Do you think Hitler was as evil as history made him out to be?
86203
Hitler was more evil then history wrote.  Some of the things in the history books are really toned down from what happened.  My father was in World War II.  He told me first hand stories about what he saw during the war.
885937
Why not?  Certainly God did and commanded things in his own Bible that we would consider unforgivably evil:  Genocide, mass murder, plagues on innocent people, forcing a woman to marry her rapist, killing a woman who is raped in town because she obviously didn't yell loud enough, endorsing slavery, ad infinitum.  Perhaps your Bible is the best lie of all.  There's no way to tell, and Satan is waiting for you on the other side!
312077
Of course it is...but that's inevitable given your earlier point about using the bible to justify just about anything.\n\nI am sure Hitler could have found good cause to use the bible to justify his actions had he not been an atheist.
947238
I'm sure you can tell by the previous posts that he "hurt" more than he ever could have hoped to help. His goals were to purify the German people (so to speak) and bring them out of a sorry state post WW1. But, if you call that help, I suppose mass murder and conquest would be is the way to go. Perhaps you should ask the question in an other way, I"m sure you couldn't have truly meant 'help' through containment camps.
522393
Hitler had the numbers (whether he pulled the trigger, gas chamber door, bombs...) to be the worst in the last couple hundred years.  I don't believe in hell, but I might make an exception for that sorry piece of sh*t.
608114
I think he had a horrible childhood and became mentally ill towards the end. I mean the control had something to do with it but some of the things this guy did were unspeakable. I can't figure out why the people that did his killings and tortures forced themselves to do it unless they enjoyed it too. I know you do what your leader tells you but I would think all it would have taken was a bunch of people to just blow his a$$ away .
1017149
Hitler was an idiot and the most not cool person in history!  People did see through him, they were just scared to say so because he was a freaking lunatic
1092679
There were thousands of good decent jews rounded up, put on trains, sent to concentration camps and killed cruelly, heinously!  Nevermind how many. Nevermind those who conveniently "forget".  Hitler  was a dictator who ran Germany.  He was an insane man with senseless prejudices that blue eyed blonds are superior to brunettes and that jews should be annihilated.  Whole families were called to come...they knew not for what.  There were constant calls for certain people. When their names were called they were ordered into one of the buildings, told to disrobe and get into the showers.   If they were lucky, water came through the shower over their head. People who escaped the worst reported that men who ran the showers would play with freezing and boiling water, on people, but this was relatively kind.  When they weren't playing with the water, they had the gas jets on and people were killed.  Trenches were dug. Hundreds of bodies in a spot were thrown in on top of others.  Meanwhile loving family members were separated with no control over it at all.  And their only "crime" might be that they were jewish.  And the dictator, Hitler, in his insanity considered killing jews his right.\nI was an American in my teens living on the east coast, and I met a woman in her 20s with an accent I was unused to. She told me about being in the showers, and about the night she would have been killed in them with gas only she and her boyfriend had a chance to escape on bicycles and they did and they succeeded, and they  came to the United States and got married.  What I know, I "experienced" through her first hand description. But she was rare. Countless thousands of them never had a chance. She was jewish. Since then I have met many people,  a lot of them Germans who emmigrated to this country who insisted  Hitler wasn't so bad, and this mass slaughter did not happen. They were people who never would have been threatened with the ovens,  they were citizens of Germany and whatever they wanted me to believe they felt strongly about it.  It made Germany's fearless leader look bad,  Since then I have seen moving pictures on tv, taken from life --giant piles and thousands of these nude bodies in heaps  thrown from trucks down big slant shoots, and not acted by actors,  this was real. I have seen this repeatedly.  Even while watching this horror I have heard  Americans decide to accept the (fiction) viewpoint and insist everyone around them believe it. People can believe what they want. I value the truth, pretty or ugly.\nPeople like to fictionalize history a great deal, on many sujbjects. \nThey not only fictionalize the truth but they cite a contrived fiction of yesteryear and get multimillions to believe it for political reasons, for $$$ reasons, and aftter a time for majority reasons. And  then if you have a mind of your own appreciate it but keep your own council, unless asked for the truth.\n  That shameful example of Man's inhumanity to man is  in this case, the truth.  Don't let it be swept under a rug and don't let it happen  AGAIN\nagain.
261505
I consider them both pretty evil.  Consider this, Stalin's mass killings were mostly before WW II (100,000 a year), and mostly from his purges and 'collectivization in early 30's with the latest estimate of around 20-30 million dead.  His genocide wasn't a full time occupation to his death, unlike Hitler, but that's where the comparison stops.  When comparing the two, both were evil, both put people in concentration camps, both committed genocide, both were dictators, both...well you get the picture.  The one factor Hitler had over Stalin tho, Hitler was insane.  Stalin was just angry and distrustful.\n\nOther things to consider,Stalin killed more people, Hitler started WW II, Hitler killed the Jews and some people in his nation, but he started the war that resulted in many troops dying on both sides.  Hitler may be considered the greater of both evils; tho Stalin killed more people it is said, Hitler's action ensured that those loses were as high as possible.
593818
Other than Jesus of course, I would say the very opposite type of person.  Adolph Hitler did lots of damage.
1092210
first of all war is not evil, okay let me rephrase war is evil if it is to kill and murder innocent but if war is declared to stop evil for instance Hitler majorty of the world will agree that hitler was evil yes? But if it wasn't the wars he would still have his way... what I am trying to say is war is not evil if it is fought for the right reasons, for freedom, for the innocent, and against evil to stop evil i might add something later on to this but for now this is it. gtg
713763
This theory you have is complete insanity!  How is it that any of the presidents you have mentioned are like Nazis????? \n\nThere is no way to answer this because there is no fact to base it one.\n\nJust because you hate the USA doesn't mean we all have to listen to your gibberish.
989137
NO!\nHe was crazy and so were his followers. All they had was hate for people and that is just wrong.
820679
I have to say no. Hitler was nobody's patsy. His ruthless path to power was strewn by more murders and say what you will, he had an ethos. I think an interesting perspective is that too many people took George Bush seriously and FAR too few took Hitler seriously.  Hitler, a combat veteran decorated witth the Iron Cross as a dispatch runner knew far more about war than GWB ever would. I am not seeing a GWB cult, ( or MUCH of one) , Hitler on the other hand was larger than life and delusional - ( bush is also delusional however ) , and I don't think that HATE is at the core of Bush's being, nor do I see the gleam of fanaticism and meglomania in Bush.   Could Bush ever create anything even close to National Socialism ? \nDid Bush rescue America from a depression and put its citizens to work and does the nation swear alliegance to Bush? \nAlso, can you entertain the idea of Hitlers father having to rescue the Nazi Party / Hitler admin from its foreign policy failures. \nBush is a " LITE" dictator wannabe.  He won't hold a candle to Napoleon, Louis the XIV, Cromwell, Tameraline, Fra Savronola, Mussollini, Julius Ceaser, or even Huey Long. \nHe is a different kind of political insect.   In a way I think his dad is beyond miffed at how badly his son performed when Bush 41 gave Bush 43 the presidency.  Yes there are some parallels but I just don't see the raging narcicissm and egotistical mania of Hitler in Bush. I would love to see the Neocon archetects of his presidency held accountable.  Good question.
645959
There IS good and bad in everyone. Hitler just chose to go with the bad. The good thing about him was that he always kept his mustache nicely trimmed. Sometimes the evil in a person just overwhelms the good. He made a conscious choice.
318351
I read all these responses and I'm stunned.\nPerhaps the problem is ... I'm not a Liberal.\nI am a student of history, however ... and GWB could not possibly be compared to Hitler.  To do so actually lessens and trivializes the evil that was Hitler.  I understand that some people hate GWB ... that's their prerogative ... I understand the arguments and the passion behind those opinions ... but comparing GWB to Hitler and actually BELIEVING Hitler would be a better "choice" only shows that some peoples' opinions are not based on knowledge and reason but, instead, on words they believe have shock value and effect ... much like Hitlers Ministery of Propaganda.  Until now, I never made the connection ... I guess Hitler was Liberal and this would explain the predominance of the answers to this question.  Hitler was a genocidal, drug-addicted madman who believed in occultism and the superiority of one "race" over others (whether or not they were German) and their birth-right to maim, rape, murder, torture and destroy a peoples because they claimed they were less than human.  Regardless of the arguments against GWB ... he has not lead a proganda campaign to brainwash adults and formed youth-groups of children to convince them that "all Muslims" are less than human and must all be destroyed.   Hate GWB if you choose ... but don't be so proud of your ignorance to compare him to Hitler ... shame on you.
933926
I agree with Dude. Look what was done to the native people of the land we call North America. Hitler don't have squat on what they did to the native people here.