Jaikai wrote:I think the Grindelwald theory is true, to be honest. It's too much of a coincidence. But I read somewhere or other that Voldemort himself posesses a lot of similarities to Hitler...
Hitler was thought to have a jewish father who deserted him (or died, can't remember) early on in life. He got rejected by a jewish girl in his teens, and so many other instances led him to hate jews. He also supposedly hated them because it was a self-denial that his father could possibly be a jew, and he couldn't stand that quality in himself, so he destroyed it in others. He was obsessed about creating a new race of Aryans, or "pure bloods". They had all the qualities and looks Hitler desired and that he believed no jew could possess. He had a group of secret police, the S.S, that murdered all those jews in secret, and carried out all of his sordid tasks. When Hitler was brought to justice, some of his secret police force were brought to the court and were killed, but some evaded justice. But the fact remained that Hitler somehow "disappeared". Some say he commited suicide, some say he pretended to be dead and was still alive, some say he was hung, I can't remember if any of them are true, but I know they were all rumours because he went missing.
Now...
Voldemort had a muggle father who abandoned him at an early age. He grew up hating muggles (once he had found out about his true parentage) but blamed his mother (this actually subliminally ties in with hitlers jewish school sweetheart). When he found out the truth about his father, he felt disgusted with himself for being part of that "filthy blood" family line, and obliterated what he hated in himself through killing his grandparents and father ect. He keeps the fact he is half-blood close to him, because he is in self-denial and ashamed about being related to a muggle, and so he went on to brew a phenominal hate for people who were everything he hates in himself. He is obsessed with creating a world full of "pure-bloods", who have all the magical skills that voldemort values and the heritige that voldemort so desires, and that he believes no muggleborns or half-bloods can posess (how wrong he is). He also has a group of "secret police", namely the Death Eaters, who murders non-pure bloods in secret (for example, Amelia Bones) and carry out tasks such as the imperius curse and tortures. When Voldemort fell from power the first time some of his followers were brought to justice in the MoM Wizengamot but some evaded justice, just like some nazi followers. And just like Hitler, he dissapeared suddenly, with some thinking he was dead, and some thinking he was just pretending, or biding his time. (In actual truth we now know he was alive, but only just, and barely surviving, but that doesn't seem to have any relation to Hitler, just interesting to point out
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How did I remember all that information
guess paying attention in History payed off.
If anyone was offended or such by anything I said, I apologize profusely, I was just making a point.
It's amazing how much people can hate people they really have something in common with. It would not shock me in the least to learn that Hitler's father was a Jew. He also hated same-gender-oriented people, and the STD's they are supposedly responsible for, and, whodathunkit, the man had an STD. Not only did he have one, he had the one disease that he railed on for pages about in Mien Kempf (I know I've messed that up, probably even got the wrong book altogether).
Voldemort's hatred for his own mother also apparently came from the fact that he considered her to be weak. One, she was for most of her life, considered to be near-squib level when it came to magic. She fell in love with a filthy muggle. And then she didn't use the power she had to keep living, even with a baby. There are exactly two factors that made her worth anything to him. She wasn't a muggle, so it was through her Voldemort got his powers. Also, and more importantly, she may have been a worthless witch, but she was a worthless witch with a direct bloodline from Salazar Slytherin himself, and Voldemort took great pride in that heritage.
A few other similarities: Not only did Hitler have his Nazis, he had the Nazi children, and they proved valuable to him. He was raising a generation of pure Aryans who would cast off the "outdated" beliefs of their parents and who underwent brainwashing of the most disgusting kind, and who would feel more loyalty for the Third Reich than they would anyone else, proving to be, in essence, tiny spies. Sound like a horrible little club started at Hogwarts for Slytherin brats? On the flip side, the majority of the Resistance Fighters in WW2 were very young. and their meetings very secretive. I think it's fair to compare them to DA.
Also, for many years, both evil guys were thwarted in what they wanted to do in life, making them more determined to get what they want, however they could, and also making them resentful of the people who stomp out their dreams. After WW1, I think I'm right in saying Hitler was prosecuted and had to serve time. In HBP, it's clear Voldemort's first career choice was not super-villian, but Hogwart's teacher. Now, I don't think he would ever have gone on to be teacher-of-the-year, seeing as he was already an evil 18-year-old, but the amount of anger he felt about that broken dream was out of proportion enough to make him overreact and take the path in life he already did.
Lastly, I know there is no possible way to ever prove this, but I wonder how much the victims' reaction to the Death Mark resembles the Jews and others who were tortured and killed in unimaginable ways and their feelings upon seeing a Swastika? I would imagine the two feelings could be VERY similar.
