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There is a general and unspoken resistance amongst casual historians in assigning any merit to any of Adolf Hitler's ideas or concepts. It's as if he has to be

There is a general and unspoken resistance amongst casual historians in assigning any merit to any of Adolf Hitler's ideas or concepts. It's as if he has to be kept firmly bounded in the 'Crazy Genocidal Idiot' box in case any grudging recognition of merit would immediately flip him into public acceptance. But I don't think it's a healthy approach - it's not how history works. Oddly Josef Stalin doesn't seem to get boxed-in like that.

bolololo1 9y ago
In my opinion Hitler needs to be kept in that box on the basis on how he killed millions of people. That's how we should remember him and the German Nazis forever. On the other hand Stalin should join him as he killed even more people - see Ukrainian Great Famine, Gulags, etc!
- kaybe 9y ago
  The thing is, he was only human. One of the important lessons of that time is that it does not need a special breed of fanatical homicidal maniacs for what happened, it just needs humans. We're not fundamentally different.
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ahartmetz 9y ago
I don't know how commonly known that is, but Hitler was a bohemian and failed artist before World War 1. While his paintings were quite bland and uninspired, he could draw and paint. There are occasional jokes that art academies shouldn't be too strict in who they accept - if the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna had accepted him, it would have saved the world a lot of trouble...
- rat87 9y ago
  There's an Israeli skit related to that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f66h1hk5yco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f66h1hk5yco
gaius 9y ago
Oddly Josef Stalin doesn't seem to get boxed-in like that Nor do Mao, Pol Pot, Castro... they appear on t-shirts...
- mikestew 9y ago
  Though in supreme disagreement, I could see the case for Mao or Castro on a shirt. But who the hell is going to put Pol Pot on a t-shirt and wear it?
- 52-6F-62 9y ago
  So does Hitler in some parts of the world. https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/xd5bdd/nazis-chic-is-asias-offensive-fashion-craze-456 https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/xd5bdd/nazis-chic-is-asia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_imagery_in_Thailand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_imagery_in_Thailand https://www.famouslogos.net/images/hitler-fried-chicken-logo.jpg https://www.famouslogos.net/images/hitler-fried-chicken-logo...

bolololo1 9y ago

In my opinion Hitler needs to be kept in that box on the basis on how he killed millions of people. That's how we should remember him and the German Nazis forever. On the other hand Stalin should join him as he killed even more people - see Ukrainian Great Famine, Gulags, etc!

kaybe 9y ago
The thing is, he was only human. One of the important lessons of that time is that it does not need a special breed of fanatical homicidal maniacs for what happened, it just needs humans. We're not fundamentally different.
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ahartmetz 9y ago

I don't know how commonly known that is, but Hitler was a bohemian and failed artist before World War 1. While his paintings were quite bland and uninspired, he could draw and paint. There are occasional jokes that art academies shouldn't be too strict in who they accept - if the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna had accepted him, it would have saved the world a lot of trouble...

rat87 9y ago
There's an Israeli skit related to that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f66h1hk5yco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f66h1hk5yco

gaius 9y ago

Oddly Josef Stalin doesn't seem to get boxed-in like that Nor do Mao, Pol Pot, Castro... they appear on t-shirts...

mikestew 9y ago
Though in supreme disagreement, I could see the case for Mao or Castro on a shirt. But who the hell is going to put Pol Pot on a t-shirt and wear it?
52-6F-62 9y ago
So does Hitler in some parts of the world. https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/xd5bdd/nazis-chic-is-asias-offensive-fashion-craze-456 https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/xd5bdd/nazis-chic-is-asia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_imagery_in_Thailand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_imagery_in_Thailand https://www.famouslogos.net/images/hitler-fried-chicken-logo.jpg https://www.famouslogos.net/images/hitler-fried-chicken-logo...