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Originally Posted by Balalsubturfyooj
Brilliant ? ... no just excepted and found his way in to a government position using the excuse that "his" people were of a master race that had its roots in blood lines that reached back like 1000s of years... he was trying to prove this.... its actually a very convoluted and controlling methodology that he and those who he based his philosophies from... but to call him brilliant is slapping those families who lost family on both sides of the war because of this man.
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You need to read Hitler's memoirs and private statements. Honestly, compared to what is known history they shed a completely different light on him. Most of the real crazy people were those around him, Himmler, etc. Hitler, whilst irrational, had a very understandable, even if completely objectionable, logic to everything he did, and in the end I've no doubt it would of lead to a lot of advances and good, but at a terrible cost. Take for instance medical experiments on humans, much of modern science was based on what Nazi scientists discovered, but of course it's morally and ethically objectionable, Hitler though saw it as a means to a better end (which it may have been) but obviously by our standards we still wouldn't consider it justifiable.
Truth is though, he didn't, and he states this in a lot of his private works, truly believe Germans were superior to all others, or that modern day Italy was a direct continuation of the Roman empire, or in Christianity, or a lot of the stuff he said or promoted. It was again just a means to and end. He said many times in private for instance that he wished Germany had inherited Islam over Christianity, despite being a "Christian" himself. Personally I wouldn't call him unbelievably brilliant, but I would call him and a lot of his policies very interesting. I think making him taboo is idiotic, just as making a lot of things anyway connected with the Nazi's completely taboo as well. Stuff like eugenics for instant, are almost completely untouchable, but not all eugenics involves sterilizing the poor or whatever image comes up in your head. In my opinion all this stuff should be open for debate, consideration and discussed.