Hitler and Roosevelt essays

Hitler and Roosevelt essays Franklin D. Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler were both very powerful men, yet at the same time they were from two different worlds and two completely different men. The one thing they did have in common was that they were the leaders of their country. Although Hilter was a sadistic dictator who almost took out a human race, while Roosevelt was a good man and an even better president. The two men are extremely different and have very different views. Adolf Hitler was born in Austria on April 20, 1889 into a poor family. He had an illegitimate father who was very poor. Roosevelt was born into a wealthy family on January 30, 1882 at Hyde Park, New York. Hitler grew up in Linz, Austria and received secondary schooling and although bad in school, left at the age of 16. He wanted to become an art student and attend the Academy of Fine Arts, but failed to get in. Roosevelt on the other hand was very good in school, he attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. Hitler made a living by painting postcards and advertisements while moving from one boarding house to another. He also led a very lonely life, with no friends or lady friends. Roosevelt was very successful, he won the senate in 1910; was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1920; not only was he successful in his career but his love life was doing well, he married Eleanor on St. Patricks Day in 1905. Hitler showed signs of his later behavior in his earlier years, he was very distant from people, hated non-Germans and of course the Jewish people, he was lonely and bitter, and ready to live in a world of fantasy to escape his failures and his poverty. Roosevelt on the other hand was a positive man with great determination, even when was struck with polio he worked hard to get stronger. The two men are very different in many aspects. Hitler left the army to join the Nazi party and went against many of the offici...