Adolf Hitler Introduction Historically, Adolf Hitler is depicted as a madman in command. Primarily, he was a human being with an incomprehensible evil that led to an unbelievable suffering and eventual demise of millions of innocent men, women, and even children. For instance, the modern history recognizes the numerous atrocities committed by Adolf in the Final Solution, the Third Reich, as the most significant event and individual respectively. According to Liu et al. (2005), most people believe that the World War II represents the most important historical historical event throughout the globe over the last ten centuries. Individually, Adolf Hitler is depicted as the most influential person in global history over the same duration (Liu et al. (2005). For this reason, many scholars have and are continuing devoting enormous resources and efforts to analyzing the actions and personality of Adolf Hitler. Therefore, our paper provides insight insight into the criminal profile of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler’s criminal offending patterns patterns The world knows Adolf Hitler for his limitless greed to usurp power, his cruelty, ruthlessness, and more so for his lack of sympathy. Ad ditionally, we remember Adolf Hitler for his dislike for established institutions as well as his lack of ethical restraints. During the early years, Adolf contrived to assume power through n umerous veiled threats, insinuations, and accusations that were enough to make the entire world fear him. He openly openl y defied peace treaties as he embarked on invading and occupying other territories where he conquered millions of residents without the use of guns. With time, the world developed an opposition to counter c ounter his wickedness after they became tired of hiding from him and his troops. However, Adolf counte red
the opposition by initiating the most devastating and brutal war in the history of mankind. According to Ellis (2015), the World War II is described as the most violent in the history of human beings because it threatened to destroy civilization completely. Early in the career of Adolf Hitler, the world had viewed him with pleasure as most people declined to take his activities seriously. They claimed that Adolf would never last long to conquer their governments. However, most were surprised to see h is power as event after the event became successful. The prior feelings of am usement that other world leaders had expressed towards him were quickly transformed into disbelief. His crimes and attacks on others seemed unthinkable to most people because they felt that no human being could carry them out in this civilized era. For this reasons, most people regarded h im as inhuman or as a madman. mad man. For instance, the Nazi regime is said to have carried out euthanasia on all mentally-ill mentall y-ill people in special facilities throughout their country (McDonough, 2014). Additionally, other p eople were supposed to have been relocated to the Middle East where their loved ones and friends lost them upon leaving. These persons were killed by the regime and were never recovered. Of most importance is the case of the Holocaust where approximately 6 million Jews lost their lives. However, we must note that most of the atrocities that Adolf Hitler committed were done during tenure as the Chancellor and later as the unified leader of the nation. He targeted the Jews and exterminated them claiming that he was cleansing the genetic pools of Germany’s future generations. Throughout his tenure, most historians relate his actions to the troubled childhood that Adolf faced. For instance, he lost four of his six siblings in quick successions in addition to losing his cousin Geli. Additionally, Adolf was brought up b y an authoritative father who could never tolerate him asking any question. He demanded full compliance without questioning his orders despite being alcoholic. Consequently, his regime is remembered for being ruthless and
dictatorial as he gave strict orders that he ex pected everyone to follow. For this reason, we may term his offending trend as being impulsive, violent, and more so aggressive. Potential causes of Hitler’s Hitler’s behavior 1. Biological and genetic causes of Hitler’s behavior According to Vander Hook (2011), Adolf Hitler was born by Klara Polzl and Alois Hitler in Braunau am Inn on the 20th of April 1889. He was born in a family with five other siblings. He was the fourth children in the family. While still young, the Hitler family relocated to Germany. Adolf became more introverted after the d emise of his younger brother Edmund than before. However, Hitler senior failed to approve of Adolf’s sudden change in attitude attitude because the junior Hitler devoted his interests in German German nationalism and fine art. His move was opposed to his father’s choice of business, and thus this marked the beginning of their feud. Adolf Hitler lost the connection with his father who could not listen to the plea to let his young son pursue his dream. On the other hand, Adolf Hitler was a son who was entirely after pursuing his dream. He resented his father while he viewed his mother as the perfect role model for others in the societ y. Allegedly, Adolf referred to his father as having tantrums before he eventually became physically violent towards his son. Psychologists have referred to this form of parental style as an authoritarian style. According to psychologists, an authoritarian style o f parenting is often characterized by physical punishment, compliance without questioning, as well as rigidity. More so, Blitstein, et al. (2005) proposes that antisocial behavior and aggressive personality are characteristics that develop from subjection to authoritative parenting styles. All these are characteristics that can be accredited to Hitler’s case of parenting and early life. Additionally, Hitler told Hans Frank, his lawyer, regarding his father’s alcoholism where he
claims to have taken him home from the bar even at the tender age of ten years. At this time, Adolf Hitler viewed alcohol as a devil that happened to visit him during his youthful years in the form of his father. Contrariwise, Adolf is alleged to have claimed that h is mother was always afraid of the safety of his father as a result of the constant ph ysical violence he was subjected to b y his dad. His mother is said to have compensated for the affection that Adolf and his siblings lacked in their father (Rosenbaum, 2014). Edward Bloch, w ho worked as his mother's doctor, claimed that Klara Hitler was a kind, modest, and simple woman. Additionally, this Jewish doctor asserts that Klara was a retiring, submissive, and a devoted Catholic, who saw the family as the most important thing in the world. After losing her first three young ones during their infancy in subsequent weeks of the year 1878, Klara’s misery was compounded by the irresponsible, hothottempered, and alcoholic husband. Such an occurrence compounded her misery more so after the death of her fifth child, Edmund in 1900. Adolf’s father usually arrived home late and could punish them for a simple mistake when drunk. All this time, the young Adolf Hitler was watching his father mistreat them. However, Dr. Eduard Bloch claimed that Adolf Ado lf Hitler adored her mother more than anyone an yone else that he knew. In the eyes of Dr. Bloch, the most striking feature of the miserable life of young Adolf Hitler was his love for his mother. Hitler defied the common o bservation that individuals with close attachments to their mothers are likely to have longer and stable relationships during adulthood. In contrary, his anxious connection co nnection to his authoritative father took center stage as he developed his personality in subsequent years. For instance, historians have always viewed his personality traits as aggressive, tough-minded, cold, impulsive, and egocentric. For this reasons, most people referred Adolf as a troubled teena ger who mostly sought solace in the fantasy world.
The strict conditions set by his father are responsible for the development of antisocial personality disorders because psychotic persons possess a small degree of cortical cortical arousal (Blitstein, et al., 2005). 2. Psychological causes of Hitler’s behavior According to Rosenbaum (2014), children become aware of death as a phenomenon at a tender age. As such, young Adolf must have known about abou t it earlier than his peers after the death of his three older siblings. In his case, the issue mu st have become a living issue as the mother feared for his life. Such fears must have been b een communicated to the young Hitler. Subsequently, he must have tried pondering why some people died while others continued living. Eventually, his childish thinking must have resolved that he was favored in a way or that he continued living to serve a given purpose. Moreover, this thought must have intensified after the birth of his brother Edmund and as far as her mother was concerned because the only other children in the house were two step children. The birth and frequent illness that affected Edmund must have deprived Adolf of his mother’s affection to a considerable level. Hence, he must have d developed eveloped the feeling that he wanted to eliminate the competition in the same manner that he thought of his father. When on the front line of the war, Adolf Hitler must have continued contemplating why his comrades kept dying while he was always saved. Afterward, it was while in hospital after suffering from mutism and hysterical blindness that he claims to have had a vision. He claimed to have seen a way wa y of liberating Germany. We must remember that it was this vision that is accredited with encouraging him to embark on a political career. He immediately entered politics after leaving the hospital and thus his vision is also accredited with being a core influence on the ensuing course of global events. Furthermore, Vander Hook (2011) asserts that this vision
was behind his belief that he was the chosen one by Providence. He believed that it was his duty to lead the German nation to prominence. Therefore, it ranks as the most exceptional characteristic of his mature personality. Germany’s surrender in the hands of the axis ax is left Adolf Hitler bewildered and speechless. Hitler let things run smoothly whenever he felt that he would have a happy ending. He refrained from complaining about any obstacles in his way as his dealings and undertakings gave gav e him enough satisfaction. However, things took a twist whenever h e felt that Germany was on the edge of being degraded. At this time, he turned his attention to the Jews believing that they were responsible for the surrender (Toland, 2014). Besides, we cannot ignore that Adolf had sought to belittle the Austrian nation with every chance that he got. In this case, psychologists claim that that he likened the Austrian state to his father while th e rise of the German nation was a symbolic reference to her mother. Therefore, he felt good to see Austria crumble while Germany developed to signify the decline of his father and the rise of his oppressed mother. 3. Social and and environmental factors behind Hitler’s behavior Upon his father’s death in 1903, Adolf Ado lf Hitler assumed total control of his future. The death of his father allowed him to make personal decisions because his mother was more lenient compared to his authoritative father. She could listen to his views and subsequently support him. He, therefore, applied for admission to the German Academy of Fine Arts. Nonetheless, his application was unfruitful thus condemning the young Adolf to a homeless shelter in the outskirts of Vienna (Toland, 2014). He suffered a lot because he even went without food and shelter for some days. The experience hardened him further as he developed the feeling that it was him against the world. Although he was w as still recognized as an Austrian national, Adolf op ted to apply to serve in the German G erman army in 1914. His application was successful, suc cessful, and thus he joined
the army in the same year. He went on to impress the seniors in the military with his dedication to details and planning. Adolf Hitler wrote the Mein Kampf, his autobiography when he was 35 years old in 1924. In this autobiography, Hitler details his parents as being mode ls of the indigenous German values. For instance, he claims that his father was a responsible civil servant that dedicated his time and energy to the development d evelopment of the nation. Similarly, S imilarly, he describes his mother as being a devoted woman that gave everything to her household. More so, he seems more impressed with his mother when he says that she dedicated everything to the betterment of o f her children. However, historians claim that Hitler was deeply in love with his mother while he feared his father. For instance, Rosenbaum (2014) suggests that Hitler had talked to his secretary, Christi Schroeder, about his feelings towards his parents. In this case, he is alleged to have said that he did not love his father because he was always afraid to face him. Afterward, Hitler was awarded the Black Wound Badge and the Iron Cross First Class Badge for his service. However, it is imperative to note that the course of the war changed the personality of the young Adolf Hitler. It is during this period period that Hitler’s nationalistic tendencies were intensified. For instance, history shows that the surrender of Germany angered him during World War I. Subsequently, Adolf returned to the cit y of Munich where he undertook the task of being an intelligence officer. In this case, he was tasked with monitoring the actions of the German Worker’s Party. Research shows that Adolf developed h is notorious anti-Semitic anti-Semitic beliefs through his monitoring missions. Besides, it was Adolf Hitler that later assumed control of the party and eventually changed its name to the National Socialist German Worker’s party (McDonough, 2014). The party was also known as the Nazi party.
Things took a wrong turn in 1923 after Hitler and Ernst Rohm spearheaded a paramilitary operation to invade a public gathering. The invasion occurred at one of the largest beer halls in the city of Munich as they aimed at informing the German public about the Nazi revolution. Nonetheless, the invasion and subsequently attempt to overthrow the government was futile leading to the arrest, trial, and eventual incarceration of Adolf Hitler for high treason. He would go on to spend a whole year in prison. According to Vander Hook (2011), Hitler did not lose his control despite being incarcerated. For example, ex ample, he is accredited with dictating the initial volume of the famous Mein Kampf to his friend Rudolf Hess. More so, history shows that his bravery endeared endeared him to his peers in the military and the National Socialist German Worker’s party. He was consulted before they could undertake und ertake any significant task making him accumulate more power with the passing of every day. The coming of Germany’s Great Depression Depression was of paramount importance to the future of Adolf Hitler. He was cleared to run for the German presidency in 1932 although he eventually lost to Paul von Hindenberg. However, his position as the runners-up in the election enabled him to be chosen as Ger many’s many’s chancellor. It was through this post that Adolf man ipulated his way to accumulating power. He developed into a dictator as evidenced by his tendency to pass motions and policies that were both illegal and unconstitutional. Such occurrences gave Adol f Hitler immeasurable power that exceeded the power p ower of the presidency by far. Hitler and his cohort instilled fear in all other political rivals through numerous ways. Subsequently, all po litical parties that were existing in Germany were left with no choice but to disband. Resultantly, McDonough (2014) postulates that this left the National Socialist German Wo rker’s party as the only political affiliation in the entire country because Hitler and his followers punished all oppositions.
Upon the death of Hindenberg, the German cabinet opted to consolidate the position of President and Chancellor leaving Hitler with complete command of Germany. Hitler’s selfish personality continued as he used the power of his position for pursuing his ideals. For instance, instance, he promoted the anti-Jewish regime by exterminating ex terminating Jews claiming that he was cleansing the genetic pools of future generations. Consequently, Toland (2014) argues that the year 1939 saw him initiate the Holocaust where more than 6 million Jews were exterminated. His hunger for more power pushed him to invade other territories for more land. For example, his army o f 3 million soldiers attacked Russia in the early 1940s. Unluckily, his actions h ad attracted the attention of other nations including the Soviet Union, Britain, and the United States. The combined efforts of this countries weakened the military and economic position of Germany as Hitler lost his prior sound judgment. His demise occurred together with that of Eva Braun, his girlfriend, on 30th April 1945 through suicide. Type of Offender Unique issues emanating from Adolf’s personality Typically, Rosenbaum (2014) posits that Hitler was an individual with a messiah complex. Additionally, he had strong sexual perversions and masochistic tendencies that were evident since the onset of his adolescent ado lescent years. He had battled for power despite not being a native German. In Dr. Walter Langer’s eyes, the c riminal profile of Adolf Hitler shows that there was a high likelihood that he might have engaged in homosexuality. He also claimed that Hitler had numerous schizophrenic tendencies. For instance, Langer proposed that Hitler exhibited various symptoms of schizophrenia such as irrational jealousy, megalomania, h ypersensitivity, paranoia, omnipotence. Lastly, Dr. Walter Langer suggested that Adolf regularly expressed delusions of persecutions as evidenced by b y his routine paranoia and suffering from constant
hysterical dissociation. It is in his criminal profiling that Dr. Walter Langer suggested that the most probable outcome would be a situation where Hitler committed suicide. However, the central issue that arises from the criminal activities of Adolf Hitler comes from his dangerous leader disorder (Rees, 2013). Hitler is said to h ave raised the political ladder through charismatic appeals as well as by wielded immense power. In this case, Hitler is seen as a leader that ruled using three fundamental fund amental approaches. Firstly, he ordered using indifference as manifested by persecuting and murdering his rivals, citizens, members of rivals’ families, as well as through genocides. Secondly, his regime used intolerance as demonstrated by the immense censoring of the secret police, the press, as well as tolerating torture. Lastly, the use of grandiosity was a standard tool as Adolf regarded himself as a “unifying factor" of factor" of the masses. Additionally, grandiosity manifested itself by the constant over-accumulation of military power and increase of military personnel. He identified his actions with nationalism and religion while promulgating a grand plan of attacking others. Obstacles to rehabilitation for criminals such as Adolf Hitler According to Anniss (2014), the main obstacles with rehabilitating people like Adolf Hitler stems from the need to serve justice for the millions of innocent victims that die as a result of their criminal activities. For instance, Adolf Hitler killed millions of Jews believing that the Jews possessed a racial origin that made them routine criminals. Resultantly, Adolf Hitler believed that efforts to rehabilitate the Jews were futile futile and a waste of time and resources. To his eyes, the Jews were corrupt and inferior to the other races. Comparatively, most of the offenders that may be classified in the same category may include people such as Osama Bin Laden, who is remembered for masterminding the September 11 attack o n the American Twin Towers. All
criminals and terrorists in this group have been the brains behind the deaths of many innocent people, and thus they also do not deserve to live. More so, we cannot forget that some of the victims of the criminal’s atrocities are innocent children that have never harmed anyone in any an y way. Additionally, most criminals of this caliber involve individuals that are well conversant with the laws. They engage in a conscious will to ignore the rules either thinking that the y will never be caught, or they the y can bear the consequences of their actions. For instance, Adolf Hitler and others including Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Winston Churchill and Muammar Gaddafi had served in the army arm y in their respective times (Ellis, 2015). The human rights organizations, activists, and the general public are bound to mount pressure on their governments as they seek justice for the victims. For this reasons, such examples show that rehabilitating such people may not portray or denote actions that serves the best public interest. Application of criminal profiling In the year 1943, Reece (2013) claims that Dr. Walter Langer was tasked with providing a criminal profile of Adolf Hitler. Langer claimed that Hitler could not face a critical audience if he lost the war and there would an assassination attempt on him owing to his self-confidence in his military judgment. Additionally, Langer noted that Hitler would never surrender no r sign a peace agreement and thus was more likely to commit suicide if he lost. As such, this report was primarily supposed to provide a detailed view of Hitler’s state state of mind as well as the related aspects of his life and towards the society as a whole. Resultantly, the report classified the conflicting, unreliable, and contradictory materials regarding Hitler into clusters that were vital for policymakers interested in framing a counter-propaganda.
The modern world has seen religious and nationalistic leaders increase. They including Osama Bin Laden, who has carried out numerous terrorist attacks against the United States. Also, Kim Jong-Un has been an enigmatic dictator in North Korea for several years where h e has overseen several atrocities carried against the citizens. Lastly, Abu Bakr Al -Baghdadi represents the messianic chief of the ISIS in Syria S yria and other Middle East countries. These personalities are talented with the ability to motivate and influence the public through messianic visions and orations. As a result, it is more important for investigators to understand the underlying psychology of these dangerous persons to deter future criminal activities (Stefoff, (Stefoff, 2011). For this reasons, it is harmless to say that criminal profiling can help apprehend su ch criminals earlier than has been the case in the past. How Hitler’s case can be of use in a pprehending future criminals Nonetheless, criminal profiling is an essential policy that can be applied to arrest a wanted criminal sooner than any other method. It allows the investigators and profilers to elucidate the contributing personality and the causative factors that caused the development of the underlying severe psychopathology. Here, profilers interested in apprehending future criminals may use Hitler’s criminal profile to determine the motives of his crimes. The motives of a crime refer to the reasons as to why an offender opts to engage e ngage in crime (Anniss, 2014). Subsequently, the investigators and profilers must engage in linka ge analysis where they examine the wound patterns, behavioral patterns, p atterns, and crime scene elements of two or more crime scenes. Their focus is to ascertain the likelihood o f a sole criminal being behind both bo th acts. In this case, the policy is crucial because it would help in anticipating the behavior beh avior of offenders that belong to the same category as Adolf Hitler and their subsequent actions.
Policy implications from Hitler’s case Although criminal profiling is not guaranteed to work at all times, there a re numerous instances where it is bound to provide better results than other alternative methods. As such, it is essential for policy implementers to have a considerable amount of information for analysis because profiles can only provide minimal information. For example, Anniss (2014) proposes that most profiles provide information regarding age, mental characteristics and gende r. In reality, law enforcement agents in countries such as the United States have been accused a ccused of using profiling when only dealing with ethnic and racial minorities. Such practices have raised a considerable debate throughout the world because it does not treat all human beings with equality and fairness. For this reason, it is worth noting that there is a need to re-evaluate the existing system to yield optimal outcomes by observing accurac y, timeliness, and validity. Hence, it is essential to restore the legitimacy of the original intent associated with criminal profiling. How policy can be revamped in terms of prevention and rehabilitation According to Stefoff (2011), modern profilers enjoy the availability of numerous resources besides the usual evidence of the current crime. These include past cases, personal experience, interaction with reformed and incarcerated criminals, as well as previous cases. However, we must remember that criminal profiling is increasingly becoming more and more psychological. The modern world is experiencing a situation where the criminal minds and methods are changing at an alarming rate. Such an occurrence has affected the renowned profiling methods thus making criminal profiling profiling popular and essential to the criminal justice system. As such, modern theorists must support investigators and profilers in interpreting the mental defects, thought patterns, psychological traits, education levels, as well as the factors that
motivate criminals to behave in a given way. Hence, personal preferences, factors of a case, and knowledge of the investigators shall continue determining the preferred method for profiling an underlying offender. Conclusion Many analysts have made numerous attempts to understand the personality of Adolf Hitler and the reasons as to why a human being could ever be tempted to commit atrocities of such epic and grand proportions. prop ortions. Consequently, most of these attempts have sought clarifications and explanations through the non-explanatory conclusions that he was entirely evil. Alternatively, there are many people that have opted to ignore the underlying question by writing off his actions as being beyond human hum an understanding. However, it is worth noting that all this assertions are unsatisfactory and deeply unscientific. For this reason, this paper has provided insight into the potential causes of Adolf’s behavior including the social, environmental, biological, and psychological factors. More so, it provides the application of criminal profiling profiling in his case and for the future apprehension of such type of offenders. Therefore, it is inn ocuous to say that Adolf Hitler was an evil man with a profoundly destructive background that led to the development of his character.
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