Why does everyone look at how something ended, infact lets do this for everyone. Napoleon didn't keep his gains, and also allowed France to fall into ruins. You can't say someone who revived a Nation such as the 1929-30 Germany once more into a superpower can be said to be a failure. The damage done to Germany by the allies was mainly to do with the divisions of the East and West and more importantly the cold war. Germany had been split up between the four victorious nations unlike any other war before. Whilst Japan had only been taken by the West, Germany had the issue of the USSR having control of a section. The USSR refused talks in the reunification process and then we had East and West Germany. Oh, and get Stalin the **** out of the game if you think Hitler should not have been in. He killed more of his own people than the fatality list of the entire Second World War for any and all nations. He killed his own generals because he didn't want them to overthrow him, and if it wasn't for the USA the Russian winter would have done near nothing to stop the Germans, let alone fight them back. I would actually say Stalin was a joke of a leader and his only progress came from the most horrific acts mankind has every seen. At least Hitler only took on groups of people instead of everyone, and he achived probably more than Stalin did in the build up to the war. I personally can't stand the idea of the Josif the jackass being in the game over Hitler or any number of better leaders. The most impressive thing the communist pigdog did was gain power through a you scratch my back I'll stab yours meathod. It happens with the ALP too, its how we're assured to have the biggest nutjob, arseholes we can get. Just in my lifetime we've had the likes of Keating, Latham and the current joke of a man; Rudd (Beazley & Creen I didn't have that much against, Hawk I did't mind). People concider Hitler again, read up on him. Forget late 1939, for get the holocaust (yes it was horrific, but no worse than 'a day in the life of Joseph Dzhugashvili'). Remember he rebuilt Germany, united them and took on the world with Japan and the incompetant Italians.