Question:
Comparing King Leopold II and Hitler?
Sammy
2012-01-02 14:40:25 UTC
For a school project I had to read King Leopold's Ghost and one of the questions I need to answer about the book is "Did the mass killings by Leopold II and Hitler arise from similar psychological, social, political, economic, and cultural sources?"

I don't really know anything about the circumstances before Hitler took power and why, let alone if they were similar to the reasons and circumstances surrounding Leopold.

So even if you don't know much about Leopold can someone please tell me about Hitler and:
-why he killed so many people (for power, wealth, etc)
-if people liked him before he was exposed
-did he have a lot of power within the government before he compeletely took over
-economy (also if you know what the economy was like in Belgium?)
-what type of people did he kill and how were the people viewed (uncivilized, lazy, etc.)
Three answers:
ArianaDM
2012-01-02 16:47:26 UTC
The situation was completely different, Hitler persecuted the Jews because he hated them, King Leopold II of the Belgians thought that the labor of the masses was one of the most efficient way of working of course, not paying them would diminish the costs. Something he concluded after he had seen how the Egyptians worked on the Suez Canal, a project he was preparing to take over the moment De Lesseps gave up.

Whereas the German economy lay in ruins, the Belgian economy was thriving and Leopold's idea for a colony was one that was opposed by the Liberal Governments he had to deal with. Liberalism of that time did not allow colonization because it was seen as a diminishing of liberty. Not that the Catholic Governments were any better though, they complained about every large project.

When Hitler took office he had a complete, democratic mind you, majority. A majority of people who did what he asked. So when he took office as Chancellor he had only to deal with the president, Ludendorff. But he posed no great threat anymore and died in 1937. With his majority Hitler could abolish the Constitution.

The Second King of the Belgians was tied to the Constitution, in Belgium, as King-Sovereign of the Congo Free State he was free to do whatever he pleased, he had build the government himself.

Leopold began his expedition because he wanted his Kingdom to gain prestige (and some more money for his personal case too, he liked pretty buildings, beautiful women and much food.

Hitler wanted revenge for WWI and thought that the Jews whom he hated since his stay in Vienna, had caused Germany to lose WWI.

Leopold's actions killed people who happened to live there and were seen as uncivilized. Hitler killed people because who they were.
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2012-01-02 14:44:50 UTC
http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=f&oq=Why+Hitler+killed&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ADFA_enCA457CA457&q=Why+Hitler+killed&gs_upl=0l0l0l5660lllllllllll0



He practised the oldest trick going ( which is now going on in Syria), no infor to the people. The everyday German though he was wonderful because they had no info on the Holocaust etc.



The Jewish people were savvy business men. Most of the booming business were owned by them. Whe they were gathered up their business and home were taken over by Germans.
?
2016-10-06 07:12:07 UTC
i think of it grew to become into Joseph Stalin------for the duration of international conflict 2 he killed alot of his very own human beings and additionally for the period of the liberation of the death camps of Germany the communists took American prisoners of conflict to siberia and that they have been in no way heard from returned. the count selection grew to become into predicted to be around 3000 human beings. God Bless Our Brothers. He grew to become into the harshest and the rest did not have any kindnest in them.


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