Do you think Hitler was that evil honestly ??

I dont think so. I think what was evil really was killing all those innocent jews in a really horrific way.

but i mean, he just had a 'grandeur' vision. He wanted to conquer countries and become powerful.

But when americans rushed to europe, it was his final breath.

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nonny · 56-60, M

Do you seriously think it’s okay to ask questions like this?

Hitler led a political party and then a whole formerly democratic country into violence, hatred and war. He dismantled the German constitution, defined one group of citizens as a “superior race” the world belonged to, and another group of their fellow human beings as vermin to be exterminated.

He governed by a calculated campaign of censorship, lies and propaganda. He eliminated all free speech and the freedom of the press as part of maintaining absolute power. 73 million people died in his global war, in which he intended to establish a race-based fascist dictatorship that would last for 1000 years. Instead, he left his country in bombed out ruins, with more than 1 in 10 of its citizens dead by 1945. The 6 million Jews, disabled people, gypsies, LGBT and others who were mass murdered in his concentration camps included nearly every member of my grandparents’ family. it took six years and the combined might and courage of much of the rest of the world to stop him.

When you treat this history casually, or minimize any part of what and who Hitler was, you make the return of the evil he represented more possible.

MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

@nonny He could not do that by himself. It was men “just following orders”.

nonny · 56-60, M

@MrBrownstone And the Nuremberg trials after the war forever decided that there is no legal defense of “just following orders” — and there are such things as crimes against humanity. That means we can and will all be held legally and morally responsible for our choices when power is seized by someone with the goals of a Hitler.

MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

@nonny His goals could only be carried out by people following orders. Meaning they wanted to do those things.

nonny · 56-60, M

@MrBrownstone What is your point? That others were evil too? Certainly they were. The question is about one man and suggests he may not have been evil. It is important to be clear that he was, and what he did, without ambiguity or distractions. There are people carrying his flag in the US again.

MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

@nonny That Hitler would not have been able to do anything on his own.

OggggO · 36-40, M

@MrBrownstone You are making a point no one disagrees with and loudly declaring it as if it’s a meaningful revelation instead of utterly obvious. Why?

MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

@OggggO If more people would use critical thinking atrocities would never happen.

OggggO · 36-40, M

@MrBrownstone That doesn’t follow.