Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard to determine - fights less for the negative destruction of the opposing ideology than for the positive promotion of its own. Hence its struggle is less defensive than offensive. It therefore has the advantage even in determining the goal, since this goal represents the victory of its own idea, while, conversely,it is hard to determine when the negative aim of the destruction of a hostile doctrine may be regarded as achieved and assured. For this reason alone, the philosophy's offensive will be more systematic and also more powerful than the defensive against a philosophy, since here, too, as always, the attack and not the defence makes the decision. The fight against a spiritual power with methods of violence remains defensive, however, until the sword becomes the support,the herald and disseminator, of a new spiritual doctrine.

Historian Ian Kershaw suggests that if Hitler had made such remarks they may have gone unnoticed because of the prevailing antisemitism in Vienna at that time. The most well known came from within Germany and was at least partly driven by the increasing prospect of a German defeat in the war. In 1909 he lived in a homeless Adolf Hitlerlter and by 1910 he had settled into a house for poor working men on Meldemannstraße.

In the final days of the war during the Battle of Berlin in 1945 Hitler married his long-time partner Eva Braun. After his release in 1924 Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism antisemitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ([Image] listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP); National Socialist German Workers Party).