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to Adolf Hitler, which read “It is quite clear In spite of a failure, Mahatma Gandhi wrote
that you are today the one person in the world another letter to Adolf Hitler on December 29th,
who can prevent a war which may reduce 1940. In this letter he stated how Hitler’s
humanity to the savage state. Must you pay the actions have scarred the face of humanity and
price for an object however worthy it may how Nazism is no different than British
appear to you to be? Will you listen to the Imperialism, he wrote in his letter that “If not
appeal of one who has deliberately shunned the the British, some other power will certainly
method of war not without considerable improve upon your method and beat you with
success? Anyway, I anticipate your forgiveness your own weapon. You are leaving no legacy to
if I have erred in writing to you.” His appeal your people of which they would feel proud.
was to pursue Hitler to give up his desire of They cannot take pride in a recital of a cruel
world domination, ultimate power and the deed, however skill-fully planned. I, therefore,
hunger to rule the world and instead replacing appeal to you in the name of humanity to stop
it with breaths of freedom, peace, humanity the war.” This was a potential prediction that
and ruling the hearts of people around the Germany shall not win this war. Mahatma
world by being a statue of love and peace. His Gandhi presented a solution to Hitler that to
appeal was an appeal from his heart to Hitler’s accept the intervention of an impartial
‘heart’. However, Gandhi’s letter was never international tribunal of his choice and how he
able to reach its true recipient and was stopped can give humanity which yearns for peace in
by the British and so did Gandhi’s appeal and a the world. To forget the evil thought of revenge
month later Germany attacked Poland and so as “an eye for an eye would make the whole
the dreadful Second World War started. world blind”

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways
that won't work.”- Thomas A. Edison.

British imperialism comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories
ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. On the other hand Nazism
was a racist and anti-Semitic ideology which holds that the Aryan race is superior to all other races
and that the government must actively promote the perfect race, the British used laws to control,
while Nazis used force and brutality. I still wonder, why would United Kingdom stop a letter?
Could it have had the power to change Hitler’s heart and could the words have touched his soul