On
May 1, 1945 and 2011, 66 years apart on the same date, both Adolf Hitler’s and
Osama Bin Laden’s death were announced. I will post information about comparing
the two evil leaders’ characters.
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Osama
Bin Laden (left) and Adolf Hitler (right)
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1945
– World War II: A
German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has "fallen at his
command post in the Reich Chancellery
fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". The
Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
2011
- Barack Obama
announces that Osama bin Laden,
the suspected mastermind behind the September 11
attacks has been killed
by United States
special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Due to the time difference between the United States and Pakistan, bin Laden
was actually killed on May 2.
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Adolf
Hitler (left) and Osama Bin Laden (right)
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INTERNET
SOURCE: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/explorer/articles/the-eeriest-parallel-hitler-and-osama/
By Patrick J. Kiger October 19, 2011
The
Eeriest Parallel: Hitler and Osama
Comparisons
to Hitler are a tricky and even dangerous thing, since the sheer enormity of
the Nazi dictator’s crimes against humanity—in particular, his effort to
exterminate an entire group of people, the Jews—and the virulence of his hatred
tend to diminish even the most monstrous evil done by others. Yet there’s an
inescapable, almost unsettling parallel between the leader regarded by many as
the personification of the previous century’s evil and Osama bin Laden, perhaps
the most feared and hated figure in this one. After all, the demise of bin
Laden at the hands of U.S. Navy SEAL commandos comes exactly 66 years to the
day—May 1, 1945—that a radio station in Hamburg, Germany, first announced Hitler’s
death in his Berlin bunker.
While
the news of bin Laden’s death triggered a spontaneous public celebration at
Ground Zero in New York and outside the White House in Washington, the reaction
to news of Hitler’s death apparently was more subdued. As a May
2, 1945 New York Times article describes, when word that Hitler had died
broke just before 5 p.m., pedestrians rushed to newsstands and to a bulletin
board outside the Times Tower on 43rd Street to find out the details. But the
surge soon dissipated, and trays of hastily-printed “extra” editions of
newspapers—that era’s equivalent of Twitter—found few buyers. Instead of
cheering revelers waving American flags and chanting “U-S-A!” many of the New
Yorkers interviewed by the Times in 1945 responded with shrugs of disinterest,
cynical disbelief, or even anger. As Times writer Meyer Berger noted:
Skepticism was by far the dominant reaction. There was no
cheering, only subdued gloating. The comparative few who discussed the reports
aloud seemed to find profane speech most fitting. Eight of ten persons took the
attitude: “It’s another Nazi fake,” or “They’re trying to palm off a Hitler
double.”
In
some ways, that reaction was understandable, since the precise details of
Hitler’s demise were murky—the Germans insisted he had died in battle, while
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s initial intelligence suggested Hitler had succumbed to
a stroke. Even Louis Lochner, the former chief of the Associated Press’ Berlin
bureau, published an opinion
piece in which he argued that Hitler probably was still alive and in hiding.
Even the publication of Hugh Trevor-Roper’s The
Last Days of Hitler in 1947, which detailed the dictator’s
suicide, didn’t dispel the rumors.
Six
and a half decades later, in contrast, bin Laden’s death was announced to the
world in a TV appearance by President Obama, and the Al Qaeda leader’s identity
reportedly was verified by computer analysis of photographs and analysis of his
DNA (here’s a Scientific American blog
post explaining how the ID may have been done.)
And
just as bin Laden’s death was mourned by some—the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that the
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas condemned the killing and eulogized the Al
Qaeda leaders as an “Arab holy warrior”—some outside Germany were saddened by
Hitler’s death, as well. The Associated Press reported
in 1945 that the Portuguese fascist regime declared a public day of mourning,
and in Ireland, a neutral nation with extreme antipathy toward Germany’s enemy
England, Prime Minister Eamon de Valera called the German legation to express
his condolences. (As this 2007 Sunday Times article
details, de Valera’s sympathy for the Nazis extended to offering to help an SS
officer wanted for torturing and killing French resistance fighters to escape
justice.)
But
the analogy is limited, since Hitler and Osama bin Laden had more contrasts
than similarities. Hitler was the impoverished offspring of a luckless small
farmer and beekeeper, while Osama was born into wealth, as the offspring of a
construction magnate favored by the Saudi royals. Hitler was beaten habitually
by his father, while Osama seems to have been mostly ignored by his. Hitler was
average in physical stature—five feet ten inches and 155 pounds, according to
Thomas Fuchs’ A
Concise Biography of Adolf Hitler—while Osama’s FBI wanted poster
lists him at between six feet four and six feet six inches tall. Hitler was a
mediocre student rejected by Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts, while the more
intellectually talented Osama reportedly received an undergraduate degree in
public administration from King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah in 1981. Both
men had some military experience—Hitler received a first-class Iron Cross for
bravery as a Gefreiter,
or private, in the German army in World War I, while Osama reportedly saw at
least some combat against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s, though his
role primarily was as a financier for the Afghan resistance. The Austrian-born
Hitler, for all his proclamations of German greatness, spoke German poorly and
relied more on histrionics than eloquence as a speaker. Osama, in contrast,
impressed journalist Abdel Bari Atwan with his mastery of classical Arabic,
according to The
Osama bin Laden I Know, an oral history by Peter Bergen.
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Adolf
Hitler’s Antisemitic Quotes
[PHOTO
SOURCE: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/613039]
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The war is between us and the Jews. Any
country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only itself to blame. –
Osama Bin Laden
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The
two mass murderers did have some psychological similarities, according to this survey
of studies on Hitler and various similar psychological
analyses of bin Laden written by experts in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
Both men believed they were carrying out divine missions, and both were
diagnosed from a distance as being afflicted with narcissistic personality
disorder. One psychologist who analyzed Hitler on behalf of U.S. intelligence
during World War II concluded that he exhibited “paranoia and hypersensitivity,
panic attacks, irrational jealousy, and delusions of persecution, omnipotence,
megalomania, and messiahship.” He accurately predicted that Hitler would commit
suicide when confronted with imminent defeat. The author of the survey on bin
Laden analyses says that he “shared similar states of mind with other infamous
cult figures, including 'polygamist prophet' Warren Jeffs and self-proclaimed
messiah Michael Travesser (Wayne Bent). Certainly, bin Laden saw himself as a
messiah, the savior, of his own Muslim people, and perhaps, of humanity.”
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Bin Laden and Hitler, two mass murderers .
Nevertheless, there are differences
Bin Laden und Hitler, zwei Massenmörder.
Trotzdem gibt es Unterschiede
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INTERNET
SOURCE: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/05/02/may-day-both-hitler-and-bin-laden-announced-dead-on-may-1/
May Day: Both Hitler and
bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1
May 02, 2011
On May 1, 1945, Germany announced that Adolf Hitler was dead, leading to the end of the allied campaign in Europe during World War II. That same date 66 years later, President Obama announced the death of the al-Qaeda leader and international terrorist.
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Adolf Hitler Vs Osama
Bin Laden | Duelo Mitico
[PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFfTxeE5sE0]
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(More on TIME.com: Hitler’s Last Hours)
At about 10:30 that night a Hamburg Radio announcer broadcast that Hitler had “fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany,” according to the BBC’s website. Around 11:30 on May 1, 2011, Obama interrupted nighttime television broadcasts to announce bin Laden had been killed in a military operation.
Hitler and his wife Eva Braun had actually committed suicide the evening before. A bodyguard who had escaped to British-occupied territory confirmed seeing their burned bodies to allies. Germany surrendered on May 7.
(More on TIME.com: See the top 10 defining moments of the post-9/11 era)
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ADOLF HITLER vs. OSAMA
BIN LADEN ♫
[PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8t4F77h5E]
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