Adolf Hitler’s Ultimate Goal

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. Hitler was the fourth of six children and his parents were Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. As a child, Hitler argued frequently with his emotionally harsh father who, in the future, did not approve of Hitler’s interest in fine art as a career. In May of 1913, Hitler moved to Munich, Germany to avoid arrest for avoiding his military service obligation to Habsburg Austria. In Munich he entertained himself with his watercolors and sketches until World War 1, when he gave his life direction and a cause to which he could not commit himself to loyalty.

Hitler was a brave soldier during the war. He was wounded twice and was awarded several medals for his job as Corporal.

Hitler soon appeared to have been carried along by the incredibly awful, anti-semitism which is hostility to or prejudice against Jews. The political anti-semitism made its way through the higher authority soldiers during the last two years of the war.

In October of 1918, Hitler was partially blinded in a mustard gas attack near Ypres in Belgium. Shortly after, he was sent to a military hospital. News of the November 11, 1918, armistice reached him as he was recovering. The end of the war brought the threat of disbanding from the only community in which he had ever felt at home, and possible return to a civilian life where he had no direction or career prospects.

World War 1 propaganda influenced the young Hitler, who was a frontline soldier from 1914-1918. Like many, Hitler believed Germany lost the was because of enemy propaganda, and not defeat on the battlefield.

After the war, on September 16, 1919, Hitler issued his first written comment on the so-called Jewish question. He defined the Jews as a race and not a religious community, characterized the effect of a Jewish presence as a “race-tuberculosis of the peoples” and identified the initial goal of a German government to be discriminatory legislation against Jews.

“Ultimate goal must definitely be the removal of the Jews altogether.

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