught in the worldwide depression. Action needed to take place in Germany and there was only one man who had the unique combination of traits to bring Germany out of those ashes and his name was Adolf Hitler. Hitler, a charismatic, intelligent, rose to power in Germany during the 1920s-1930s at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval (Adolf Hitler Internet) Hitler led Germans to his ideas of a perfect race by blaming the Jews for Germany's problems. He used the Jews and other groups of people as scapegoats. Hitler said that he would be able to solve the Nation's problems and promised different things to different groups of people. Furthermore, the traits developed by Nazism during Hitler's rise to power became the major characteristic of it exercise of power: charismatic leadership, unrelenting propaganda, "institutional Darwinism- advancement of opportunists, and the infiltration of the socioeconomic infrastructure (Allen vii). From the events that took place in post World War I through the pre World War II, one can foresee how anthropology can help explain how one person can convince a group of people to do the horrible acts they committed. .
             Adolf Hitler left the German army in January 1919. He had spent the last weeks of World War I in hospital recovering from gas-blindness. Hitler believed that the army had not been defeated, but had been "stabbed in the back" by the politicians who had signed the Armistice (Adolf Hitler internet).