Is it weird of me to think that Hitler was not as evil as everyone says he is?

Question

I don't think what he did is right but part of me is sympathetic/pitying to him. But I don't mention that to others as I'll be called a n**i or something for it.

Ever since I found out that he had wanted to be an artist, I've been thinking. Maybe because he was such an outcast and had been rejected by society, he ended up in the only place that accepted and wanted him - a hate circle. He felt included and needed for the first time and started dedicating his life to this cause just because of that. Maybe he never really hated the Jew but got sucked in.

Plus I always found it strange that he disliked eating meat as it was animal cruelty.

I don't know. I feel like something's wrong with me if I don't really hate Hilter like everyone else. But I don't think I'm a bad person. ARGH.

Answer 1

Yes it is weird of you.  I wonder who you think sucked him in, and what you think of the others he had killed and those who died fighting his monstrous regime.  You must not have seen the films of the concentration camps and the ones of Jews being beaten and herded onto cattle cars, or the video of survivors telling their stories.  You should also read some of the books written by survivors and The Diary of Anne Frank, who didn't survive.  I can't imagine how the survivors would feel if they read your question.  Many of them lost their whole families.

Answer 2

As time passes, the truth sometimes gets passed over, but when alls said and done, and the lies get told and forgotten, there it remains, the truth. And some might say that's not entirely true, but I disagree. There's been enough time passed for the truth to surface about this, and, well, there it is. Hitler was a son of a *****.

Answer 3

Well I mean I always think (and i've heard) he had a serious mental problem, so i've always thought all the stuff he did wasn't entirely his fault just because he had issues. I don't like him and I guess I do hate him but still you have a point.

Answer 4

What's wrong is you don't make individuals responsible for their own actions.  No one made him do anything.  There are people who have had harsher lives than he did, so why don't they try to destroy masses of people?  He made a decision, and it was an evil one.

I don't think you're a bad person, but I do think you are misguided.

Answer 5

no, not weird - ignorant.  what he did can in no way be justified by having been rejected as an artist - that's absolutely absurd 'logic' (and i use that term loosely).  Do you honestly believe he was "just misunderstood"?

(hey, if you're ever looking for a job, consider the ACLU.)

Answer 6

Yes...he was evil.  But he also invented that stupid Volkswagen Beatle that all you retarded hippies like to drive.

Oh...and the Eisenhower Interstate System was his idea (Autobahn).  

Was Hitler evil...yup.  Do we use things he invented.  Yes.

Answer 7

Winston Churchill once said, "History will be good to me, for I intend to write it".  What that means is that history is written by the winners, and of course the losers are "totally evil".

But no one is totally evil.  That is a ridiculous thing to suggest, even when talking about Adolf Hitler.  You may think someone who clubs baby seals is a b******e, but when he goes home in the evening he kisses his wife like everyone else and throws the football for his boy just like every other guy on the planet.

In short, yes, Hitler did some rotten stuff, but there is nothing wrong with seeing the good in people, no matter how wrong they are.

And by the way, I have read all the books listed by one of your previous answerers.  "Night" is weak.  It tries to play on the emotions and doesn't really give anything useful as far as a direct witness to atrocity (yes, they shot some guys running from one camp to another, but it was the dead of winter...that would be a mercy killing IMO).  The Diary of Anne Frank has been proven a fraud by every scientific or investigative hand that has ever touched it.  Etc.

Yes, Hitler wanted to be an artist.  And if you google his art you will see that he had an extraordinary talent for it.  But his father felt that art was "sissy stuff" and refused to allow him to follow his dream.  I feel sorry for him myself.  No one should be made to ignore what their heart yearns for and perhaps if he would have been allowed to get himself a little cabin and paint his days away, we would have an entirely different history book to read.

I'm not saying that his father's actions justify those of the son, but if you delve deeper into his life you will see that - in a way - he was pushed to be the person he became.

Would you say GW Bush is pure evil?  Because there are plenty of people out there who think he is.

Answer 8

You're probably not a bad person (I don't know you), but you do sound pretty ignorant about Hitler's life and the conditions that caused him to become leader of the n**i party.

A person like Hitler is a sociopath. That is the ONLY way someone is able to systematically kill over 6 million people just for their ethnicity and  for dissenting against party lines and so forth. Hitler didn't have emotions like sympathy the way you and normal people do. He was calculating and manipulative and did not just "fall in with the wrong crowd."

You know, getting rejected from an art school doesn't make most people decide it's cool to take over the world in a blood bath. Yeesh. I think you're a LITTLE confused.

Answer 9

Hitler was a brilliant fanaticism architect. What was evil was the concept and those who executed it for him.  These were the real monsters.

Answer 10

It's not like you agree with what he did. Look at the Aryan Nation, they totally agree with what he did. I look at it this way...If Hitler didn't do what he did the world would be 20-30 years behind in technology as it is now. We gained so much knowledge because of that war it's insane. So without him the world today would be completely different. You're not a bad person.

Answer 11

Read Mein Kampf, the book he wrote.  If you don't consider him to be one of the most evil men in history, I do not know what to say.

Most people have been rejected at one time in their life, but that does not lead them on a path to exterminate large segments of the population (mainly Jews, but also Catholics, blacks, etc).  The fact that he dislike eating meat is irrelevant, if anything it shows him to be more of a monster than previously thought.  Having more regard for a cow than a human being is hideously evil.  

I don't think you are a n**i, but you sympathizing with the wrong group.  Feel sorrow and grief for those that were in the concentration camps.  

On second thought, skip mein kampf. It is too long and extremely boring. Read any one of the following:

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Girl in the Red Coat by Roma Ligocka

or Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.

Then you will better understand what Hitler did.