Originally posted by Magee
Indeed. Hitler done more for Germany than anyone ever had or has. He was a great ruler and could of had a great empire. He just had some really bad ideas and was, well... crazy
I'm not sure the term "great ruler" can be applied to Hitler. I mean, he was a great dictator, but that's in the context of a dictator. A great ruler is one that has in mind the best interest of the people he rules. Hitler was not concerned with the people he ruled, despite his rhetoric. The Nazi party had goals and ideals that I have no doubt they felt were in the best interests of the German people. However, Hitler himself was concerned with one thing. Destroying the world. In the psycological studies of Hitler that I have read, I've noticed that the common theme was that he had an overwhelming hatred of the world. This is no doubt a result of his childhood and his struggles with the issues of said childhood. He was a failed artist that had a grudge against his father. A mommas boy.
I have noticed that with anyone in the world, their personalities develop around a single factor. It isn't what you hear that effects you, it's how loudly you hear it. I can hear someone say something derrogatory about Jews, but how loudly it rings in my mind is how such a statement is going to effect the way I react to it. It's all about engrained personality issues that you are born with. That's why some kids hear about school violence and identify with it and act on it, while others don't.
That's why some kids are exposed to sex when they're young and develop in deviots, while others don't.
Hitler was simply one of those people that wasn't going to be happy, ever. If he had succedded in killing all the Jews in Europe, he would have focused on someone else. Once he conquered Europe, he would have continued across the world. He had only one goal, more than power, more than the ideals of the Nazi party, more than empire building...he simply wanted to destroy. This goes a long way towards explaining why he would be a fervent anti smoking, vegatarian, dog lover who had no qualms about killing six million jews in a gas chamber.