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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You would likely have far more supporters if he didn't genocide Jews.

Well he didn't*, so...

*this is readily admitted by mainstream "Holocaust historians"

[–]SoylentCapitalist[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They have suggested the Holocaust was a result of pressures that came from both above and below and that Hitler lacked a master plan, but was the decisive force behind the Holocaust.

Your source says he was. Or, at least, the major factor influencing the events which occurred.

[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

He didn't provide a source. He provided a wikipedia entry to help you understand historiography.

[–]SoylentCapitalist[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, technically wikipedia is a source itself as it also includes sources at the bottom where the entirety of the data in the entry is derived from.