Feeding the Flames

With a lock of hair falling over his forehead and a square little mustache on his often, somber face, Adolf Hitler seemed to the public a comical figure when he first entered politics. He was a public speaker who ranted and raved until his voice was hoarse and sweat dripped from his brow. Hitler was an evil genius. With the help of fanatic disciples and gullible masses, he profoundly changed Germany and the political face of Europe; unleashing the most terrible war in history and unprecedented genocide in which more than six million Jews died.
The Nazi machine began to take up steam and began an extensive propagandistic campaign. Among advancements promised were debt relief to desperate farmers, new jobs for the unemployed and the perfect answer to very problem plaguing Germany. But it was more than that. …