If I could interview anyone…

Kelsey David, reporter

If I could interview anyone in the world, alive or dead, it would be Adolf Hitler. Brutal choice, I know, but he was a brutal man. He was responsible for the deaths of millions of Jewish Germans — amongst others like the disabled and mentally retarded — during an event known as The Holocaust. But as a ruler, he wanted what was best for his people. I want to know why, exactly, he thought killing “undesirables” would help his people. Hitler was definitely a complex man. And I wonder, too, if he was insane. Obviously he knew what he was doing — he functioned rationally enough to appear in public, to hold mass rallies, to teach his hate to his people and so on. It seems that he was sane enough to plan out the dynamics of The Holocaust, but did he know that what he did was wrong?Although he was a mass murderer, you should also keep in mind that Hitler was a charming man. Because of this cunning trait of his, he was encouraged. Everything he said and preached, people took to heart. When he ordered the Nazis to kill all those Jews, he used terms such as “Final Solution”€, and “€œsocial hygiene”€, as if it made everything sound more official. As if it lessened the harsh reality of what he was doing. So not only did he kill, he brainwashed as well. What event in his life lead him to do such horrible things? It has been said that he was rejected from an art school during his early twenties. Would things be different if he were accepted? How much of an influence did his wife, Eva Braun, have on him? Any hobbies, Chancellor Hitler? Besides mass murdering, I mean. So many questions for the man behind the swastika.