The Hall of Evil: Adolf Hitler

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

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Paul Kengor, Professor of Political Science at Grove City College, explains the evil force that was Adolf Hitler, the most notorious dictator of the 20th century—from the slaughter of six million Jews in Nazi death camps to the deaths of over 40 million people during World War II. This video was made possible through a generous donation from the Robert W. Plaster Foundation, part of the Robert W. Plaster Foundation Playlist: Free Enterprise Will Set You Free, which educates Americans on the virtues of our nation's founding principles and the consequences of straying from them. This video is part of a 6-part series. Click here to watch the entire Hall of Evil series. Follow PragerU on social media: Instagram X Youtube Facebook Rumble Follow Dr. Paul Kengor: Instagram: Faith and Freedom, The American Spectator X: Dr. Paul Kengor, The American Spectator Facebook: The American Spectator, Faith and Freedom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.6	There have probably been more books written about Adolf Hitler than any single person in history.
0:36.9	They all pose the same question.
0:38.6	What animated him?
0:40.0	No one has come up with a satisfactory answer.
0:42.5	Everyone knows, for example, of Hitler's obsessive hatred for Jews.
0:45.8	But no one can explain exactly where that hatred came from.
0:49.3	There's no evidence that he hated Jews as a young man or that some Jewish person cheated
0:53.4	or hurt him or his family.
0:55.4	In fact, the doctor who took care of his beloved mother was Jewish, and by most accounts,
1:00.0	Hitler never blamed him for her death. The one conclusion we can draw about this man is this.
1:05.3	He was pure evil, a demonic lunatic. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in a small Austrian town near the German border.
1:14.6	There was nothing especially foreboding about his childhood.
1:17.5	No stories of him torturing animals, no hint of the monster he would become.
1:21.8	Like his fellow mass murderer Mao Zedong, Hitler adored his mother, who by all accounts
1:27.3	doted on him. When she died when Hitler
1:29.9	was 18, he was grief-stricken. For the rest of his life, he kept a picture of her next to his bed.
1:36.3	His first ambition was to be an artist, and though he showed some talent, he didn't show enough to
1:41.1	make a career out of it. Alone and adrift, he volunteered to serve in the German army when the first World War broke out in 1914.
1:49.5	Wounded at the Battle of the Somme, he was awarded the Iron Cross for bravery.
1:54.5	In November 1918, Hitler was in a hospital recovering from a mustard gas attack when the German high command surrendered. The
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