president, Hindenberg, died and the very next day Hitler ,the chancellor, was appointed president until an election could be held. This made Hitler the absolute head of Germany. This is the setting and scene which Hitler (1889-1945), Frankl (1905-1997), and Sartre (1905-1980) wrote their different opinions on life and how their lives had been affected by the conditions all around them. The Holocaust was a terrible event in history, but if we take the information and learn from the mistakes made perhaps we can keep this from happening again in the future. Three influential men wrote books on this event each with a different point of view. Hitler, in his book Mein Kampf, shows us a great demonstration of the power of persuasive writing. While very few agree with what he did, he was able to convince an entire nation that what he was saying was right. Frankl wrote about his concentration camp experience and was a tremendous witness to people that you always have a choice. He believed that life is taking responsibility to find answers to your problems. How you react to your problems is always up to you. Finally Sartre also believed that man has an active roll in his own destiny. Sartre wrote Existentialism is a Humanism, and in his book he addresses his belief that being in itself has no meaning we must assign a meaning to it. His belief in Existentialism promoted the idea that Man is condemned to be free and therefore has no one to blame but himself. Adolf Hitler, a man responsible for the sentecing and killing of nearly six million Jews, wrote in his book Mein Kampf why he believed race mattered so much. Hitler wrote, “Any crossing of two beings not at exactly the same level produces a medium between the level of the two parents.” He convinced millions of Germans that this belief was correct. Hitler was not a good man when compared to many others, but we can still learn from his leadership abilities. He unified a group of peopl...
