Was Adolf Hitler really a bad man?

[Ziggs]

Originally Posted by Dark Universe

Hitler thought he was strong and all that.
He was a faggot. Hopefully he's in hell. Even cartoons hate hitler.[COLOR="Silver"]

[Ari Gold]

Originally Posted by Dark Universe

Hitler thought he was strong and all that.
He was a faggot. Hopefully he's in hell. Even cartoons hate hitler.

>hates hitler because he was a bigot
>calls him a bigoted term
>mfw

[Dark Sojourn]

[laney]

Hitler was a bad guy. But he was a genius

[Placebo]

Originally Posted by Ari Gold

He made the point of stating that, while Adolf Hitler did command people under him to do terrible things, there's no evidence he ever committed any murders himself. Therefore, Adolf Hitler cannot truly be considered a mass murderer.

Not directly killing someone doesn't make one any less responsible. That's like saying people that hire a "hitman" for unjustified killing haven't done anything wrong.

Originally Posted by Ari Gold

He also pointed out that Hitler was a religious man who was very loyal to his wife, and that these aren't traits of a monster.

I don't see how some seemingly positive traits can put a glow on genocide, I'm afraid.

Originally Posted by Ari Gold

His final point was that Adolf Hitler is a guy who gets an unfair rap and that he really wasn't a truly bad person.

He's often used as an example of evil, but whether he is evil makes a difference to whether it is an unfair rap.

Originally Posted by Ari Gold

Do you think this is the case? Was Adolf Hitler a good guy?

By today's standards of ethics, yes.

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Originally Posted by laney

Hitler was a bad guy. But he was a genius

He wasn't stupid, but I wouldn't go so far as to call him a genius.
His only key ability was his influence. For everything else (such as propaganda with Goebbels) with other people with useful skills.
Also, the fact that the German people were out for revenge after The Treaty Of Versailles helped, and the fact that Germany was at possibly it's lowest point ever.

[QuadMist1638]

I agree, I don't really think that he was that bad and I'm French. I don't think that those people dying was a good thing, but when you think about it, the Jewish have been killing people since 1900 BC (estimated). Though, the Nazis had only been at it for six years! I don't understand why everyone hates him so much... He's no worse than the STRONG Jewish. Yes, I do say STRONG, because most Jews don't kill anyone anymore, but in certain countries, they still do! That's all I've had to say. That's my opinion on the whole thing. =)

[SeductivePain]

Was Hitler a good man? Was Hitler a good man you ask me? I'm from a German family that fled Germany because of Hitler honestly I would be in Germany feasting upon deli meat if wasn't Hitler running my ancestor's out of Germany! Honestly I don't even know the man but I'm glad he's dead. So yeah he was and always be a rotten piece of sh*t in my eye's. Guten tag!

[Chuck Finster]

The facilitation of murder is just as bad as murder. That's why if you hire a hitman to kill someone you too will be tried for the murder of that person.

[sarah]

I don't think that Adolf Hitler was mean, he was very psychologically troubled. (And I think one can lead an otherwise normal life while striving for world domination. Hitler is proof of that.) Had a God complex. And I don't think that what Hitler wanted was all that strange. I assume that a significant amount of people (not a lot) want what Hitler strived for, he just had the means to -try- and get it.

And people are saying he never directly killed anyone: He was in the army in WWI, he must have killed someone.

[Chuck Finster]

Originally Posted by sarah

I don't think that Adolf Hitler was mean, he was very psychologically troubled. (And I think one can lead an otherwise normal life while striving for world domination. Hitler is proof of that.) Had a God complex. And I don't think that what Hitler wanted was all that strange. I assume that a significant amount of people (not a lot) want what Hitler strived for, he just had the means to -try- and get it.

And people are saying he never directly killed anyone: He was in the army in WWI, he must have killed someone.

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When you say that what are you referring to as his "want"?

If you mean that many people want world domination then you're right (look at the USSR, The British Empire, USA) a lot of people do...

However if you think that a significant amount of people think genocide is a good idea because all other races are completely insignificant... I think you might be wrong. Maybe I'm just an optimist and I like to think that not everyone is fucking crazy.

[sarah]

Originally Posted by Chuck Finster

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When you say that what are you referring to as his "want"?

His want to wipe out all the Jewish people/pretty much every other non-Aryan person.

Originally Posted by Chuck Finster

If you mean that many people want world domination then you're right (look at the USSR, The British Empire, USA) a lot of people do...

However if you think that a significant amount of people think genocide is a good idea because all other races are completely insignificant... I think you might be wrong. Maybe I'm just an optimist and I like to think that not everyone is fucking crazy.

By significant amount I didn't mean "hordes of people" or "someone in every neighborhood" wants to wipe out an entire race. I'm not exactly sure what term to use, maybe a recognizable amount.

Edit: And I don't think many people constantly have the thought "oh hey, I should wipe out _____ people."

[Chuck Finster]

Originally Posted by sarah

By significant amount I didn't mean "hordes of people" or "someone in every neighborhood" wants to wipe out an entire race. I'm not exactly sure what term to use, maybe a recognizable amount.

Edit: And I don't think many people constantly have the thought "oh hey, I should wipe out _____ people."

I would consider "someone in every neighborhood" hordes of people... I hope no one in my neighborhood wants to take out an entire race of people. That would make me feel uncomfortable.

And Hitler probably did have the thought "I should wipe out _____ people" constantly so you can't really compare the people who might just not like a certain race of people to someone like Hitler who felt it was his obligation to rid the world of every race that wasn't Aryan.

[Hann.]

He had multiple girlfriends and I consider him a mass murderer and manipulator for making people kill.

[fatal Intentions]

Hitler was awesome, he took Germany out of economic depression, read his book (that he wrote) and read the autobiography that was written by people that knew him. we are often presented with a biased view of this liberator and martyr from the extremest Jewish right wing. but who should we believe? great German Writers and philosophers or some raggedy Jews hiding under a basement?

note that the great Jewish philosopher Spinoza had no fundamentalist idea of modern Jews and thus is exonerated from their "baggage" ,so to speak

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Originally Posted by sarah

I don't think that Adolf Hitler was mean, he was very psychologically troubled. (And I think one can lead an otherwise normal life while striving for world domination. Hitler is proof of that.) Had a God complex. And I don't think that what Hitler wanted was all that strange. I assume that a significant amount of people (not a lot) want what Hitler strived for, he just had the means to -try- and get it.

And people are saying he never directly killed anyone: He was in the army in WWI, he must have killed someone.

ha ha ha, you think that Hitler was psychologically troubled and had a God complex?

my dear, you obviously never met the great roman emperor Caligula. Now he was the embodiment of psychopathic narcissism.

Hitler on the other hand was a revolutionary who mobilized the populace.

[Chuck Finster]

"Extremist Jewish right wing"? What does that even mean?

You clearly don't know what you're talking about.

It doesn't matter how people perceived him as a person. He facilitated the murder and torture of millions of people. PLEASE explain to me how the fuck you can justify that.