Hitler

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“The fellow is a catastrophe, but that’s no reason not to find him interesting as a personality and destiny.”

-- Thomas Mann

“There’s never been so much Hitler.”-- Norbert Frei (2005

Comments

[maadmike]

Yeah, I think that Hitler had got the best vacant place in hell if it exists, but I am certain that our leader of those times is no more respectful for the thousands of our own people had got to prisons to find only death and what do you think about your authorities had been nuking two Japanese cities, was there any real necessity? If your president just for a matter of making Stalin to fear, had gave an order to kill in flames thousands of innocent civilians and made others to suffer for all their miserable life after for what reasons, for what wrongdoings, that they were born there? Where this man had gone after his death, to the paradise for presidents...? ;)

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Yeah, the world is a nasty place, but Hitler really did distinguish himself.

[maadmike]

Don't you think it is strange that people demonize Hitler so much. It is like Hitler had killed all those people and not common Germans did it which were Christians and attended the Church. And after their defeat they were like - "Oh, that cursed Hitler, he is Demon, he is Satana!" But, I don't think that one man no matter how talented or wise or mean he could be, could be such an asshole. No, all the common Germans were very very bad to let it, do it to make this hell comes true. What is interesting is that two "Great" nations, Japan and Germany, the most industrious, successful, educated and progressive had mired themselves in the Nazism and mass murder of billions of innocent people. They were like, "Oh, there is a work to do? Oh, I again should burn Jews (or Chinese), my neighbours... - Let's go! Work is work..."

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Just because a people are not innocent, it does not mean that it is a mistake to 'demonize' the leader. The leader is critical. For example, by contrast, if people want to do great things (like create programs to help workers and the poor or to build highways and schools), you have to have a leader that can make it actually happen. A leader can play on the best part of people's character or on the people's worst part. Leaders really do deserve a lot of the credit.