Originally posted by cabby:
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God save us from people like this.....
BTW, i don't care if "MK" is the work of a "genius" or not. Anyone who initiated a World War, murdered millions, "sacrificed" his nation and his people to untold loss of life and property, was a hideous military tactician, can ultimately be considered only one thing:
An idiot.
Cabby
I concur, god save us from guys like Hitler. But if your mind cant allow that even the darkest, most evil man you can imagine (and Stalin was even worse in that regard) was a genius on his own then I have to say that I'm sorry for you, because closes your mind to many things.
I, By myself, find Adolf Hitler one of the most fascinating personalities in History. How a man can go all the way up from being a homeless poor man in Austria, to be the instigator of the biggest massacre and war in history. How?. Why?.
That he was not psiquically stable is well known, he was NOT normal. Period. But even in his abnormality there was charm.
Ask the people who knew Hitler in person (not his generals <G> ), and they will tell you that he was simply magnetic. He had a very charming presence, he knew how to cautivate the one talking with him. He was, literally, one of those men who made his interlocutor to think that it was night in the middle of the day, if Hitler told him so.
And his public speeches. Dude, I have no idea of German, but seeing his speeches you can feel that there was electricity on the air each time he talked to the masses. There is sheer POWER in each word he said.
All in all, it is easy and hard,at the same time, to explain how did he reach the power on Germany.
Hard, because bassically Hitler was an incompetent for everything else: he knew to work in nothing but painting, and he was mediocre at that. You see the 1919 Hitler and you simply think he was a lost soul and that he would be an obscure man for the rest of his life.
Easy, because the ways used were completely right to reach where he did. He had the right message to deliver in the proper moment and situation.
-He called for national pride when Germany's pride was down the floor
-He called for work for everyone when 50% of the people was without work, and for cutting down inflation, while bread was at a cost of ONE MILLION REICHSMARKS THE UNIT
-He used a minority as the one to be blamed (dont fool yourselfs, dudes, We ALL are racist in a sense, some more some less. Some of us have problems with the black guys, some of us have problems with the asiatic ones, some of us have problems with the Gypsies...etc. Simply because we are different, and some of their customs may seem bad, and even we feel repulse at some of them. Of course none of us is going to send a jew to be gassed, nor a black man to be burnt alive KKK-alike, but we all have a minority we like less than us.).
-He used one of the strongest messages for the human kind. Hate. Many of you have never been there, I've been. When you are treated bad by almost everyone around you you tend to get agressive and you tend to do things not normal in a normal guy. Been there, tempted to do that -long story, off topic here, wich happened back when I was 13-.
Germany was a nation beaten by Versalles, and violence was on the streets since the WWI. Hate was a escape way. Just remember that hate was on the streets since 1919 up to 1945. First with the anti-bolshevik groups, then with the paramilitar groups, then with the Nazi SA and SD...
Simply said, that message was the most appeasing for a nation whose pride was beaten down, and wich people was morally routed.
And Hitler was there, with the right message, the right collaborators and the right charm to do that thing work.
I think that the man was not evil by himself, but he was mad. His actions are evil, and he favored evil demons under his command (Almost all the SS chiefs were worse than him...Himmler, Heidrich...). But I think that in his madness he genuinelly though he was right.
Evil or mad, right or wrong, the guy was brilliant on his own. And fascinating.
BTW I'll repeat it because I'm sure someone will think wrong things reading this. I'm deeply anti-nazi and I HATE extremists (right or leftists). My family suffered a lot under Franco's rule (familiars of me dissapeared).
and now that I've let that clear... flame on.
