dr bill, i think you comment--Hitler was an extremely able leader who took a demoralized country and made it great again. If he had not been so virulently anti-Semiticis not just simplistic, but wrong.
"the engine" that drove the economy was partly from stealing assets from not just the jews, but many others.. and from killing not just jews (the largest percent of the victims) but also handicapped, mental ill and chronicly ill, who were seen to non-human beings, who drained the econmy.
the jews made up close to 6 million of Hilters 8 to 10 million victims. Homeless (some gypsies, some just homeless) "illegal aliens" (many poles and others) and many of the sick, handicapped, and mental retarded and mentally sick made up the other millions of his victims. the numbers are hard to know, since many of the poor, homeles, and illegals just didn't have documentation.. and still have no one lamenting their passing. No one forgets about the genoside of the jews, because they have tried to make it unforgettable... but no one speaks out much for the gypsies.
the man was not just an anti semite, but a monster. many countries have had anitsematic leaders.. Jews were driving out of england for while (and later, allow in, but as second class citizens) out of spain, (where most if not all of their assest were seized) and else where, but hilter went beyond being an anti semite, and tried to commit genoside, killing not just german jews, but all the jews in europe, as well as 'purifying' european stock of physical and mental "misfits".
this is not a minor character flaw. there is no way he could be admired by any rational person.
his cruelty was not just visited on jews, and can not just be written off as anti semitism (as if some how, anti semitism was well, not nice, but well understandable... and something we all have but have learned not to talk about.. but something we have all come to a gentleman's agreement about.)
the man was cruel and barbaric, and has no worthy traits to admire.
Berlin- 1936
