Hitler's motivation (initial research)

• -       lived in Vienna (capital of Austria-Hungary)
• -       served as a soldier in ww1
• -       hated socialists and communists
• -       believed Jews were “cunning deceivers of ordinary people”[1]
• -       won Iron cross in 1918
• -       temporarily blinded by poison gas in ww1
• -       war gave him a purpose and sense of belonging
• -       never considered a good leader
• -       thought the Germans had fought and died in vain
• -       resentful
• -       locks into the psyche of German people
• -       November criminals

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[1] Tames, R., Adolf Hitler. Heinemann Library, Hong Kong. 1998.