During his Vienna days Adolf Hitler had faced several situations of the adverse nature and had gone through many a vicissitudes. He had seen the harsh truths of ground zero. He had learnt many lessons. One of them was never to trust anyone fully. His experience told him that most the people are driven by greed, selfishness, jealousy and the hunger for power. He noted the lessons learnt by others as told in their autobiographies.
Adolf lived in the localities inhabited by the poor and the deprived ones. He lived the life of poverty and the related miseries. He experienced what it was to be at the bottom rung of the society. In his autobiography ‘Mein Kemp’ literally meaning ‘My Struggles’ or ‘My Campaign’ Adolf Hitler describes how his experiences and observations of the situations led to the evolution of his political ideology and his mindset.
He thought that to achieve one’s objectives some originality and cruelty (callosity) was essential. The use of the crafts of telling lies, cheating, sycophancy, some emotionalism and will power were essential ingredients of the success as practised by the people of Vienna.
In the view of Adolf Hitler labour movements and Marxist theories were meaningless. He hated them.
Making speeches was Adolf Hitler’s passion which he indulged in impulsively. He spoke more like haranguing others. So, the others did not like to listen to him. And he was temperamental who would lose control over himself at the slightest provocation. Naturally the people preferred to stay away from him.
He once said in his speech that the principle of struggle was as old as the man himself. Only the strong and the capable ones survived the struggles. The spirit of struggle was the key to the advancement of the human race. The struggle was the very meaning of the existence of life, Adolf theorised.
The supreme will power and the spirit of never say die were the factors that carried Adolf Hitler to the peak at one time and influenced the events to take course in the direction of his choice.
The greatest provocation to Adolf to apply himself to serious thinking and analysing came from the Austrian members of the assembly house. Adolf reached to the conclusion that assemblies or the parliaments never made any laws that could involve serious changes or entailed consequences. They did nothing to take any real responsibilities because they were made up of compromising politicians who always played safe which meant doing nothing. Adolf thought that all of them were two timing, easy going and corrupt individuals. For him the parliaments were just made to bury the individuals merits and commitments in the cemetery of majority decisions. It was the decay of the noble principles, he opined.
He thought that corrupt politics only attracted mean type of the people. So brave and men of character despised politics. According to him, the majority politics could never take place of a particular individual. Unless an individual was not given the responsibility nothing significant could be achieved. The individual could be a sharp brain or just a man of ordinary intelligence. (The responsibility would force him to show some achievement). It has been seen that a leader never relinquishes his chair on his own. He has to be forced to step down.
In such kind of so-called democratic systems public servants are subjected to transfers too often (at the whims of the politicians). It demoralises the bureaucracy and the people resulting in ineffective handling of the national emergencies.
Adolf Hitler emphasised that if parliamentary system was put to real test at practical level it would get proven that there could be no bigger irrational system than it.
He believed that a country could not produce more than one genius. The problem was that the society was forced to depend upon low calibre intellectuals most of the time. They had little thinking power and lots of ego and arrogance.
Adolf derived these theories after studying the functioning of Vienna Assembly for two years. He hated the system so much that he never again went to see the parliamentary circus.
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