Adolf Hitler Research Paper

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I think Hitler’s leadership and Germany’s historical experience were equally important to the Nazi dictatorship. Present in Europe long before the emergence of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, anti-Jewish prejudice was a complex phenomenon that stretched across the continent and existed among all the peoples of Europe. According to Houston Stewart Chamberlain in The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, “The entrance of the Jew into European history had, as Herder said, meant the entrance of an alien element---alien to that which Europe had already achieved.” As a result, anti-Semitic sentiment led to nationalism all across Europe as Chamberlain further states that “...the importance of each nation as a living power is proportionate to the amount