Adolf Hitler's rise to power as Chancellor of Germany is one of the greatest political success stories in history. He was known to be an uneducated common soldier during World War I, who had failed in all his endeavors. He finally came to power in 1933, in a country devastated both socially and politically. Within five years he had brought stability and hope to his nation. They began to hail him as a leader and savior because he had eradicated unemployment, stabilized the currency, provided social legislation, and reformed the military. He also built magnificent highways and promised automobiles to every worker. If Hitler had died before World War II, he might have been remembered as the greatest and one of the most important leaders in German history. However, throughout his political career, he also ordered and committed atrocities such as ordering the extermination of the Jews and the elimination of any potential enemy in the occupied eastern territories. He was fully aware of the mass executions of Jewish civilians in these territories which make him one of the most monstrous leaders in world history. A look at his benevolent work at the beginning of his political career and his malevolence at the height and towards the end of his life lead us to see him in two perspectives; so it seemed that he was once a mentally ill person and a brilliant political leader. I refuse to see him from only one perspective as he was human and had evil in him. In the book Psychopathic God by Robert Waite, a prominent German biographer, AJP Taylor came to the conclusion that Hitler was "a neurotic character imprisoned by an overwhelming neurotic psychosis" (Waite xvi). Undoubtedly, Adolf Hitler was evil. But he can… middle of paper… or a group of people who pose a threat to his ideologies. He ordered his generals and subordinates who did not take his side on very important issues to be hanged. A careful look at Hitler's life and what he did from the beginning of his political career to the end of his life shows a mentally ill man. There were other people of his generation who experienced difficult childhoods and there were people at that age and in that period who were tortured in prison; but not everyone rose to power and committed atrocities as Adolf Hitler did. Hitler displayed some very strange physical attributes such as his infantilism and some very complicated personal qualities such as a love of decapitation. His ideologies were also very inhuman. All of this points to a man who was not mad because he was influenced by his environmental or social factors, but was not mentally stable.