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Was
Hitler Evil? An
email I recently received accused me and the rest of you writers of pandering to
the concept that Hitler was a misunderstood figure, instead of the truth that
Hitler was one of the most evil men in history. As I found that to be a highly insulting idea, I have hear-by
written this short essay as an answer to the question; was Hitler evil? First,
Hitler succeeded in welding together a party composed of dissatisfied people,
racists/Jew-haters, war heroes (Goring) and other weirdoes.
It is highly unlikely that any other member of that group – absent
Hitler – could have created that party, nor could have led it to victory in a
reasonably fair democratic election. Secondly,
Hitler either ordered, encouraged or turned a blind eye to attacks on helpless
Jews. Apart from Irving, I don’t
think that there is anyone who’s suggested that Hitler was ignorant of the
attacks. Third,
having used the SA to come to power, Hitler used the SS to destroy them,
attacking his own people. Four,
Hitler lied to the leaders of the western powers and continued to prepare for
war. In fact, he was set on war in
1938, and Chamberlain outmanovered him. Five,
Hitler ordered the invasion of nations that had done nothing to harm him, nor
had they any history of hostility towards Germany, Norway in particular.
Six,
Hitler worked hard to limit the power of his cronies.
This meant that they not only wasted time qauelling over precedence, but
there was no one who was clearly the successor to Hitler.
Seven,
facing final defeat, Hitler refused to consider a negotiated peace deal,
therefore forcing the German citizens to pay a terrible price. Contrast his actions to Napoleon’s: Nappy abdicated, Hitler
fought to the end. It is
sometimes seen as acceptable to conduct the most horrific acts on the hostile
nation; however, it is quite unacceptable to attack your own people.
Even if we accept Hitler’s claim that the Jews were not German,
thousands of non-Jewish Germans we attacked by the SS.
This policy was often directed at the army officers who were responsible
for defending Germany, and therefore demoralising them, and was therefore an act
of lunacy.
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