danpascooch said:
Hitler is a bad bad man.
PS: Try to argue against it, seriously, I want to see the look on your face as you are engulfed by a towering inferno of flame.
Deal.
I think that Hitler just wanted what was best for his nation. It is not like he woke up in the morning one day and decided to be evil. The man managed to pull his country out of the worst depression ever.
His policies may have been excessive, but you have to remember that there has always been strongly anti-semitic feelings in his native Austria, it was taught to him that the jews are the people who run the markets.
Thus, when Germany fell into the great depression he naturally blamed the people who ran the markets: the jews.
The man was not "bad" just desperate and misguided, in his eyes he was doing the work that needed to be done to make his country strong again, and if this meant that he needed to clean up the financial system, so be it.
He wanted to ensure that the next generation of Germans would be strong, smart about their money and willing to make tough decisions. He did so by trying to ensure that only the best of the best had children, by removing the Bolsheviks from teaching and public service positions and founding Germany's equivalent to the boy scouts.
Say all you want about his decisions, you have to admire a man who was able to turn so much around in such a short timeframe.
There, I have done it.
Anyone who still says he was just pure evil must learn to stop portraying people as so black and white, there are complex motivations behind every action. Think very hard on what you might do in the same situation before you denounce someone.