Adolf Hitler – Nazi puppet of the order. History according to Assassin's Creed
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In the world of Assassin's Creed, there's no way a conflict that shapes the world in any way could happen without the order and the brotherhood, so it's no wonder they both were involved in World War 2. Adolf Hitler was only able to come to power and lead the nation with the mind-controlling Apple of Eden. Another bombshell: the person that gave it to him was Henry Ford himself, one of the founders of Abstergo Industries, in 1933. Templars wanted to bring a war so devastating that people would submit to the control of the order, which could establish a "new world order." Hitler was not the only puppet in the hands of this sinister organization: the Allied leaders Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt were also under its influence.
But it soon became apparent that even the Templars found it difficult to control the course of the devastating conflict and the actions of the Third Reich. To undo the chaos, they wanted to use a machine called Die Glocke, which would be constructed by Nikola Tesla – it was the prototype of the Animus, a machine designed to send people back in time and kill Adolf Hitler before he comes to power. The plan was thwarted by an American Assassin who murdered the Serbian inventor and commited suicide. However, the Templars managed to regain influence over Hitler towards the end of the war, when it became absolutely clear that the defeat of the Germans was only a matter of time. The order wanted to keep the leader of the Third Reich alive, as he still owned the Apple of Paradise. Führer's body was planted in the bunker, and he himself escaped. Before he could leave the city, however, he was taken down by the Assassins, and the artifact was lost for several years before it was retrieved by the Templars.
According to an alternate history provided by the Assassin's Creed series, Adolf Hitler received the Apple from the founder of the Ford Motor Company. And in this idea there is a seed of truth, for both men enjoyed mutual rapport. Ford was named in Mein Kampf as a "great man" and later as an "inspiration"; the Nazi leader reportedly even had a portrait of him on his desk. The American shared Hitler's views on the Jewish population and for years edited a newspaper, The Dearborn Independent (1919-1927), which published anti-Semitic articles. Their mutual respect was so great that during World War 2, Führer allowed the Ford truck factory in Cologne to continue to operate – despite being foreign capital. Photo: Public Domain
Of course, in reality Hitler didn't need magical mind-control at all to gain power. The Nazi Party leader used much simpler methods: he appealed to Germans' discontent with the humiliating Treaty of Versailles imposed on them after their defeat in World War 1, and with the long-lasting economic crisis and mass unemployment (in 1933, when the Weimar Republic was replaced by the Third Reich, 6 million people, or 10% of the population, were unemployed). This allowed him to win the elections, win the title of the Chancellor and quickly begin the process of turning a flawed democracy into a bloody totalitarianism.
