Hitler and Churchill

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 - 30 April 1945) died age 56. Hitler is the second most influential person history has produced. The most influential was Jesus Christ.
Benito Mussolini (29 July 1883 - 28 April 1945) died age 61.
Charles de Gaulle (22 November 1890 - 9 November 1970) died age 79.
Fidel Castro (13 August 1926 - ?) is 83.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (30 January 1882 - 12 April 1945) President, 1933-1945, died age 63.
Hideki Tojo (30 December 1884 - 23 December 1948) Prime Minister of Japan, 1941-1944, was convicted and hanged for war crimes age 63.
John Curtin (8 January 1885 - 5 July 1945) Prime Minister of Australia, 1941 - 1945, Labor, died in office age 60.
Joseph Stalin (18 December 1878 - 5 March 1953) died age 74.
Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd (27 January 1859 - 4 June 1941) died age 82.
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 - 14 March 1883) died age 64.
Mao Tse Tung (26 December 1893 - 9 September 1976) died age 82. In 1966 at age 73 Mao famously swam the Yangtze River.
Vladimir Lenin (22 April 1870 - 21 January 1924) died age 53.
Winston Churchill (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) died age 90.

John Curtin, Australian wartime Prime Minister died in office, "This war will be the death of me." Of all of Australia's Prime Ministers, John Curtin would definitely not succeed in politics if he came back today. He had a high-pitched, scratchy voice. Perfectly suited to radio but not to television. He was a heavy drinker. With today's politics being more intrusive, his conservative opponents would have made mince meat out of him.

Winston Churchill lived a remarkable life but would not succeed in politics if he came back today. He was a Manic depressive (the black dog, the brilliant illness) he controlled it with alcohol. "I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." In a modern world many leaders have their finger on the button and are capable of obliterating all life on earth. Because of his mental illness he was mentally unstable and so a poor risk. The media and his political opponents would've torn him to pieces.

Churchill could succeed today as a writer, poet, songwriter, musician, artist, painter, humourist, satirist and illustrator. He wrote a 4-volume, 'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.'

Churchill and Hitler each participated in the Battle of the Somme. Churchill, aged 42, was sacked as First Lord of the Admiralty following the Suvla Bay Incident. In Australia it's known as Gallipoli. He joined the army as a Colonel. About 300 yards away in an opposing trench was a 27-year-old Corporal Adolf Hitler.

Adolf Hitler, would he succeed in politics if he came back today?
No. He could only have risen to power in a sick society as Germany was at the time.

In WW1 it would've been intolerable for the British people to have a belligerent Germany on its doorstep. There was a sound reason as to why Britain must participate in that war. WW1 does not have a clear winner.

A classic military victory is when the country is entered and occupied. The infantry must go in; the lowly, humble foot soldier will give you victory. Everything else (tanks, ships and planes) is there to help him. In WW2 the issues and belligerents were similar. WW's 1 & 2 are increasingly seen as one war and dubbed the Great European Civil War.

At the outbreak of the Great War Germany had every advantage. The war should've gone better for them. What went wrong? The German people could not rationalize it. They became demented with betrayal and disappointment. They wanted to try again, "They fluked it, we must have another go, to remove all doubt we must try again." At the same time they needed a scapegoat. It was the Final Solution, a holocaust with gas chambers and ovens for Jews, gypsies and poles.

Hitler (not his real name) had a tumultuous upbringing enduring many unpleasantries especially in connection with women. It would've driven him to homosexuality. He was illegitimately born, in a remote village to the local Jewish prostitute. Father unknown, he was raised in a large family and had only half-blood relatives. His stepfather regularly beat him. He was a brilliant boy but did poorly at school. He was friendless, never married and childless.

Hitler was an excellent, highly decorated soldier (that can be a sign of low self-esteem). He was a messenger (runner). He was promoted to corporal. He was awarded the Iron Cross. That was extraordinary for some one of such a low rank. He was not promoted further probably because he was a misfit and of his sexuality.

Homosexuality is scorned by the armed forces. A terrified soldier huddling in his foxhole, the last thing he wants is a hand thrust down his pants playing with his genitals. Australian WW1 Gallipoli hero, Simpson with the Donkey, was a homosexual predator.

During the Battle of the Somme in October 1916 Hitler was injured in the lower part of his body. When war ended in Nov 1918, he was in a military hospital, temporarily blinded by mustard gas. Churchill proposed that shiploads of food be sent to Germany to relieve our former foe of starvation. Churchill was laughed out of Parliament. It was reported in German newspapers and read to a recuperating Hitler. It helped to convince Hitler Jews caused the war and he resolved to enter politics to save his country.

Hitler was a Manic-depressive given to wild mood swings. For a number of years he lived as a homeless, dirty tramp aimlessly wandering the streets. He drifted in and out of varies shelters. He sold his body. It resolved him to become a vegetarian. "I never want to put meat in my mouth ever again."

Hitler preached a doctrine of racial supremacy. The Aryan people are a Master Race. This included the German people. It graded other races in terms of inferiority. They must be eliminated to maintain racial purity. Hitler, himself, would've had difficulty meeting the Nazi criteria for racial purity.

He ordered everything about his background destroyed. He would only have done so if he had something to hide. People in his position usually want things preserved for posterity. It's made researching his life difficult. The village he grew up in was used by the artillery for target practise and obliterated. His 'family' was eliminated.

In a belligerent, macho Nazi ethos it would've been catastrophic if his homosexuality were known. He ordered homosexuals executed probably to hide it.

After the war a Soviet pathologist (a woman) performed an autopsy on Hitler's body. The left testicle is missing! The evidence is inconclusive. Only Soviets had access to Hitler's bunker. Furthermore, his body was mutilated when it was torched. It was not absolutely certain. Is that the corpse of Adolf Hitler? The world will never know what became of him.

Hitler tried to join the army early in WW1 but was rejected. It's not known why. It may have been because of his genital deformity. It would've been noticed at the Recruiting Office. Later Germany was desperate for manpower so standards were dropped.

During the Battle of the Somme he either sustained genital injuries or his testicle failed to descend at puberty or was missing at birth. Either way, the deficiency would've contributed to all manner of psycho/sexual problems. That would've been compounded by his chaotic childhood. He was a brilliantly gifted sadist and in every respect an atypical person.

German filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), always denied having had a sexual relationship with Hitler. "No, those are false rumours." She's probably telling the truth. She played no part in the holocaust but was crucial to the system that supported it. She pioneered many filmmaking techniques. She worked to the end of her life and died, totally unrepentant, aged 101.

What would've happened if Hitler had succeeded in invading Great Britain?
History would still have been much the same. The British people, the people of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the dominions would've found that intolerable. The British people would've resisted and people elsewhere would've been spurred on to a greater effort. Hitler would've found it difficult to maintain an occupation army from across the English Channel. The war would've been longer, more difficult, ferocious and bloody. An atomic bomb would've probably been dropped on Berlin.

If he had invaded Great Britain he may or may not have still invaded Russia. If he had the war would've been shorter. If he had not the war would've been longer. The world would've still seen an 'Iron Curtain', Communism and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. You cannot kill an idea with bombs and bullets.

It'd be the same if the Kaiser won the First World War. There would've been widespread unrest eventually leading to another world war. Germany would be defeated.

Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd was left-handed. This was an era when left-handed people were considered to be possessed by the devil. Their left hand was tied behind their back forcing them to use their right hand. In 1865 as a 6 year old boy the Kaiser commenced his education under a harsh, private tutor. He was given that treatment. It left him a little demented with a saber rattling idiosyncrasy. He needed to do something great to prove himself.

The pattern of world history would've been the same. Quit simply we were the goodies and they were the baddies. Good always triumphs over bad. Occasionally the struggle is long and difficult but man's basic decency always come to the fore.

The need for a high medical standard (physical and mental) in the armed forces is obvious, especially in an atomic age. In the light of modern psychological research, psychological profiling and screening; Lawrence of Arabia, Churchill, Hitler, Field Marshall Montgomery, RAF Wing Commander Guy P. Gibson who commanded the Dam Busters and U.S. Commander Gregory "Pappy" Boyington who commanded the "Black Sheep" would never have even gotten into the armed forces because they were mentally unstable and so a poor risk. Australia's Nancy Wake (the white mouse) would not have been accepted by the British secret service.

If today's child protection laws existed then (1889), would history have been different?
At the time it was acceptable for parents to thrash their children. Hitler would have been seen as a child at risk and removed from an abusive situation. However, history would've still been similar. The law of action and reaction, cause and effect still come into play causing a sequel to our behaviour and to historic events.

Hitler was a rare and unique personality. World affaires after the Great War were also rare and unique. It's hard to say how many Hitler personalities the world has produced but the time and place were not right for them. After all, many psychos in prison are not stupid people - crazy but not stupid. In an increasingly complex world there will be more such people.

The world would have still seen the Great War, the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. We then get to the rise of Nazism in Europe, especially Germany. If it were not Hitler then it would have been some one else. Any number of people could have done it although not as effectively. The devil is in the detail. The pattern of world history would've been the same.

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