Hitler


 * Hitler the Tyrant**

**(1889-1945)**  **Hitler and Germany** Minister of Germany and Stalin Signing the Non-Aggression Pact **Mr. Frederick** > (p.28)
 * Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933. (3)
 * "Hitler's style of ruling was deliberately unconventional. He saw himself as the country's messiah whose task was to Guide the German people to its new destiny."(3)
 * "The prospect of any kind of alliance, or even state of non-aggression, between Stalin and Hitler was seriously worrying to Great Britain, which was struggling for survival in a lonely war against Germany on the Western Front through most of 1940 and 1941." (3)
 * "In late July 1940 he announced to his military commanders that, despite the non-aggression pact, he would order an attack on the Soviet Union" (3)
 * On June 22, 1941, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, launching a massive surprise attack into Soviet territory and starting the war on the Eastern Front. (1)
 * Operation Barbarossa was the largest German military operation of World War II. (1)
 * The war's bloodiest fighting occurred on the Eastern Front, "with millions of German and Soviet soldiers losing their lives in a desperate struggle to finish off their opponents." (2)
 * After holding onto the strategically significant city of Stalingrad through the winter of 1942-43, the Soviet Red Army began pushing the Germans slowly back toward the west. (3)
 * The tide of the war had turned, but it would take another two years of brutal combat to bring it to an end. (2)
 * The pact allowed Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany – which had been bitter enemies up to that time – to divvy up Eastern Europe into respective spheres of influence. (3)
 * Mr. Frederick, the owner of Pinchfield, was also a person of authority.
 * From the start, he is described as “a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains” (p 26).
 * Mr. Frederick was worried about the Rebellion on Mr. Jones’s farm. He suspects that such revolutionary ideas may spread to his own animals. (p. 27)
 * He thus makes sure to spread rumors that the “animals there practiced cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common” (p.27)
 * Relations with Mr. Frederick continue to be hostile for much of the story, and Squealer is supposed to spread the rumor that Snowball is conspiring against Animal Farm with Frederick.
 * He has a pile of timber that he needs to sell, and after promising it to Pilkington, he suddenly switches and decides to sell it to Frederick. (P. 65)
 * ===== "Without any prompting they confessed that they had been secretly in touch with Snowball ever since his expulsion, that they had collaborated with him in destroying the windmill, and that they had entered into an agreement with him to hand over Animal Farm to Mr. Frederick." (58) =====
 * ===== "At the same time there were renewed rumors that Frederick and his men were plotting to attack Animal Farm and to destroy the windmill, the building of which had aroused furious jealousy in him." (66) =====
 * "Moreover, terrible stories were leaking out from Pinchfield about the cruelties that Frederick practiced upon his animals. He had flogged an old horse to death, he starved the cows, he had killed a dog by throwing it into the furnace, he amused himself in the evenings by making cocks fight with splinters of razor-blade tied to their spurs." (66)
 * "Throughout the whole period of his seeming friendship with Pilkington, Napoleon had really been in secret agreement with Frederick." (68)

**Hitler vs. Mr. Frederick**




 * = Mr.Frederick = || = Adolf Hitler = ||
 * Worried that the "revolutionary ideas" will spread to his animals, so he spreads rumors about the animals || Hitler does not want the Germans to know of his ideas to kill off the Jewish race, so he tells the Germans they are horrible people (3) ||
 * Tricks Napoleon by forging bank notes for the timber. || Hitler breaks the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact he made with Joseph Stalin. (1) ||
 * “flogged an old horse to death.” (p.66) || Hitler had a plan to kill the entire Jewish race by any means. The horse represents the Jewish people. (2) ||
 * The Invasion of Animal Farm || Invasion of the Soviet Union conducted by the Nazis ||

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