Mother-in-law -----woman Hitler

Very recently I happened to read a book written by
a 18 year old young girl Tanvi Rathi,the topic being similar atrocities committed during holocaust.
We have read tens of books about the atrocities committed ,murder of infants ,youngsters,adults and senior citizens.The author has taken pains
to paint a moving picture of the holocaust,
Hitler is the dictator of Germany, the perpetrator of harsh Nazi practices, Sadistic. Cruel. Evil.
I can't but be reminded of the other side of Hitler.
A few years back Tamil daily Ananda Vikatan released a book " Hitlerin maru pakkam" containing details unheard about Hitler.
AS per the book Hitler has been portrayed as sincere, hard working patriot with strong will power and determination.Many students and political leaders have expressed desire to have a leader like Hitler.
Well, the Hitler we know is largely what the United States would like us to believe.
Here is what we never knew:

Adolf Hitler strengthened the economy and put an end to unemployment.He set up a public banking system. Everything was done with public money – construction of new roads, bridges, dams, canals, port facilities, and the repair of public and private buildings.

The unemployment problem had been solved within only two years, and Germany was back on its feet,

As Hitler said, “For every Mark issued, we required the equivalent of a Mark’s worth of work done, or goods produced.”

Poor families were helped by using financial incentives, and family allowances, marriage loans and child subsidies were provided equally to each and every segment of society.

The Nazi’s were also the first to create environmental protection laws in history.
Mahatma Gandhi 's letter dated 23.7.39 to Hitler is placed below
"Dear Friend,,Friends have been urging me to write
to you for the sake of humanity.
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 sevage state.
Must you pay that price for an object however worthy it may appear to you to be?Will you listen to the appeal of onewho has deliberately shunned the method
of war,not without considerable success?Anyway I anticipate your forgiveness
if I have erred in writing to you.
I remain,
your sincere friend,M.K. Gandhi."
I’m unable to estimate how thrilling all this positivity about Hitler and the Nazi regime is, but sure not enough to erase all the existing notions.

All that Hitler wanted was to become a Painter.

He had applied to the Academy of Fine Arts, twice to join to fullfill his ambition.
But he was rejected.
Had the Academy gone easy on Hitler's Admission who knows the World would not have known him.
Possibly ended up as a third rate Painter.
The demon Hitler would not have risen.
Though a failed Painter he was gifted with the power of Oration.
In fact it was the Versailles Treaty of World War I that in a way created the demon Hitler.
The terms of the Treaty imposed severe curbs on the loser Germany and Germany was imposed War Reparations of more than £ 6 Billion.
Hitler wanted these Reparations stopped and restore Germany's pride.
Hitler a powerful Orator exploited these adverse terms to raise in the Nazi Party which he took over as the most admired Charismatic leader and later the Chancellor.

The suffering War torn Country lapped up what Hitler pronounced and seeds of hatred sown became deadly and deep rooted.
This is how Hitler killed, have the blood of 6 million Jews.
A tramp in the streets of Vienna who had ambition only to become a Painter was made despicable demon.
Now take the anagram of Hitler ' MOTHER-INLAW '
Almost every mother of a boy is being awardeda ‘life time achievement Award’and a grand title
” MOTHER-IN-LAW”,an anagram of ‘WOMAN

HITLER’,a personification of torture.This award comes to one and all without craving for it.It is strangehow a woman who is elevated to the status of
Goddess on the birth of a baby is degraded to this aweful position soon after an auspicious event of her son’s wedding.This is a universal phenomenon.Indians
need not be singularly ashamed of this.

While there are feuds between many relatives in the family,MIL/DIL conflict alone is magnified. Even a few months back we had a mail from suffering daughter-in-law.

In 1930s when education was the remotest achievement for women,the conflict between MIL and DIL was limited to the household chores.In an essentially male dominant society,the boy’s mother reigned supreme and held sway over the entire house.The new beautiful virus
namely,the DIL created a disorder called DIL Syndrome permeating every nerve of MIL.As the demon Hiranyaka Shipu always thought about Sri Hari,the MIL could not help thinking about her DIL and casting blasphemy on her for ever.

After 1950,when educated girls became DIL,the conflict deepened and both the’ in-laws’ were in their best ‘form’ ready to react instantly.

After 1960.MIL who had since been bosses,seemed to be losing groundsThey were assigned the role of cooks and baby sitters.

The all supreme MIL is just thrown from pillar to post and she has to be just like an’ ambulance’ ready to help her sons and daughters at needy hours.With age advancing and other ailments approaching fast,she is
subject to untold sufferings and tension.

Day and night,happiness and sorrow do come in turns.Time and tide wait for nobody.
Sooner the DIL are entitled to receive the glorious award.Withone or two children staying abroad,these modern MIL have to shunt between USA
and India taking a dual role of baby sitters in US and custodian of their NRI funds in India.

Single child norm ,which was considered a blessing earlier,has turned out to be a curse to both the ‘ in-laws’.
The modern MILs have taken a challenge to prove themselves as sweet,soft ‘ideal MIL’of
the highest order.But alas! They are in great distress.

The plight of the present generation MIL is really pitiable.They suffer in silence

It has to be realized that high education and enviable financial status cannot solve such conflicts.The only relief to all the syndromes is found in the capsule’C in A’-Change in Attitude-which can be achieved
only through constant practice with determination.

Even the atrocities committed by Hitler have been pardoned and many are prepared to see the other side of Hitler.
Why should the feud between DIL and MIL continue for ever?
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