One of the most destructive and arrogant people in history was Adolf Hitler. The destruction he and his regime brought to humanity has rarely been equalled. In reality the Holocaust was a terrible horror, but in Hitler's mind it was only a brushstroke of the masterpiece he believed he was creating. Hitler believed that the Aryan race was superior to all others and that it was natural, and not cruel, for the superior race to show no humanity towards the inferior (296). This prejudicial belief predominated in Hitler's thinking. In his essay On Nation and Race, the assumption that Aryans are superior to everyone else creates a type of logical fallacy called “Begging the Question” (Rottenberg 291). Hitler not only assumes that Aryans are superior to all other races, but that Germans believe it too. He assumes that the question of racial superiority has already been answered. According to Annette T. Rottenberg's The Structure of Argument, "if [a] writer makes a claim that presupposes that the argued question itself has already been proven, [that] writer is guilty of asking the question" (291). Hitler proudly states, “All human culture, all the achievements of art, science, and technology that we see before us today, are almost exclusively the creative product of the Aryan” (300). This statement, which he presents as if it were fact, is certainly not true. He uses this mistake to further his agenda. He wants to eliminate the competition, especially the Jews, so that the Aryan race can dominate Germany and ultimately the world. Hitler makes another statement that raises the question: “Nature subjects the weaker part to such severe living conditions that only for them the number is limit… middle of paper… of nature. Indeed, this belief, which raises the question, is what predominates in his thinking. Hitler uses fallacies in his arguments such as; non sequiturs, ad populum and incorrect appeals to emotions. All these are simply apparatuses that a terribly arrogant and crazy man uses to acquire the absolute power that he has actually achieved. Throughout his essay, however, we can see that Hitler's thinking is dominated by a fallacious belief that begs the question: what evidence do you have that Aryans are superior to other peoples? Works CitedHitler, Adolf. “On Nation and Race.” The structure of the argument. Rottenberg, Annette T., and Donna Haisty. Winchell. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009. Print.Rottenberg, Annette T. and Donna Haisty. Winchell. The structure of the argument. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009. Print.