Question for Germans: How do you view Adolf Hitler?

[Bluewolf]

I doubt there would have been a Cold War. The Cold War was the aftermath of WW2. Plus the state that the US and USSR existed in after WW2 would have been totally different if there was in WW2 (ie not as rich (US getting rich from trading with nazi's and lend-lease with the British), and technology not as advanced (Russians and US stole much German tech and scientists after the war)).

More likely there would have been 1 main power (Germany) and the others like US, USSR, British Empire, etc would be slightly inferior interms of power relations. I believe there would have been a multipolar-system, with a balance of power with US and UK allied, and maybe Russia with someone else.... I don't know tbh, but I imagine maybe 3 'alliances', or indeed Germany and someone (such as Italy and/or unlikely Russia etc) against everyone else.
I doubt the next war would have been 'cold'.

True, but I was only saying Germany would've have been powerful. Hitler is an A+ when it comes to leading people. But the whole concentration camp thing was stupid, he could've used those people in his conquests (instead of wasting lives and manpower), and conquered so much more... What do you think????

 

[Proteus]

Vaterland (Fatherland) is a good movie about a germany that has won the war, with the third reich stretching from GB to former russia, USA being the only remaining world power apart from the third reich and the Wannsee conference and the genocide of milliones of jews, gipsies and other people that didn´t fit into the system being kept a closely guarded secret that noone outside of a small circle around Hitler (who is at the time of the movie [1960] an old man) knows

 

[Bluewolf]

Is this movie in German or.. what? And how can I get a hold of it (I'm sure there are subtitles for english if not hopefully spanish)? (I'm a WW2 nut ^^)

 

[Proteus]

Nope, it as produced in the USA, so I assume the original is in english,
see here at the IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109779/

 

[Bluewolf]

Sounds good, I'll be going to rent it soon

 

[LightSpectra]

If I should name the 3 most evil leaders of the 20th century Hitler would be in the list,
along with Stalin and Pol Pot.

Mao Zedong is more evil than all three of them combined. He killed 50 million people (the majority of them starved) and set up a communist totalitarian state.

Heh, you could even say that Hitler's hatred for the Jews wasnt something special - it was quite normal at his time, especially among Catholics.

One, Hitler wasn't Catholic. In fact, he executed a lot of Catholics who were trying to practice a religion he saw as unpatriotic.

Two, the Catholic Church had spoken against antisemitism since the late 19th century.

 

[Adler17]

Hitler couldn't know everything indeed. But such a thing like the Holocaust is hardly out of his knowledge. He had complete control. Not knowing this would have been a severe lack in this abilities. Yes, he knew about that. He could not have known that. However the last proof that he knew that is indeed missing. Nevertheless his own remarks in his political testament, a message to Dönitz, are good hints he knew it. There are indeed so many hints he knew it that you can not think he didn't do that.

Adler