nown, and plunge the world into historys most devastating war. Appointed chancellor in 1933, Hitler spent the next six years changing the face of Europe by coercing a brutal diplomacy. In 1939 he finally embarked into his sacred mission which was to secure by war that which he had not been able to obtain by appeasement. By 1942 his armies had created an empire that stretched from France to Russia. The combined military forces of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain were barely enough to crush the monster that Hitler had created. By the time the war was over, Germany was a total wasteland and the whole world was exhausted. Stopping Hitlers war machine had cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of American and British servicemen and British civilians as well as 20 million Soviet soldiers and private citizens.Hitler also murdered 6 million Jews which still disturbs the conscience of mankind. Adolf Hitler still stands as historys greatest example of the dark side of leadership. More than 50 years after taking his own life, he continues to cast a dark shadow over the world. His maniac and fanatical dreams were crushed beneath the ruins he brought to Berlin.(Wepman 116) The twelve years of Hitlers rule permanently changed Germany, Europe and the world. Without him the course of history would have been different. Within a few years Hitler had left Germany and Europe physically ruined and totally shattered. Among these changes :- The Cold War- A Germany split by a wall- Europe split by an Iron Curtain - A world split between hostile superpowers armed with nuclear weapons capable to blow up the planetThe cold war ended in 1989, with the collapse of the Berlin Wall as did the Iron Curtain when the Soviet bloc nations gained their independence. Germany also reunited and we no longer feel the threat of nuclear war coming from the rivalry among the superpowers. All of the above changes brought by Hitler lasted for more than 44...
