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Was Hitler a 'Great' leader?
Well let's face the facts.
Under Hitler Germany nearly conquered europe. That's quite a feat considering they were germans.
Economically, Socially, Industrially -> In nearly every aspect, except probably morally and spiritually, under Hitler Germany became better and more powerful.
This guy took advantage of the primitive minds of those who thought irrationally because of the economic mess they were in. He then used his amazing public speaking skills to made a bunch of promises and used his media to demonize those who opposed him. Once he had completed that he was able to make the government control every aspect of people's lives... sound familiar?
He accomplished more in a dozen years than the best of 'em accomplish a 50. What did Queen Victoria ever do? What did Queen Elizabeth II ever do? What did Alfred ever do? Hitler was the most prominent of them all. He managed to turn a country of immigrant into a country of (somewhat) pure Germans, himself not even being pure.
Yeah. The thing is, people associate the word "great" as a good attribute. And most of us aren't used to saying good things about Hitler. So it's kind of weird, almost like a trick question.
He gained the trust of the people of Germany. He lead them out of the Great Depression and created a stable economy. Was he a good leader? Yes. A good military tactician? No.
I said he united the country of Germany. He was a brilliant strategist. Do you remember the Panzers? He commissioned not only the building of them, but also designed the units and the way they approached their enemies.
'Charging into Russia' was an effort to destroy communism (now that is an incredibly stupid idea) which was one of the Nazi regime's greatest beliefs. If they attacked Russia in the first place, they would probably have won the war.
technically hitler was a great leader, but, only because he was an evil genius who knew how to persuade people. he conqured half of freakin europe, however, i do not not agree with the killing of innocent people.
Yes he did do horrible things, but you must admit Hitler was a genius in the ways he planned to do these things. He had a plan for the world and if he had not died, I'm sure his plan of the world being only made up of only what he considered the master race. Hitler was indeed a genius.
That's quite a feat considering they were germans.
What the bloody hell do you know about the Germans? They conquered the Roman Empire, they colonized parts of four continents while France and England were still in their petty feuds. They had literature of extreme wealth of substance. The Germans were perfection personified. If they had been only a little greater, Hitler would surely have succeeded.
I know you think Germans are Aryans (not true) and that Germans are an amazing race because of their accomplishments (what?) But tbh conquering Rome and the Nazi regime is about as good as it gets for them.
Sulith said that Germans were Aryans. In his debate he wrote about the German peoples, so I naturally went with that. I don't believe that I said that they were Aryans, nor do I believe it.
They have done many things throughout their history. Did you know that they were the first Europeans to discover North America, about five hundred years before Columbus. They were writing novels before the rest of Europe knew the first thing about writing (the Sagas). They did a lot more than most people give them credit for. Probably because they are still disliked.
Right. So Germans may have been great Europeans. There's a world outside of Europe. Compare them to other civilisations i.e. Eqyptian, Indian, Chinese, Mongolian, Arabic, Persian, Aztec, Incans, Ottomon... the list goes on, you realise it's pretty weak. I mean you're actually taking one or two minor things and making it look like it's a lot better than it is. Have the Germans actually done anything amazing that no other civilisation has? or atleast been advanced in a way that no other civilisation has? (apart from the Nazi times)
I've got nothing against Germans - just so you know.
Although the things he did were inexcusable and totally unjustified, Hitler was a great leader as he was able to engage people through his confident speeches, seemingly organised rallies and propaganda techniques.
he had no choose what he did. his country was in a depression and no other way to point the finger at the Jews to tell then it was there fault about world war 1.. so i say no horrible leader who deserved what he got that's why he is where he is in the history books!
2 million is more than 1 million. 2 million is not a million. It is "millions". Less millions that 3, but not a million like 1.
However, lets leave the realm of semantics and into the realm of statistics.
Overall, about 5.7 million (78 percent) of the 7.3 million Jews in occupied Europe perished [1]
5.7 million is millions I think.
That can be compared to the five to 11 million (1.4 percent to 3.0 percent) of the 360 million non-Jews in German-dominated Europe that the Nazi's killed.
"Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' systematic murder of millions of people in other groups, including ethnic Poles, Romani, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other political and religious opponents. By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million." [2] people.
17 million. Now we are talking some serious fucking zzzzzzzzzzz at the end of "million". Instead of saying "millions", we would be more correct to say, "the Nazi's killed millionzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!"
[1] Gilbert, Martin. Atlas of the Holocaust 1988, pp. 242–244
1. There are two links. The first is NOT to wikipedia and it addresses the main point: the millions of Jews killed in the holocaust. The 2nd link supports some additional but not not necessary points. They need not be true for your point to be untrue.
2. You could have provides data which disproves this secondary point, but you can't or won't. Instead, you attack the source of the data. This is a well know logical fallacy. But you can safely ignore the secondary point as you've already been proven wrong on the main point.
Actually, the figure of six million is an estimate of how many Jews were sent to the camps, not an actual casualty number. This is merely used to elicit sympathy for the Jews and the Allies and to demonize the defeated Nazis.
I don't see how anyone with common sense could say Hitler was a great leader. He led his country to destruction.
A great leader is one who leaves his country better than he found it. Germany was considerably worse off at the time of Hitlers demise, than when he came to power.
Only those with a jaundiced view of history could possibly think Adolph Hitler was a great leader.
He was not a great lead what so ever. He killed many Christians and Jews. He didn't like Jews or the Christians at all what so ever. He would have his soldiers come into the house and threaten people to spit on the Bible or get shot
If you actually read the reasons for why people chose Hitler as being a great leader you'd understand.
A good LEADER doesn't necesserily constitute YOUR SUBJECTIVE view of a good PERSON - but it doesn't completely negate the fact that he's a great leader. Evil? Maybe - Ugly? Maybe - Does that mean bad leader? No.
Also the people that are voting yes must not be pure of heart and must be brained wash because what type of person would consider Hitler a great leader when he had over 10 million jews killed because they were not white and because the girls that were jews weren't white and they weren't blonds and because they did not have blue eyes. Our society should be as one against war and against people that only brought harm into the world.
Hold on a second. I recall him killing 6,000,000 Jews, not 10,000,000. He wanted them dead for more reasons than you mentioned. They refused to fight, for one. They were wealthy and (I recall, but am not sure) didn't want to give up any of their wealth to the government. Do you know anything about Deutschland? My grandmother was there and she has many, many good things to say about Hitler and his GREAT leadership.
