Adolf Hitler was a Nazi leader who believed Jewish people were inferior to Germans and committed genocide to protect his people. He also played a big part in WWII. Mahatma(Great Soul) Gandhi was a peaceful leader of the Indian Independence movement in British-ruled India. Gandhi is mainly known for granting India freedom in a non-violent manner. Hitler and Gandhi were strong forces, with different tactics, that were ultimately doing what they thought were best for their nation.
These two leaders may have been trying to do what they thought was best, but they had very different motives. Hitler wanted to rebuild Germany as the mighty empire it deserved to be, to expand Germany’s borders, to punish the Allied governments, and to wage a war against the Jews”(Hitler and the Nazis). One of Hitler's goals was to gain back more territory that was lost in World War I for Germans(History Place -Triumph of Hitler). His second goal was to rid Germany of all Jews. Gandhi's goals were to gain independence for India from Great Britain by using non-violence. “I attach the same importance to nonviolence that I did then”(Gandhi). He also wanted to fix the problem of racial segregation(Mahatma Gandhi).
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Hitler used violence and committed genocide against Jewish people and killed millions during WWII. He used terror and the S.S., or shooting squad, to keep control(WW2 People’s War). Hitler based most of his methods off of the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini. While Gandhi used a non-violent method called Ahimsa(How Did Mahatma Gandhi Change The World). His most famous ahimsa act was marching 250 miles to collect salt. At that time period British government made Indians pay taxes for salt. Many people were influenced by Gandhi’s methods. For example, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up against segregation following the footsteps of