Hitler, the strongman who keeps coming back!

Introduction

Adolf Hitler was, in his day, the master of the comeback.  In a sense, he resurrected himself many times and that is the subject of a new book by Peter Ross Range called, “The Unfathomable Ascent” as pictured above.  There was a period of 13 years from 1920 to 1933 when Hitler made several quests for power over a weakened Germany.  Hitler almost failed and in fact, almost died many times during his rise to power but there were also many noted attempts on his life from 1932 to 1945.  Historians have uncovered that there were 42 attempts on his life during this time.  His survival of some of the attempts might even be described as quite miraculous.  The 2008 film Valkyrie documents the attempt on his life on the 20th July 1944.  One might say that Hitler rose again and again from the dead during all these attempts.

First close call on Hitler’s life

In his book, Peter Ross Range says, “I was stunned at the number of times Hitler’s quest for power almost came to an end and how close the world came, it seems, to avoiding the terror he caused.”  The first attempt at a power grab by Hitler came in 1923 when he staged an ill-fated coup d’etat.  The attempt was defeated very quickly but 20 men were killed.  Hitler missed being shot in a barrage of bullets by police by only 2 feet.  The man next to Hitler died.  Subsequently, Hitler, being in prison, threatened suicide and attempted a hunger strike.  He was convicted of treason and in prison, he wrote his autobiographical manifesto, Mein Kampf (My struggle).  He obtained early parole and refounded the Nazi party in 1925.

Hitler had a death wish

There was another time in which Hitler considered suicide and we know that on May 1st, 1945 he actually did go through with suicide by shooting himself in the head and swallowing a cyanide capsule at the same time in his bunker under the German Chancellery just before the Russians reached him.  Here is a pattern: Hitler threatened, attempted, and eventually succeeded at suicide.  Hitler survived at least 42 attempts on his life maybe many more that were undocumented.  There is no doubt that he came back from some remarkable situations that should have killed him.  This in my view makes him the perfect candidate to resurrect for real next time right at the end of our age in the middle of the seven year period at the 5th trumpet judgment.  The world will be astonished when they see the beast because he once was, now is not, and yet will come.¹  This is a peculiar way of saying that the beast of the future and last days will be a resurrected historical figure/dictator of history.  It has to be someone from one of the 7 Gentile kingdoms from history ranging from Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome to Nazi Germany in modern history.²  The only one who fits the bill to be resurrected is Adolf Hitler, himself a strongman who kept coming back.  A further clue is that this beast suffered a fatal head wound.  No other world ruler from one of the seven Gentile kingdoms in history has died from a fatal head wound except Hitler himself, who shot himself in the right temple with his own revolver.  This is amazing because in 1927, Hitler, when faced with the bankruptcy of the Nazi Party, said that he would rather put a bullet in his head than accept bankruptcy.  He was saved by a huge donation to the party by a rich German industrialist after Hitler delivered a four-hour monologue.  This is the character of the man.  A man with a crazy death wish who kept coming back from the dead, so to speak.

Hitler had a political resurrection

Hitler nearly didn’t even come to power at all but for a last-minute political deal that involved the cabinet at the time in 1933.  A newspaper at the time said, “It is obvious that [Hitler] is now headed downhill.”  Hitler’s Nazi Party had only received 37% of the vote and his end seemed imminent because he refused to be a part of a coalition.  Hitler was appointed chancellor in January 1933.  He needed the agreement of just one man in the end to establish total power at a meeting of the cabinet.  Elderly Alfred Hugenberg, who was to be the minister of economics and agriculture finally agreed and within 15 minutes Hitler had become chancellor.  His political resurrection was complete and the following day, Hugenberg regretted his decision saying, “Yesterday, I did the stupidest thing of my life.  I joined forces with the greatest demagogue in world history.”