Having a way with words can be the most dangerous skill any one man can possess. This can be very dangerous if you have a leader that knows what he is really talking about and trying to convey to his audience, or crowd. It is the things and techniques that Hitler did that we must be watching for so we can prevent this from repeating in history again because history always repeats itself. We are going to look at the way Kenneth Burke made Hitler look like a genius in a very unique way. I will point many things that Burke is trying to convey through “” The Rhetoric of Hitler’s “Battles””. (Burke, 32)

The German leader took his words to another level and sounded as smooth and powerful as if he was a god of some sort. Adolf Hitler knew exactly how this skill was used, the skill to move words around to sound beautiful in a fiery pit of hell. You know the story about how Adolf Hitler took over Germany and then burned and disposed of the Jews in the land, trying to cleanse the earth and create the perfect race. In “The Rhetoric of Hitler’s Battles” by Kenneth Burke, Burke tells us exactly how Adolf Hitler was able to sneak around the things people are use to hearing and went with a different approach to capture the audiences attention through his twisted way of using words (Burke, 32). Burke describes the plan Adolf Hitler used to win Germany over. In the plan Adolf Hitler uses he needed to win the people over, but would also use the government and military especially to help nudge or greatly increase the urgency of the germans “interest and cooperation” to make his goals come to life and work. Kenneth Burke in his writing didn’t focus very much on how physically Adolf Hitler took over, but what he did was focus more on the device that Hitler was using. Burke liked to describe a lot of the things that went through Hitler’s thoughts and concepts. Hitler used a lot persuasion when he would speak. He liked to take the whole bad side of Hitler’s reign at power and make him look more intelligent. Burke is wanting us to see the important of how genius of a man Hitler really was. I am trying to get you to also see how Burke is making him look great in a terrible time. There are things that you don’t really mess with. In this case Adolf Hitler attacks the religious side of the peoples lives. Burke talked in his own opinion about Hitler, in a way that Hitler was attacking a mans dignity.   

Hitler went down the road of using religion to reach his goals because of the title of superiority. Burke is describing the meaning behind the use of Hitler’s device for using the term “Projection” (Burke, 40). Burke uses the word projection as for a meaning of purification. One wants to stay clean physically and morally. Burke is using by Hitlers stand point a projection of a scapegoat. It is to give the people something to look to as a superior being, which Hitler wanted to be. You worship a higher being that watches over and protects you. Hitler was going through the church to use it to his ability of becoming their “ultimate superior leader”. Going along with the superiority that he wanted, his goal was to make the people focus on a certain peoples group, which happened to be the Jews. This made it seem like people would fight against each other. Burke once again focuses on Adolf Hitler’s phsychologial ideas and we can now see what he was going for. Burke dove into the idea of Hitler using the sciences that discovered the psychological conclusion of humans always being stressed. Burke wrote this to tell his readers to really dial down on this section for the plan Hitler was using. He points out that humans go church a lot of times to relieve a lot of the stress that is placed on our lives. We look for forgiveness and well being from a great superior. Before I mentioned that Hitler was wanting to be that leader, or god, that people looked to. We focused in on this particular part of the writing to see that when we do go to church that we look at what we are being told and making sure it is true and rich with intelligence. We need to notice this so that the government does not get in between the church and the people, or make sure our President is not throwing in his own meanings to twist the American minds around into his diabolical way, if it happened to become a reality.  Hitler was, hard to admit but, very smart. He knew exactly what he wanted to do and to achieve this plan by seeping his way into peoples religion, he said, ““a “natural born” dignity of man is stressed.”” (Burke, pg. 39) He just wanted all of the people of Germany to look to him and him only. No set strict morals like in the church, which he did start changing, which we can not let happen, to make everyone more vulnerable to his ways, and he would soon be set on the first phases of his over taking of Germany. Burke wants us to see this plan, so we can stop it early if it ever happened.

The strongest part of a country is not always the leader at hand. The strongest part of a country is the military. Hitler decided to take advantage and win over the military of Germany and this only made his ruler even more powerful. Burke made it a point to place this in the writing. He is needing us to notice if we are being watched or forced to do anything in our daily lives that are not right. Makes me think if that has something to do with our own police forces. The whole trouble of them thinking was right in their “own” eyes. On to Hitler’s process of taking of he had aid of the military by his side, so he was able to urge people to bend to his command. This is why we need to look at what Kenneth Burke is trying to point out. 

I was caught on a word that Hitler needed to have and what he wanted people to have was a scapegoat. Hitler wanted the people to have a scapegoat to use for themselves. He means that he wants the germans to look to someone to blame besides themselves which forms a type of hate in their eyes towards a certain group of people, which Hitler decided to make the Jews. By making the Jews a target group he could complete his goals much quicker and easier because he would have everyone fighting the same people which is perfect for unification. ““And the greater one’s ….. the back of “the enemy”” (Burke, pg. 40). Hitler used this way of thinking as the scapegoat. Burke was showing us that man can create his own scapegoat to make up of rah wrong doings of his past or present self conscious. Through all of your problems on your enemy. Only point fingers and instead in the writing we should take the blame of our actions or we will become a ruined country. 

Hitler had a very brilliant mind. We are to watch and see that history doesn’t repeat itself. We study Adolf Hitler’s ways and schemes so this sort of thing doesn’t happen in the United States. We look for all of these things that Hitler placed in to effect and we look to make sure our President never has that much power and makes us blind to what really is right and humane. We must make sure another form of Hitler doesn’t come to be again.
