NewbieHere
Warlord
We all know he's evil, but was he the Devil or had he become evil because of an abused childhood? If both, which one acts more?
Adolf Hitler
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Zarn
Le Républicain Catholique
Xen, how many things on CFC really matter?
I say childhood did it.
cgannon64
BOB DYLAN'S ROCKIN OUT!
Childhood and, most of all, choice.
NewbieHere
Warlord
I don't supposed it does, which is the purpose it's in the OT forum
But personally I think his childhood changed himself more than what his genes did, his mother died early and his father beat the son regularly, Hitler escaped his home when his dad didn't allow him to go to a school of art, then after applying himself to that school for two times and failing both, Hitler basically became a beggar, selling his art work to people on the street...
exactley- its kind of obvious that enviroment HAS to be, considering that we already know genes artn responsible for that type of behavior, and if you dont have a devil/satan, or even a figure along those lines in your religion, it kind of rukles out that option dosent it, as IMO, satan is a mere fairy tale
Zarn
Le Républicain Catholique
Not all believe Satan is a fairy tale. It's different anyway, though, since Satan is a fallen angel not a human.
Oruc
Reactionary
i blame the internet
Zarn
Le Républicain Catholique
That's not possible. Al Gore invented the internet after WW2.
onejayhawk
Afflicted with reason
He was a sociopath true enough, but not simple. A simple sociopath would pad his own nest, not try to take over the world. He felt himself to be the appointed avenger of Germany's shame at Versailles, and he worked very hard to that end. I suspect that Hitler, circa 1920, would be appalled by what happened to the Jews in 1945. The process was gradual, partly because of the God complex, and partly because of the people he surrounded himself with.
Remember, it was only after the assasination attempt, and the following purge, that the wholesale slaughter began. Up to that point most Jews, Gypsys and so on died of malnutrition related disease. Only in the last 8-10 months was there an attempt to kill everyone.
It is a traditional dichotomy. One person orders and action, but does not see the reality. Another person carries out the order, but relies on the order to salve his conscience.
J
Remember, it was only after the assasination attempt, and the following purge, that the wholesale slaughter began. Up to that point most Jews, Gypsys and so on died of malnutrition related disease. Only in the last 8-10 months was there an attempt to kill everyone.
It is a traditional dichotomy. One person orders and action, but does not see the reality. Another person carries out the order, but relies on the order to salve his conscience.
J
Bozo Erectus
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I blame violent video games, child abuse, racism and in-utero crack addiction
Adolph was born plain old nuts and later moved on to fullblown kookiness. I think the 'sane' people who followed his orders were even more evil than Hitler, an obvious wackjob from the word go.
Most of his anti-Semetic views came from the mayor of Vienna at the time of his adolescence (whose views probably came in turn from age-old Jew-hating prejudices), and he was able to combine these with the emerging science of eugenics to carry out his "evil"* plans. I don't know about his abused childhood, and in fact I thought I heard somewhere that that's a myth, but if it's true that he was abused it might have made a small--keyword: SMALL--contribution to his evilness.
*I put evil in "" because it's a little belief of mine that we can't objectively judge what is right and wrong, but going by my conscience--and most everyone else's--what he did was indeed not right.
*I put evil in "" because it's a little belief of mine that we can't objectively judge what is right and wrong, but going by my conscience--and most everyone else's--what he did was indeed not right.
No, genes can indeed contribute to mental disorders (or whatever the right word would be) such as Hitler's.
GenMarshall
High Elven ISB Capt & Ghost Agent
He was droped on the head to many times
SanPellegrino
Wanderer
He was Austrian. There is a joke here that goes: "what is Austrias biggest achievement? - to make Hitler a German and Mozart an Austrian"
Oruc
Reactionary
but he liked germany better, thats why he was in there army in WW1
HighlandWarrior
Mr Political Analyser
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he was a socialist so he must be the devil himself...
