Hitler

Hitler, has had perhaps a thousand books written about him. He was a man who sold the idea of the superior race. The superior race that was blond and blued, two things of which he was neither. He was not taken serious in the 1920s because he worked both sides of what his nation and the alliances wanted to hear. He told his country that there was a certain group of people that were to blame for their problems and they advanced him through their democracy. He then told the international world what they wanted to hear and they underestimated him.
Adolf Hitler was affected by his service in WWI, but he thought it was a great thing that he saw. He, like many others else did not believe in the actual defeat of Germany in WWI. He believed it was the weak socialist government in charge at the end of war that was responsible for Germany's turmoil. Although as and artist, he wished to express his thoughts on canvas, but he soon fought out that he was a very persuasive orator. Through his oratory skills he became the leader of a group that he was originally sent to spy on. Through his new Nazi party, Hitler would climb democratically up the ladder, and eventually to rule over Germany.
Once in power, politicians from Germany believed that he would simply fall in line with the rest of the politicians. They believed that his radicalism would end. This also a mistake that the British made. I think that the French were always weary of the Germans no matter who was in power. Hitler would commit atrocities in Germany that coincided with his anti Semitic message. Hitler would then turn to Germany's former opponents and convey messages of peace, while all the time he himself knowing his full intentions of a German empire.
Hitler was a man who had his ideals before the Treaty of Versailles. He was brought to power by democracy, just to end as quickly as he could. He found his niche in oration, only to have his dream of an expanded German homeland crushed by his inability to excel in anything else. Now the fear politics of today recall his future war opponents appeasement strategy when ever possible. Hitler the enigma, was not taken seriously in the 1920s, but he is the subject now of countless scholars wondering, "how?".