Boris Gudenuf
Deity
. . . German nationalists, and Nazis in particular, had sketchy ideas, many of which would have horrified the people they roped into being their icons (e.g., Bismarck would have loathed Hitler). That the Nazis liked someone is not adequate reason to paint them as a villain. (A few exceptions do deserve it, like Wagner.)
Just started reading a new history of the German unification movement in the 19th century, Blood and Iron, and the German author points out that the original "German Nationalists" were the Liberals. Bismarck and the conservatives in general thought they were out to do away with the traditional 'Divine Right' monarchies in the German states (which they were - they started out taking their inspiration from the French Revolution, which didn't win them many friends among any conservative group in Europe), and detested them.
Bismarck's view of German Nationalism meant A Prussian Monarchy leading Everybody Else: no liberals, constitutionalists, democrats, socialists, or even other German states had any place in governing His Germany. Given Bismarck's embracing of realpolitik (a term invented by one of the German Liberal politicians, by the way) not only would be have despised Hitler, but Hitler might not have realized the fact until it was Too Late, the usual fate of Bismarck's German political opponents . . .