Was Hitler right or wrong?

Question

We (America) wage war on country and groupes of people that invade or attact us. We killed British to win our indepentance, we bombed the Taliban over 9/11, we send tens of thousands of navtie americans to there dead on the "Trail of tears", but most see Hitler as evil. Hitler belived the Jewish people was attacking and invading Germany.He waged a war on them for what he belived was right and by our history was right! If he's wrong and evil why are we not?

our bombs kill men, women, and childern. Read your history and know your facts. We have killed twice as many as he did.

Answer 1

I would say he was both right and wrong. His industry and economy was superbly brilliant. Getting a nation which is under the shadow of a defeat nation off to it feet and making it a power house within just 10-15 years. It is quite a feat and all because he is a genius in this area. But he is wrong because of his misunderstanding of jews who he label as parasite whose only attempt is to leech and destroy any nation then taking over as a jewish state.

Answer 2

We do not kill innocents intentionally.

Atrocities against the Native Americans happened in a different time. You can not judge people in the past by modern beliefs. The British killed Americans in the Revolutionary War, just so you know. It wasn't one sided. Three thousand people were killed on 9/11 by terrorists connected to the Taliban.

Hitler was wrong, to answer your question.

And YOU are wrong for condemning this country. Your views are obviously naive and uninformed. Perhaps you should do a little learning yourself. Learn how to express yourself in writing. Learn how to spell. Study your nation's history. If you do those things, your points will be much more respected.

Answer 3

All war is wrong and just as Hitler used Propaganda and peoples Fears to successfully gain acceptance for what he wanted to do, so does the President of the USA to wage a war in Iraq an d when support fails he throws back at us our fears-and Israel wages war on Lebanon and Palestine and succeeds by using fear -they are just as guilty as the Nazis-bombing and killing civilians-I am hopeful that they will face War Crimes as is now being suggested by the UN.

Does good come out of War, well the US gained Independence, but they also wiped out and conquered a proud and strong Nation of Native Americans and hunted the black man in Africa and broke down his dignity to create Slavery in the US, so is it good that the USA gained its freedom, because they sure took a lot of Freedom from others. But this is a cycle and history is constantly changing and soon it will not matter, there will be no super powers and the world will attempt to heal itself or wither away into nothing.

Answer 4

Hitlers actions are only justified from a subjectivist Ethical theory. However, Subjectivism is pretty much ridiculous, as it assumes everyones actions are always right, basically. Pretty much every philosopher and human for that matter, would agree that killing innocent people whom you have not met but suspect as being gay, Jewish, gypsy, or any other random method of loose association is wrong. Along those lines, I don't think it was quite ethical of America to perpetuate the Trail of Tears or any other Indian Massacre, but by forcing regime changes in the middle east one could at least make a logical assumption that terrorism would subside.

Answer 5

I say Hitler was absolutely wrong; no doubt about it. However, whether or not we are wrong is a different question. Many of the things America has done and is doing now, such as the conflict in the middle east, by definition is wrong as well. Despite this, our government assures us that we have our reasons. We are supposedly fighting for freedom. The fact of the matter is, the things we did in the past (the maltreatment of Native Americans on the Trail of Tears, to use your example) led to where we are today. America is the way it is because of the things that happened in the past, and the way it is in the future will be because of the actions we make now. We are wrong, and although it is not my place to say this, I believe maltreatment of any human beings is wrong. War in itself is "wrong" by association. But it happens. If there were no wars, humans would die for other reasons. Disease, overpopulation. This world is not perfect in any way. The only reason we emphasize Hitler's cruelty (and also similar situations, such as Saddam Hussein's torture of POWs and Kim Jong Il's modern onslaught) is to learn from it. Even if horrible things do continue happening, at least they won't be a repeat of horrible things in the past. All in all, all of us are evil, but we are gradually learning.

Answer 6

The Nazis were a crazy, fringe cult--one that just happened to latch onto the presence of Jewish people in Europe as a likely rallying issue to get people behind Hitler. Even today, some people believe every lie that has been told, down through the centuries about Jews, and even if one were to successfully refute EVERY one of those lies, those people would still look at the refuter and say, "Well, people have hated the Jews for over 2000 years, so there MUST be SOMETHING to it, no?"

I suspect that may be what's behind your question, too. I think that you may be framing your own Jew-disparaging attitudes in terms of history and trying to find some sort of a logical precedent for it.

What was the REAL "Jewish problem"? The problem--the one that goes back to Roman times--was that the Jewish tribes were unwilling to lay down and be good little Roman citizens after the area in which their tribes resided were conquered. They always wanted to think for themselves and not be dictated-to. It's sort of like the Iraquis nowadays: Many Iraquis cooperate with the USA and with their new government, but there are a bunch of insurgent troublemakers who keep messing with the peace. And so it was with those long-ago Hebrews. The Romans got sick of it and decided that the only way to handle the Hebrews was to break them up and send them to the four corners of the Earth. So the Jewish tribes were dispersed from their original homeland, and that's how the Jews came to settle in Europe (and Asia, and elsewhere). Wherever they went, they kept to themselves, assimilated with the mainstream culture only to the extent that they could 1-earn a living, and 2-they wouldn't lose their ancestral identity. They never did anyone any harm; but they were not entirely controllable by the religio-political leaders, because they were "different" from their adopted mainstream cultures. Human nature is such that people dislike and mistrust all non-conformists--they perceive them as being potentially threatening, whether they are, in fact, threatening or not. And so it was with the Jews, who never hurt anyone, but who were suspected of pulling off all sorts of hurtful conspiracies. They were--and always have been--a VERY CONVENIENT scapegoat for all religio-political leaders: It's so much easier to gain power if you can point a finger at some dark, mysterious "others" and rally your potential followers against them! That's what Hitler did. And that's what many kings and religious leaders did before the Nazis. Get it? NO THREAT! It was a pretend, make-believe threat...one that Hitler got lots of people to believe, because they were already predisposed to believe anything bad about Jews that anyone told them (such as the lie that Jews kill Christian babies to make their special Passover matzohs with the babies' blood).

There is something similar going on in the USA right now. Lots of people sincerely believe that gays are a threat to the traditional heterosexual family lifestyle, and that if gays are allowed to marry, then all marriages will be irreparably damaged. And I'd REALLY like to now how it personally hurts Mr. and Mrs. John Smith if Bill Jones gets married to Fred Jenkins--I honestly don't get it. But most of the conservative, religious people are seeing something that I don't see. And it was the same way with the gullible German people being convinced--by some freaky-assed wierdo cult that makes even Scientologists seem normal by comparison--that the Jews among them were somehow a threat, when they were never a threat--especially not militarily. The only way that Jewish people are a (cultural or religious) threat is that their very presense makes a culture somewhat multi-cultural...and no control-freak conservative politicians can accept that sort of thing.

And, ultimately, THAT is where your stretch at trying to create an analogy breaks down: All of your other examples were of MILTARY threats. The Jews living in Europe were never a military threat in any way whatsoever.

Answer 7

Yup..it's just varying degrees. I find it truly scary that people do not get this. I had eactly the same thought about Blair ( I'm from the UK ). Nice Mr Blair. Smiley happy clappy Mr Blair. I was walking past Parliament Square in London last year. There was a demonstrator with a display that showed the bodies of babies killed in the Iraq war. Burning Bagdad Babies. Babies with their brains blown out. For what? Political ego and arrogance. If anything Hitler actually believed in his war. We all know that Bush and Blair did not believe the crap they were peddling about weapons of mass destruction.

I quit the UK a few weeks later. They are not getting my taxes to burn babies.

Oh...and I heard on here recently that the have banned demonstrations outside Parliament. After 1000 years of the right to demonstrate outside parliament ..*now* they ban it.

Answer 8

You can tell my friends mother that who witnessed Hitler's orders being carried out. One of which was the Jewish babies were swung by their feet into a brick wall to kill them and then thrown on a truck or trailer or something for removal and disposal. What is right about that. Even if he did believe that Germany was under attack what did these children do besides being born? I think you have your facts mixed up.

Answer 9

He was wrong because he systematically set out to commit mass homicide. He used the Jewish people as an opportunity to cease the power of a nation that had been beaten and was in financial ruin. In fact, the Jewish community was extremely productive. They were not taking from anyone, but were providing for themselves and others.

He used the weakest of his community to create blame and hatred. He knew that having a common enemy within can - unfortunately - create unity within a broken down society.

Answer 10

Hitler s war was for liebesrom, or more space, he always wanted more territory. His hatred of the world was unbound (especially after the insult of the Versailles Treaty in 1914). Killing the Jews was almost a side show for him. They were part of his excuse to kill everything that was not Aryan. But then what has always intrigued me was his alliance with Japan in the end.

Answer 11

Hitler believed that there should only be one race...........The white German race...........He planned to take over the world and did unthinkable things to children to try to make them "white" (inserted dye into their eyeballs with no pain killer, sewed 2 children together to see if he could make Siamese twins, etc.....) If you have read ANYTHING about what occured over there, it wasn't only JEWS that were oppressed (even though that was his target in the beginning)........ Catholics, gypsies, poles, italians(Mussolini was his sidekick and he STILL exterminated many), and at the end, ANYONE WHO DIDN'T PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO HIM............Americans did not ask Al Queda to plan and attack our country and had every RIGHT to defend the attacks made.............I personally believe that all WAR is not for the good of mankind, but, how can such a diverse group of individuals EVER come to believe all of the same things???? Such is life............