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The Ambassador’s Great Mistake

Posted on January 8, 2008
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Fear, was a great tool in Hitler’s arsenal. Really he had no need to kill very many people. Everyone knew he would, and so they didn’t try to stab him in the back. When Hitler saw someone that he was even suspicious of he would simply have them killed. If they disagreed with any of his ideas he’d have them killed. If he thought they were plotting against him, you guessed it. They were killed

People outside his party he dealt with accordingly. He wasn’t stupid, and knew he couldn’t just go around killing everyone, so I would expect he had less upfront ways, not necessarily any nicer, but different.

Hitler showed clear retaliation against the Jewish people when a Jewish boy shot The Third-Secretary of Germany in Paris. The Nazis had waited for their chance and leapt at this one by destroying synagogues and shops of the Jewish people. Now how many ambassadors were assassinated after that? Hitler was a political genius and this was one of the ways he showed that fact off.

You also have to take this attack on the Jewish people in context. Anti-Semitism was at an extreme high; this act further alienated the Jewish people from the rest of Germany, and when you make one group feel like that the group that isn’t alienated feels like more of the group. Hitler also forced the group closer together; by killing off important people within the party he forced the people under them to turn to him instead.

Through all of these acts Hitler once again demonstrated his political savvy. Even though he was a murderer, racist and cheat, no one can accuse Hitler of being a bad politician. He did almost everything right. He gave the people what they wanted, demanded respect, and was a great public speaker, what else can you ask for?

I can only imagine how the person who shot the ambassador of Germany must have felt. He gave the Nazis a good excuse to lash out at the Jewish people. It goes to show you how any little thing can have a great effect.

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