If I ever had a time machine the first place I go is Germany in the late 1930s so I can see the real story. I tend to think Hitler was in fact a bit nuts but they make real crazies like Stalin or Pol Pot seem like lovely people in comparison to how they describe Hitler.
He'd be the least evil one. He still had evil ideas, but everyone else was way worse. In fact, they considered him chump change and constantly attacked each other. That's how he won, they destroyed each other until he was in charge. Then all the wackjobs still alive joined behind him, and had a power struggle to take over. Hitler didn't seem to care so long as he had power.
Most Germans wanted a united German people, a thing promoted since the 1860's. They created camps for people they intended to send away those people somewhere else. Several countries have stories of being asked how long it would take to move people out of the country. The military would wait and then invade.
So many people refused and ended up in camps that it became a real problem. They had no where else to be placed and winter was killing them.
Hitler seems fundamentally like the revolutionary he started as. Radical, energetic, grandiose, and erratic. But he did seem loyal to his country as well.
Yeah, not one of the Hitler fanboys, but he does seem less evil than many of the other ones during that era. Also seemed to care about his own people - or his definition thereof - more than the others.
I'm no expert, but I know all the others either didn't care or wanted their own people killed for political ends. I don't recall hearing about Hitler wanting dead Nazis but, again, not up on all my history either. I wouldn't be shocked if there were examples. All the Hitler/Nazi atrocities get overshadowed by the big, attention seeking ones, so I'm sure there were smaller examples most people have never heard of.
If I ever had a time machine the first place I go is Germany in the late 1930s so I can see the real story. I tend to think Hitler was in fact a bit nuts but they make real crazies like Stalin or Pol Pot seem like lovely people in comparison to how they describe Hitler.
He'd be the least evil one. He still had evil ideas, but everyone else was way worse. In fact, they considered him chump change and constantly attacked each other. That's how he won, they destroyed each other until he was in charge. Then all the wackjobs still alive joined behind him, and had a power struggle to take over. Hitler didn't seem to care so long as he had power.
Most Germans wanted a united German people, a thing promoted since the 1860's. They created camps for people they intended to send away those people somewhere else. Several countries have stories of being asked how long it would take to move people out of the country. The military would wait and then invade.
So many people refused and ended up in camps that it became a real problem. They had no where else to be placed and winter was killing them.
The rest you probably know.
It would be funny if high tier tiny hats funded and supported hitler. They sacrificed the lower tier tiny hats for some crazy plan.
Hitler seems fundamentally like the revolutionary he started as. Radical, energetic, grandiose, and erratic. But he did seem loyal to his country as well.
Yeah, not one of the Hitler fanboys, but he does seem less evil than many of the other ones during that era. Also seemed to care about his own people - or his definition thereof - more than the others.
I'm no expert, but I know all the others either didn't care or wanted their own people killed for political ends. I don't recall hearing about Hitler wanting dead Nazis but, again, not up on all my history either. I wouldn't be shocked if there were examples. All the Hitler/Nazi atrocities get overshadowed by the big, attention seeking ones, so I'm sure there were smaller examples most people have never heard of.