Here we go again:
zero unemployment - by spending unbelievable amounts of money the state only could afford to spend because it stole it from the Jews....
That is not how universal unemployment was achieved. It was more to do with clever planning and governmet borrowing.
Anyway, this is irrelevant, it was still an achievement.
the conquest of France - not Hitlers doing, not even his planning. Praise the Wehrmacht, and don`t call it great that Hitler attacked everyone he met (well, almost)
It was Hitler's decision. Of course he didn't personally do it. This is how large organizations work. The men at the top make the risky decisions and they get the credit. If you do not agree with this, then apply it to everyone, not just Hitler.
the unification of Germany - read your history book! it was Bismarck who did that, then Versailes bit of small pieces that would have gone back anyway after al while. Certainly nothing good to credit Hitler with!
It's sad that you had to make that kind of statement. All of the arguments in this thread stand or fall independently of that kind of statement.
Actually, Bismarck did not properly unify Germany, rather he deated Austria and France and created a Prussian Empire which had severe internal divisions. Hitler achieved the union with Austria and brought all the Germans in central Europe into the 3rd Reich. The only exception was the "neutral" Swiss.
diplo coups - yes, he was a giften demagogue and negotiator. I once saw a documentation where an old Wehrmacht General recalled how he had seen hitler work himself into an artificial rage just so he`d frighten the British ambassador. But Hitler had war weary opponents and threatened war - not really GREAT coups, are they? Rather, shortsightedness and fear on the hands of his opponents!
Every statesman faced has to deal with circumstances not of his own creation. You might as well say that Hitler should not get credit for anything he did because the Big Bang was ultimately responsible. However, if we're going to start judging statesmen for their achievements, the statesman has to get some credit. After all, Hitler successfully played on that fear by encouraging it, and for a long time he got what he wanted. That is an achievement.
Now, did he do great things?????
So yes, he did do great things.
Hitler's regime was a deeply immoral one, but that has no implication on his ability as a statesman. I'm sure that you or somebody else is going to come in and point to the immoral things that the 3rd Reich did or the questionable methods Hitler used in politics. That will do you no good in this issue, it'd be more suitable for a thread on "History's most Moral or Evil leader". Great things in history are not necessarily moral things.
- Philip II is certainly better than any other Macedonian, or for that matter, anyone from the REST OF GREECE 
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