10 Compelling Arguments That Lord Voldemort Was Based On Adolf Hitler
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It should be said that Hitler was not the first German to speak ill of the Jewish people, and that an anti-Semitic sentiment was present in Germany long before Hitlers rise to power. His hatred of the Jewish people started in childhood, blaming the financial shrewdness of Jews in Austria for the poverty that his family and others like them had to endure. Vienna was a hotbed for anti-Semitism at the time, and Hitler grew up watching politicians win votes by circulating ideas of Jewish conspiracy theories and vowing to stop them. Across the border in Germany, Jews were being blamed for the loss of World War One, despite more than 100,000 of them fighting for the country. Germany was struggling to regain its footing in the post-war period, and Hitler took advantage of peoples grief, uniting them against an internal enemy that he believed was systematically destroying Europe. Similarly, Tom Riddle was not the first dark wizard to ever exist, and he certainly wasnt the first to show prejudice against Muggles. In fact, one of Hogwarts founders Salazar Slytherin was an outspoken anti-Muggle wizard who tried to convince his fellow founders to exclude Muggle-Borns from the school. When his colleagues disagreed with this proposed policy, Slytherin left the school, but not before hiding a Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets so that his dream of a pure-blood Hogwarts could be achieved after his death. Both Hitler and Voldemort took the ground work of other, perhaps slightly less evil men and used it to rally others to their own, most definitely evil causes, the results of which were devastating.
