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Young Adolf Hitler
On this day in 1889, one of the most destructive men in history, Adolf Hitler, was born. He is shown here as he would have looked during his service in the Kaiser’s army during WW1. Wounded and temporarily blinded by a gas attack in October 1918, Hitler sat out the rest of the war in a hospital bed, and was shocked to hear of Germany’s defeat a month later. Like many German nationalists, he believed Germany had been betrayed by non-patriots, marxists and Jews. The rest of his life would be committed to restoring Germany to its former glory, establishing its dominance over the world, no matter the cost in human life or liberty. And costly it was.
Young Adolf Hitler
On this day in 1889, one of the most destructive men in history, Adolf Hitler, was born. He is shown here as he would have looked during his service in the Kaiser’s army during WW1. Wounded and temporarily blinded by a gas attack in October 1918, Hitler sat out the rest of the war in a hospital bed, and was shocked to hear of Germany’s defeat a month later. Like many German nationalists, he believed Germany had been betrayed by non-patriots, marxists and Jews. The rest of his life would be committed to restoring Germany to its former glory, establishing its dominance over the world, no matter the cost in human life or liberty. And costly it was.