Had hitler not killed jews would he be hailed as one of the greatest leaders ever?

Question

i do not want to offend anyone by this

my statement is that hitler is a ( insert offencive word of choice ) and should have died a more painful death

but if he did not kill jewish people wouldnt we think of him as a ledgend?

PLEASE DONT TAKE OFFENCE
i know hitler is a touchy subject so please keep your answers G rated

Answer 1

I am Jewish and frogspeaceflower has studied Hitler extensively. He was quite mad. Yes he was an effective orater and came to power at a time when Germany really needed nationalism. After the first world war Germany had to make many reparations due to the Versailles treaty. Immedialy after the war the victors met in Paris and negotiated the Versailles Treaty. Germany was kept under a food blockade until it signed the treaty, which declared that Germany (and Austria) were guilty of starting the war and therefore had to pay all its costs. The treaty required Germany to pay enormous annual cash reparations, which it did by borrowing from the United States, until reparations were suspended in 1931. They were angry and ready to return to power. Hitler facilitated this. Had he not commited genocide he may have been remembered as a great leader.....at least by Germany. Peace.

Answer 2

I don't think your question is offensive, but It always amazes me that anyone could ever think Hitler was a great leader. What possible criteria could you have in mind? Leaving aside all the harm Hitler caused to others, just consider what he did for Germany:

Before Hitler, Germany's economy struggled under the burden of reparations resulting from WWI, but it was growing and life was steadily, if slowly, getting better for the German people.. After Hitler, 5 million Germans were dead (not counting Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, and others murdered or worked to death in camps, and not counting dead Italians and dead Japanese and dead Russians and Belgians and British and Americans and French, etc.), virtually every German city was in ruins and the entire German industrial base was destroyed.

Great job, wouldn't you say? Take a perfectly good country and turn it into a bloody ruin. That's the stuff of greatness, isn't it?

And how about his skill as a general? After suckering Chamberlain into giving up the Sudatenland without a fight, Hitler stupidly provoked war by invading Poland. Poland, for God's sake. In the history of the world, nobody has ever been able to hold Poland. Not even the Poles. Then, while he was at war with Britain, he opened a second front in Africa and then, completely gratuitously, a third front by invading Russia. As a consequence, he was not able to adequately reinforce and resupply Rommel's Afrika Korps and that portion of the German army was destroyed when they could not even withdraw from Tunis after El Alamein.

His Russian invasion was the greatest disaster in military history. Germany lost between 3 and 4 million men and a huge amount of machines and material, brought Russia into the war on the side of the Allies, and sacrificed a vital supply of petrolium. And it was completely unnecessary, since Germany had a non-aggression pact with the Soviets. Pure genius.

And how about how he handled the Western front? Hitler was convinced the Allies would invade at Calais. When they invaded at Normandy, he thought it was a decoy and refused to commit several vital armored divisions until it was too late. He had no air power to repell the invaders with; the Luftwaffe had been destroyed by ineffective raids on English cities and futile attempts to suppress Allied bombing of Germain cities. What a master of strategy!

My point is, if you ignore all the war crimes and crimes against humanity, and ignore all the harm he did to the Allies, to the other Axis Powers and to neutral countries, and only consider the results of his actions from the German perspective, he is the most incredible buffoon ever to gain control of a major country. He was completely out of his league at every activity he attempted, above the level of running a street gang willing to murder his enemies.

Answer 3

a million He approved the autobahn 2.Porsche outfitted the V W. 3 Hitler inherited the Olympics 4 The hands market. 5 Werner Von Braum advanced the V2 rocket. 6. Messerschmidt advanced the first production jet. England and the U.S. were in basic terms at the back of them. 7 on the rate of the peoples held in concentration camps. 8 Canceled operation sea lion because Luftwaffe might want to no longer ruin the Royal Air rigidity. The landings might want to have failed. 9 yet another failure of the vaulted Luftwaffe. The Wehrmacht replaced into halted so the Luftwaffe might want to end off the British. This failed. 10 The allied air forces destroyed the demanding water plant life that the Germans necessary to make atomic bombs. They were at the back of the U.S. in the variety of the bomb. If Hitler had the bomb he might want to have used it on allied objectives ny city being one in each and every of them. 11 England lost a lot of this is holdings. France held onto this is colonies until eventually the previous due 1950's. Japan did not resign until eventually the atomic (no longer nuclear) bombs were dropped. Had Japan surrendered before they does no longer were used. Checking data isn't your solid element.

Answer 4

No because he made a lot of military mistakes. For instance at the beginning of the war he bombed airfields and would very soon have reduced Britain's air cover to nil but then the British bombed Berlin and in a rage he changed his bombing strategy to attacking civilian targets, esp. London. This gave Britain the chance to build up their air force and win the war in the air. He didn't invade Britain because he consulted astrologers who told him the time wasn't right, even though Britain was actually totally unprepared. Also he invaded Russia. It is the first thing any good military leader learns, don't invade Russia, it's too big and the winters will kill you even if the Russians don't.

Answer 5

Oh that's an interesting question. I think for a small while (maybe 2-6 years) he may have lead Germany down a "more successful" path. BUT he did have that overwhelming unbridled obsession for power. That would have eventually lead him to do evil. It's like asking if I spend on credit, will my life be better?? Well, it may seem life is better at first but it's a habit that will ultimately drag you down in despair. So no he would have still been shamed.

Answer 6

He still persecuted others, like homosexuals, and had plans for the mentally infirm that most civil societies wouldn't dare pursue. Also, his invasions of sovereign states were just plain aggression. Of course, he is in some part responsible for the Autobahn and Volkswagen.

Perhaps he let the not so little matter of power and racial intolerance poison an otherwise intelligent mind.

Answer 7

If Hitler died prior to the start of War ( say 1938 or so) he would have been viewed by many to this date as one of Germany's greater leaders for his accomplishments (bringing Germany out of it's depression, building the economy, reversing some of the Versailles treaty's stipulations, so on and so on). As for him being tauted as one of the most evil leaders ever, I don't believe it was solely his persecutions of the Jews that gave him that distinction. It was his vicious ideology, lack of respect for human life in general, and his military ambitions that earned him his well deserved reputation.

Answer 8

Hitler was still borderline insane, despite the German war machine's impressive string of victories. It was only after America had gotten into the European theatre did Hitler's insanity and fallibility show, and it led to the collapse of the Axis powers in Europe.

Answer 9

Even if he hadn't killed Jews, he killed 6 million non-Jews as part of his Final Solution. The Jews took it the hardest - Hitler's aim was genocide - but they were by no means the beginning and end of his brutality and madness.

Answer 10

Had Hitler not killed Jews, Nazi Germany might have succeeded in conquoring the world. Albert Einstein might ever have left and Germany would have had the nuclear bomb not the US.