Opinion of Adolf Hitler

[minionofmidas]

Hitler got the German economy going again at remarkable speed after the Great Depression.

Depends what indicator you're using. Real incomes remained fairly low throughout the 1933-9 era. Infant mortality and tuberculosis rates, which had fallen very quickly throughout the 1920s and slightly rebounded during the Depression, remained stable during the period. It's really only Big Capital that profitted.

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Lol.

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Uh... what? What kind of strange definition of "the German people" are you using here? Cause if the Austrians and the Bohemians count as part of it, surely the Swiss and the Volga Germans must too...

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Lol.

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Nobody as in "nobody whom the military high command would listen to", not nobody as in "nobody". The French pretty much refused to incorporate the tank into their strategic thought.

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Lmao.

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True, alas. And a good example of why there is absolutely nothing praiseworthy in that.

[minionofmidas]

Btw, how could anyone possibly name Hitler a "good leader", considering that thanks to his actions Germany were ruined in 1945?

Tbh, it was actually one of the least destroyed countries in Europe. (Excluding those who managed to remain neutral.)

[minionofmidas]

Hitler understood the threat of the Soviet Union, and had the guts to try to take it down.

Hitler did not regard the Soviet Union as a threat - he regarded as the place where he would expand Germany's living space.

Both, actually. It was a threat because it was the seat of Communists, who are by definition also Jewish; and of Jews, who are by definition also Communist.

[minionofmidas]

A threat, but not in the conventional military sense. Does that sound right to you?

[minionofmidas]

Okay, to clarify all I'm saying is that it is time we to start to recognize the positive things Hitler did, instead of always focusing on the negative.

While it is true he underestimated the USSR in 1941, it is also true that the USSR would have attacked Europe anyway had Hitler waited a few more years. I think it is safe to say Hitler saved Western civilization from Communism by striking first, when the USSR was weaker.

I doubt that the Soviet expansion would have ever been as great as it was without Hitler.

Not to mention that there wouldn't have been a threat of soviet military expansion in 1940 without Hitler...