Was Hitler a great world Leader ?

Question

Was Hitler Realy a great world leader? Thats what my high school teacher is teaching us....

Answer 1

For millions of Jews he had killed? You call that a great leader?! No, no, no, no ,no ,no!!! He was not a great leader. Although he ruled the n**i during the World War II greatly he's not called as a leader. Instead he is more like a racist. Maybe you can call him "A Great Jewish Racist" but not "A Great World Leader." Imagine that, ordering your troops to kill Jewish people because you dislike them. He is more on dictatorship upon doing that.  

Answer 2

hmm no. He masterminded mass murder, how is this a great world leader? Your teacher should be fired for being such an ******.

Answer 3

He was an AMAZING leader, he just directed his energy in a wrong direction. He rebuilt a country that was physically and financially destroyed and bring so many of the people back together, along with fighting off several different forces at a time

Answer 4

Ethics and pitty aside, (two things that you can't let control your desissions if you are a leader).... Your teacher is absolutley correct.     Hitler was a great speaker, a speaker with the ability of influencing millions of people. a quality that no-one since has possesed as much of. at the time, the polocks and the jews were a great threat to him. he himself realized this fact and single handedly convinced millions of this fact. he effectivley wiped out the polich army in less than a month. he contained and nuetralized the jews that were threatening his reich. He pretty much invented the Volkswagon, the idea of the "highway", (autobahn), And led in the exploration of rocketry.

Answer 5

Not the nicest guy, but he did command authority and masterminded the Germans so I suppose he was good at his job , but then who would tell him he wasn't

Answer 6

Morality and ethics aside, I'm inclined to agree with your teacher. He viewed the mass murder of Jews as a necessity since he felt that it was hindering his nation from developing any further. Essentially, he was acting in the best interest of the Reich. Of course killing other people is outright wrong regardless of the circumstances and I am in no way forgiving the Holocaust, but as a "leader," Hitler did what had to be done.

Further, if you remove that entire incident from his background, then there's a lot more argument in him being a good leader especially by modern standards. He was able to bring Germany out of the global economic recession, restore its crippled military, instill strong national pride in the populace, and reclaim Germany's international standing as a world power.

In short, I feel that your teacher is in no way incorrect with what he's teaching you. He is, however, treading very dangerous ground and should carefully consider how he's teaching the material. Politically, yes, Hitler was great. Morally bankrupt, though.

Answer 7

actually, putting aside the whole mass murder thing, hitler was known to be a terrible leader.  his one strength was his public speaking ability and his way of putting german history into perspective in a way that germans ate up wholesale.

but he was a wartime leader.  and he was notorious for being a terrible leader.  he thought he was good, having served a few years in the german army, but he constantly got in the way of the German generals trying to fight an extremely difficult war.  and if a general tried to provide some constructive criticism, hitler would have him fired or killed.

there's a reason there were a couple of assassination attempts on hitler from within.  even rommell was implicated in one.  hitler made horrible tactical decisions in the war against russia, deciding to suddenly call off the main thrust towards moscow for no apparent reason.  he also continuously refused to provide rommell w/the supplies he needed to fight the war in north africa.   his treatment of the jews was a terrible strategy, since a huge number of exiled jews ended up doing things like working on the atom bomb for the allies, and working on other technological innovations.   another major mistake stemming from his fixation w/the jews was that he appropriate the country's rail system to transport jews and other victimes to death camps, meanwhile leaving german soldiers stranded hundreds of miles away from important battles were going on.  

he made numerous tactical mistakes in the western front as well.  he was also known to suffer from terrible gas, farting all the  time, making the war room that much more unpleasant.   in the end, look at what he accomplished.  he ruined germany.   when he committed suicide, he even had his dog shot.

the list of his mistakes just goes on and on and on....i can't remember them alll....towards the end of the way, generals in russia just started iignoring his orders.  he became so delusional that he ordered german armies that no longer existed to battle.  he also caused the massive slaughter of many young germans b/c he habitually inssited on his armies staying and fighting to the death, rather than retreating when retreating was the only real option.  retreat, regroup, and attack another day.  apparently, hitler was not aware of this concept.

Answer 8

He sort of was in that he helped Germany financially - especially before WWII.

After WWI Germany had to pay a lot of war reparations to countries like Russia, USA and Britain to make up for the damage they'd caused during WWI so they were affected greatly financially.

But under Hitler's rule Germany built up its economy so that during the Great Depression they were pretty much the only capitalist country who didn't experience a recession but instead experienced economic growth.

And he did unite the German people to an extent.

But he wasn't especially great with the whole genocide thing.

Answer 9

I think what we consider as being a great world leader today is different then what people perceived then.Germany was in a great economic decline then and he had the charisma to sway a country who had for centuries blamed the Jews for the downfall Germany .And he also went on the long belief  the they where the killer of Jesus.So do I think he was a great leader?No because he really only had one purpose is to kill as many jews and the so called misfits as poss so he could have a master race.He was more idolized for taking care of so called problem then really leading a nation.Remember that he only came into power by the promise of a master race and that can never be.And by the way the way he was to restore good economics was by taking from people their homes and business and giving them to "Good germany" people with a large profit going to the goverment.

Answer 10

Someone should really look into your history teacher's views and see if he could be leaning towards being a Neo-n**i. Hitler was no where near being a great world leader. He was a tyrant who ordered the deaths of millions of people.

According to the Treaty of Versailles Germany was not allowed to have compulsary military service for men old enough to serve in the military, which Hitler ignored in March of '35 when he started compulsary military service once more. Again under the treaty Germany was not allowed to build tanks, military aircraft, subs, and artillery, all of which Hitler ordered constructed. And yet again according to the treaty, Germany was not allowed to send any of it's troops (the treaty stated those still enlisted remain in the army for twelve years while officer were to remain for twenty-five) beyond it's borders. And yet Hitler sent troops to aid in the Spanish Civil War, using it as a training ground and developing the blitzkrieg tactics that they'd use in Poland. This wouldn't be the last time before the invasion of Poland that Hitler sent troops into other countries. It also happened in Austria and Czechoslovakia. Germany was also supposed to stay out of the Rhineland for a fifteen year period according to the treaty and once that was up they were to keep it demilitarized. Yet as soon as he could he moved troops into the Rhineland and immediate began remilitarising it.

Let's go back to Austria and Czechoslovakia. According to the treay Germany was to stay out of of both nations. In March of '38 Hitler sent troops into Austria, where they were welcomed and since the governments of the world were looking to appease Hitler they said "Well, we'll let you go that far but you have to stop there." So Hitler annexed Austria, something the Treaty of Versailles said Germany could not do. Yet he didn't stop there. In September he was then allowed, out of appeasement once again, to annex the Sudentenland, the largely German speaking border regions of Czechoslovakia. Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister at the time met with Hitler and got his promise that he had no intention to annex the rest of Czechoslovakia. Which led to Chamberlain to declare "Peace for our time." PEACE? Hitler had no intention of honoring his promise as he then sent in an occupation force to annex Czechoslovakia in March of '39! And we all know what then happened in September of that year. So much for Chamberlain's assurances of peace.

Ah yes, September 1, 1939. Germany invaded Poland. But they had help from Stalin and the Soviet Union. Which brings me to my next point on why Hitler wasn't a great leader, his stabbing in the back. In August of 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union became allies with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which is also known as the German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact. It stated the two would not go to war with one another and would concur Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,  and Romania together. Stalin never trusted anyone, but from some bizarre reason he trusted Adolf Hitler. He thought they had a lot in common and could be great allies. Which meant that he never listened to the advice from his own people not to trust Hitler, that he'd stab him in the back. And for nearly two years Hitler and Stalin (and the respective nations) were allies. All that came crashing down in June of '41 when Hitler's troops launched Operation Barbarossa on his orders. Just as Stalin had been warned, Hitler stabbed him in the back. And Stalin was shocked, completely shocked, by this.

Oh but Stalin and the Soviet Union weren't the only ones Hitler stabbed in the back. I'm sure you know of the SS. Well, early on they had rivals, the Sturmabteilung or SA (and at one time had been a part of the SA). Also known as the brownshirts. The SA helped bring Hitler to power, in fact they were very important to his becoming Chancellor of Germany. But the SA was too independent and a possible threat to his power so Hitler decided to silence them. Permanently. The Night of the Long Knives occured by his order. It was a purge of the SA's top command levels, carried out by the SS and the Gestapo. Political executions of people who had been so instramental in Hitler's rise to power who were then stabbed in the back by him. After which what was left of the orginization never enjoyed the power it once had and came completely under Hitler's boot heel.

And what of the Gestapo, a secret police which rounded up political malcontents and other undesierables? Great world leaders don't need secret police, their something tyrants use to keep themselves in power by eliminating all threats to their power.

Answer 11

He had great leader-qualities, like making speeches, communicating to the public, building the nation's economy, etc, but Hitler was not a great leader.

Answer 12

No. You are being taught by a n**i