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[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Hitler was a great guy and more people should get to know who he really was.

Yeah, Hitler was a great guy if you want your country to be utterly destroyed by an idiot who was obsessed with a fantasy of "Jews destroying Europe".

Hitler:

  • said that Germany should never again get involved in a two front war;
  • immediately got Germany involved in a two-front war;
  • said that he wanted to destroy Communism;
  • handed eastern Europe to the Communists;
  • said that Germany should never get into a war against America;
  • immediately declared war on America after Pearl Harbour;
  • believed that he was sent by "Providence" (God) to save Germany;
  • destroyed Germany so badly that it was split into two, and only by the grace of the Americans, French and British it wasn't split into even more pieces;
  • thought that old Germanic and Norse myths were rubbish, but surrounded himself with nutcases and loons who thought that the old pagan myths were true;
  • played the Nazi leadership against each other so that they were constantly undermining each others' goals;
  • had a massive temper-tantrum on German's defeat, which was caused by his over-reaching ambition and incompetence, and ordered for Germany to be utterly destroyed, every city, every town, every farm was to be razed to the ground, every bridge destroyed so that Germans would be pushed into the Dark Ages (Albert Speer countermanded this order).

Hitler took credit for the economic improvements done by the Wiemar republic (for example, it was them, not the Nazis, who started the autobahns -- Hitler just swept in and stole the credit). Once he started running the economy, he destroyed it. For years, the only thing keeping Germany going was the wealth and literal slave labour he was able to get from the war. Had the war ended, and those sources of cheap labour and wealth had dried up, the German economy would have collapsed.

He was an idiot and a boob, he believed in pure nonsense and was incompetent at running the country. Even in his love-life he was a freak: nobody knows what, exactly, but he was so perverted that he drove the love of his life to suicide. Eva Brown must have had balls of steel to stay with him -- or maybe she shared his kink.

[–]nordmannenLegionnaire 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

What the fuck did I just read? Take your meds for Gods sake.

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What the fuck did I just read?

It's called reality. You might need a fucking big dose of it, possibly inserted up your arse with a pile driver, if you think that Hitler was anything but an unmitigated disaster for Germany and Europe.

He was a drug-addicted borderline psychotic with delusions of grandeur, a sexual pervert, an incompetent leader who micro-managed the personal equipment used by German soldiers and then made terrible strategic decisions, a boob who slept through the most critical period of the D-Day invasion and pretty much lost the war for Germany. His 1000 year Reich lasted 12 years. After WW1, no enemy soldier had stepped foot on German soil. After WW2, Germany ceased to exist except for the largesse of the victors.

He may have had charisma, he may have been able to bully the weak and frightened, but he was shit at nearly everything else.

(I'll give him this much, unlike Mussolini, who was a coward who strutted around like a cock in a barnyard, Hitler actually did have personal courage -- at least as a young man, and even if he took the coward's way out in 1945 with the Red Army knocking at his door.)

The idea that there are still people who think that Hitler the loser was "ok" and "really cool" pretty much proves that people prefer fantasies over reality.