Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address Analysis

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States in the nineteenth century, whose presidency involved dealing with the impending Civil War. While in the twentieth century, Hitler was becoming great orator who spoke his way to authority and planned to recreate Germany to make it a world power once again. Both of these two leaders were greatly influential to the world, but are contradictory in every way. The speech, “Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address” by President Abraham Lincoln, was held March 4, 1861 greatly contrasts in shape and form with the “Blood Purge” speech given July 13, 1934 by Adolf Hitler. In these time periods, the United States was split as a nation whereas in Germany, the people were rebuilding power and without …show more content…
In America in the 19th century, the country was not only divided by views about the country, but in families as well; which led to fights among the people. In the book, Life in Civil War America, by Michael J. Varhola, it describes how when the Civil War started the nation was already considered to be separate in economics, customs and in philosophies. Even though, they were separated, they were connected in many ways because they grew alongside each other which was not apparent until combat began (Varhola 19). The author Amy Taylor in the book, The Divided Family In Civil War America, describes how families were split up between each side, races were treated inhumanly and it was a time where no one could be trusted (Taylor 127). While the twentieth century was filled with persecutions, impending war, and the recreation of Germany. The text, The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, by Robert G. L. Waite, the author explains how Hitler in 1934 ordered the blood purge to kill hundreds he suspected of personal disloyalty and in later he would continue to create more programs to kill off anyone he believed was unworthy (Waite 414). One of the few survivors of the German Resistance, von Schlabrendorff traces his anti-Nazi activity
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