Question

What was the opinion of mahatma Gandhi regarding Hitler's rule? 500 words​

Answer 1

Answer:

Gandhi writes that he resisted the request because any letter to Hitler would be “an impertinence”. “It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state.

Answer 2

Mahatma Gandhi made fervent appeals for peace in the run-up to World War II and during the course of it in numerous letters to world leaders, including one to Adolf Hitler eight days before Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Ever the man of letters, Gandhi’s missives from the time lay bare his passionate belief in non-violence, the core of his philosophy and politics, and also his views on India’s Independence. He reached out to Hitler, “the one person in the world who can prevent a war”, as well as China’s Gen Chiang Kai-Shek and also penned open letters to the Japanese, the Americans and the British.

On August 23, 1939, Gandhi wrote to “dear friend” Hitler from his ‘ashram’ in Wardha in Maharashtra, stating that people had been urging him to write to the Fuhrer for the “sake of humanity”. Gandhi writes that he resisted the request because any letter to Hitler would be “an impertinence

It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to the savage state. Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you be? Will you listen to the appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the method of war not without considerable success? Any way I anticipate your forgiveness if I have erred in writing to you (sic),” the Mahatma writes. He ends the letter with “I remain, Your sincere friend, M. K. Gandhi”.

On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, leading to the outbreak of World War II and changing the course of history. Britain, the US and the USSR were part of the Allied forces and Germany, Italy and Japan part of the Axis forces during World War II. Indian soldiers fought the war as part of the British India empire.

In his appeal to the Britons through a letter on July 3, 1940, he urges them to use nonviolent means to defeat the Nazis. While doing so, let them take whatever they want but not “your souls nor your minds”, he writes.