In terms of atrocities committed was worse Hitler or Stalin?

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History

Answer 1

Hitler... die hard believers in Marxist theory can justify Stalin's elimination of millions as necessary for the implementation of a communist state. Hitler was just crazy and evil.

Answer 2

Hitler was born in Austria in 1889. His family was German speakers, father working as a customs official on the Austro-German border. He was not very successful at school. At the age of 18 he moved to Vienna where he twice failed the entrance exams for the Academy of Fine Arts

Stalin was born in 1879. His real name was Joseph Djugashvili, Stalin man of steel being a name he adopted later in life. At the time of the 1917 revolutions he was already 37 years old. The biggest part of his life had therefore been spent in a country still ruled by the Tsars. When studying Stalin the dictator during the 1930s and 1940s remember that many of his attitudes were those of a young man who had grown up during the 1890s and early 1900s.

Answer 3

It is tough. Stalin has a higher kill number, Hitler was an invader/torturer. I am going to go with Hitler as far as being worse. Read about the camps and the things that happened. I am German, but that was uncalled for, and pure Hell. If we lost D-Day, we were done, they would have got us. Why was Hitler man of the yead and Bid Laden was not in 2001? Until Bush, we could never be hurt. I hope they suffer like Bush will in the ever after. Great question, thank you.

Answer 4

Well, Stalin killed more people then Hitler (approx 20 million vs 6-7 million). But Hitler was a little more.. well evil about it. Hitler set up death camps with showers that gassed his political prisoners, (gypsies, homosexuals, Jews). He also had medical experiments conducted on them. Stalin just had them shot or shipped to the gulag. Both were not very nice people, and to think Hitler was Time Magazines man of the year.

Answer 5

Stalin. Hitler gets more publicity for who he killed, but Stalin was worse. he starved entire regions of his own people. There are photographs of villages found with a few survivors who were eating the flesh of the dead to stay alive. Human skin and meat hanging on clotheslines like a fresh kill from a hunting trip. To me, that is worse than anything...
Edit: It kinda makes me mad that people are slapping down Bush as an answer. I don't always agree with w and i think he could do things a lot better, but to compare him with Stalin and Hitler because you disagree with his politics? i could see that if he wiped Iraq off the face off the earth, but not just because you don't think we should be there. There is a big difference in politics and the systematic, wholesale slaughter of millions of people over a short time frame. Come on. Let's get some perspective people...

Answer 6

Let's not try to figure. They were both pretty horrible. I suppose Hitler ultimately involved a larger part of the world in fighting back. With the death camps and the war casualties, he probably topped Stalin's record. But I'm not sure I've ever seen figures about how many Stalin killed.

The fact is, a monster is a monster is a monster.

Answer 7

Stalin

Answer 8

Stalin

Answer 9

That depends on which side of the line you´re standing on !!
Stalin killed more of his own people in the purges than hitler killed in his entire career (?) The camp at Auschwitz in poland was a Russian programme originally(I visited it never to be forgotten).
Hitlers noteriety was really the fact that he tried to erase anybody that didn´t conform to the German ideal of the Aryan race(him least of all)
His persecution of the jews was a side effect of the fact that the German race has blamed all the ills that befell them on the jews since the 16th century.
I have a sympathy toward the Russian people but apart from Gorbachev they have not had a leader worthy of the people, but his downfall was caused by long memories, when he promised reforms the people wanted it overnight. Since then they have started on a path back toward the old days of hardship.
Stalin? Hitler?
"Those who fail to learn from history are destined to make the same mistakes"
Not an accurate quote but you get the point!!!!!!!


Note: There are more people killed by private firearms offences in America each year than in conflicts around the rest of the globe !!
Figure that one out !!!

Answer 10

Stalin - he ordered for the extermination of 20 million of his own people including members of his own family. He out does Hitler 10 to 1 in the genocide stakes. After the liberation of the concentration camps in 1945 he imprisoned and exterminated in these self same former Nazi controlled camps political dissidents and those who spoke out against Soviet Russia.