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Could Adolf Hitler Have Been A Good Man???

we hear everything about Hitler's  dirty side but could it be that he could have been a great leader or a good man???Undecided

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4 points

Everybody is born of innocence with a blank mind. It is what you filled that mind with that determines the nature of that individual. Consequently, he can and could be a good man. But he chose not to.

When you are corrupted with power and rage, destruction is the only result.

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3 points

With the amount of charisma that man had, if he had possessed a different perspective, he would've had the power the change the world for the better.

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3 points

There is no such thing as a "Bad Man," so yes.

It seems to me that every person acts with the belief that "What I am doing is right." or at least, "I am doing the best that I can." I believe that, with the exception of those with certain mental disorders, most people do not commit an action while holding the belief, "I am doing something wrong."

It doesn't seem to me that a person can be called "bad" if they don't believe that what they are doing is wrong. They are simply acting on the best information they have, even if that information is incorrect or misguided.

Accordingly, I believe that Hitler thought what he was doing was morally right. He was a moral objectivist, who thought that his policies would make the world a better place. However, even supposing that he was one of the rare few mentally disabled persons who act with full knowledge that they are committing wrong, then we can't really blame him for being mentally ill.

Today, we can pretty easily see that what he did was morally wrong, but I doing think we can say that he was a "bad" person.

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2 points

yes hitler would have been a glorified man.

if he was an american. he was a decorated man for what he did in the war he was a hero to most men of his age and time.

it may or may not been a political aspect to expel the jews from germany. if your familiar with the times of 1940 in america the was only allowed to be 4 jewish children in each school. in fear of what? im not sure im just skeptic about what the fear of the jewish people is. im just saying hitler could have just been follow that theory of jews are bad and thought he could ralley the world like he did germany, and then rule the world. there may be no excuse for killing of alot of people or of one certain religion but america has millions of deaths on its hand and as a religion aspect america is a christian nation and has been that way for years

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iamdavidh(4856) Disputed
2 points

You sound retarded.

The fear of Jews came from an easy boogy man often developed in a poor economy, which Germany had after WWI.

Jews became the scapegoat for jobless rates and poverty much like to a far, far, far (I cannot stress that enough) lesser degree some US citizens ignorantly try to blame immigrants for the current economic situation. Neither has an ounce of merit when lookded at from an economic or even logical point of view.

It was a new prejudice.

Hitler rode this prejudice to power - yet, he was not even voted in (yes Germany was a democracy) It was the death of their president which allowed Hitler's Nazi Party to take power. He would not have won a fair vote.

At any rate, it is an old formula those who seek power pursue. One wants an enemy when times are bad - even if there is none, they will happily blame one if they look or act or talk just a little different.

Diabolically and with a touch of insanity which records from his many doctors suggest he likely suffered from, Hitler used hatred pure and simple, to gain power. There was no altruistic motive to Nazism, only those who stupidly thought it may altruistically lead to a better future.

And frankly I hear all too often that Hitler was a military genius. He was not, and nearly every major loss can be blamed directly on his orders. It was his generals who were very impressive, many of whom did not agree with Hitler's ideas in the least.

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2 points

We can all be constructive and/or destructive by our actions and their intentions behind them, more so by how we perceive the world we exist in terms of how we react to it's physical environment, the political and social constructs of our species and to a more profound depth, what each and every one of us goes through in those crucial early years in our lives of childhood. How we react and respond to the experiences during and in the aftermath. Any one of us could be as destructive as Adolf Hitler and even more.

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2 points

He was a great leader, a charismatic speaker, he wasn’t a coward, he didn’t back down when others would, he essentially single-handedly rebuilt a nation that was in dire straits. He is controversially admirable though, as he is the one that people shudder at the thought of admiring him, yet he is the other side of the Winston Churchill coin, had Germany won the war, countless others would write about how Hitler was an admirable figure, but no one would say the same about “the great wartime hero that was Sir Winston Churchill”. History is written by the victor.

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1 point

Hitler was a good man in several way in that he cared for and respected animals and banned cooking crabs and lobsters, and fox hunting and cared for his dog blondie.

Also he was serious about health and banned smoking to save lives.

He had a jewish doctor.

And was a romantic man who loved many young women and mistresses , however he never married until 1944 to eva braun because he did not want to look weak, seem vulnerable or give the opposition a chance to exploit it.

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Hitler was a good man in several way in that he cared for and respected animals and banned cooking crabs and lobsters, and fox hunting and cared for his dog blondie.

Also he was serious about health and banned smoking to save lives.

He had a jewish doctor.

And was a romantic man who loved many young women and mistresses , however he never married until 1944 to eva braun because he did not want to look weak, seem vulnerable or give the opposition a chance to exploit it.

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4 points

We all know about the man who tried to exterminate an entire ethnoreligious group of people and directly initiated the deadliest conflict ever, a global conflict resulting in the deaths of over 70 million people ...but did he always get a round of beers in? Did he let Eva Braun hold the remote control?

He could have personally given everyone in western Europe a footrub to try to make up for it and he'd still be a douchebag...so no, he couldn't have been a good man.

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Well, besides being purely speculative, although I am not a expert on the life of Hitler, he was a good man for most of his life, but Germany went through hard times due to bad government policies, and he used this for political gain, and subsequently gained power and blamed the Jews and become very Nationalist, and despite the context, there is no excuse for what he did.

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2 points

There is no excuse for the targeted extermination of an entire race. I do not think he was a good man, but it depends on your perspective. People of Germany thought he was good. People of Italy and Japan thought he was good enough to be an ally.

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iamdavidh(4856) Disputed
3 points

People of Germany thought he was good

He actually lost the election. Germany due to economic circumstance was caught up in something similar to mass-hysteria. He was considered good by very few. The slight majority which did not stand against this (it was slight) did so either out of fear or ignorance. One should not lump Germans in general with Nazism. It is a good lesson to society as a whole that vast poverty can lead to horrible consequence even outside of the country suffering from it - when the impoverished have vast tools of war, which they did. The West had won WWI, and instead of trying to heal those wounds chose to kick the vanquished while they were down. This is what lead to the rise of Nazi's more than speeches or ideology. This is a good lesson even for today.

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