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    Compare and Contrast: Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden

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    Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 starting World War II, during which he killed millions of Jews and Allied soldiers. Osama bin Laden orchestrated the 9/11 attacks in 2001 that killed thousands in the US. Both men sought to take over the world through violence and tyranny due to their extremist ideologies - Hitler worshipped Germany while bin Laden worshipped Allah, believing violence was needed to right perceived injustices against their people. Though pursuing different goals, their desire for control and devastation resulted in massive loss of life and threats to human rights and liberties.

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    Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 starting World War II, during which he killed millions of Jews and Allied soldiers. Osama bin Laden orchestrated the 9/11 attacks in 2001 that killed thousands in the US. Both men sought to take over the world through violence and tyranny due to their extremist ideologies - Hitler worshipped Germany while bin Laden worshipped Allah, believing violence was needed to right perceived injustices against their people. Though pursuing different goals, their desire for control and devastation resulted in massive loss of life and threats to human rights and liberties.

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    Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 starting World War II, during which he killed millions of Jews and Allied soldiers. Osama bin Laden orchestrated the 9/11 attacks in 2001 that killed thousands in the US. Both men sought to take over the world through violence and tyranny due to their extremist ideologies - Hitler worshipped Germany while bin Laden worshipped Allah, believing violence was needed to right perceived injustices against their people. Though pursuing different goals, their desire for control and devastation resulted in massive loss of life and threats to human rights and liberties.

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    Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 starting World War II, during which he killed millions of Jews and Allied soldiers. Osama bin Laden orchestrated the 9/11 attacks in 2001 that killed thousands in the US. Both men sought to take over the world through violence and tyranny due to their extremist ideologies - Hitler worshipped Germany while bin Laden worshipped Allah, believing violence was needed to right perceived injustices against their people. Though pursuing different goals, their desire for control and devastation resulted in massive loss of life and threats to human rights and liberties.

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    Compare and Contrast: Osama bin Laden and Adolf Hitler

    1st Sept 1939: Adolf Hitler invades an unsuspecting Poland that started
    one of the most devastating wars in the history of the world. From this
    attack, Hitler went on to conquer other great nations in Eastern Europe.
    Hitler’s reign of terror resulted into the death of millions of unfortunate Jews
    living in Eastern Europe and lives of countless American soldiers.
    11 Sept 2001: Two planes hit the world trade center, a plane hits the
    Pentagon and a plane crashes in Pennsylvania. It is immediately thought that
    terrorism is the cause of these disasters. Later, Osama bin Laden is named
    the prime suspect in the first attack on American soil since the Pearl Harbor
    attack in World War II. This tragedy resulted in the death of 5000 American
    fire fighters, businessmen and other civilians.
    Though these events seem rather different, there are some connections
    in the main parties involved: Hitler and Osama bin Laden. These two men
    are responsible for a lot of deaths and devastations in the past 100 years, and
    they both had the same goal: to take over the world. First to understand why
    they wanted to take over the world, we must first understand their
    background.
    Hitler was born in 1889 in Braunau, Austria. Hitler’s early childhood
    was fairly normal as he received high marks in elementary school. After the
    death of his younger brother Edmund, he went from a confident, outgoing
    boy who found school easy to a morose, sullen boy who constantly battled
    his father and teachers. In 1903, Hitler’s father died and he dropped out of
    school two years later at the age of 16. Hitler moved to Vienna in 1907
    where he tried to pursue his dream of being an artist. He wanted to attend the
    Academy of Fine Arts but he failed the entrance exam twice. For thirty years
    he was a failure; then almost overnight a local celebrity and eventually the
    man around whom the world policy revolved. This sudden growth of
    popularity, led to Hitler’s tyrannical nature.
    Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In a 1998
    interview he gave his birth date as 10th March 1957. His father Muhammad
    Awad bin Laden was a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi
    Royal family. The father was a fairly devoted Muslim, very humble and
    generous. He was a very dominating personality. He insisted to keep all his
    children in one premises. He had a tough discipline and observed all the
    children with strict religious code.
    Bin Laden believes that the restoration of the Sharia law will set
    things right in the Muslim world and that all other ideologies – socialism,
    democracy and communism must be opposed. Bin Laden has consistently
    dwelt on the need for violent jihad to right what he believes are injustice
    against Muslims.
    In the final days of WW II, at the fall of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married
    his long time mistress Eva Braun. Facing capture from the Soviet forces less
    than two days later, they both committed suicide.
    Since 2001, Osama bin Laden and his organization have been major
    targets of the United States’ war against terrorism. Bin Laden and fellow al-
    Qaeda leaders are believed to be hiding near the border of Afghanistan and
    Pakistan’s federally administered tribal areas.
    Although the two historical figures posses different ideologies, the
    similarities between them including their desire to control and wanting to
    do good for their people, can and did result in massive devastation. Hitler
    worshipped Germany as Bin Laden worshipped Allah. They are evil – and
    evil as such that they wanted to destroy a race of people who simply sought
    their goals of life, freedom, liberty and happiness. These God given rights
    have been ringing in the ears of both sets of victims who have been
    terrorized by these men. While one lives only in the history books, the other
    still threatens the rights of humankind.

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