Firstly, Hitler WAS responsible for bad things done to my family. German planes bombed my grandparents' bungalow in 1940, for instance. And that is trivial compared to what he did to millions of other people, such as those in concentration camps, some of whom are still alive today.
Sadly, there have been many evil dictators, and leaders responsible for genocide (for instance Pol Pot in Cambodia). Not least, Hitler's contemporary Stalin was a dreadful man, probably responsible for as many deaths and, I suspect, in himself a more identifiably pathological character. However, what is especially bad about Hitler is his use of an advanced society to industrialise evil. I cannot think of another genocidal leader who planned the transport of prisoners to death camps bureaucratically and who mechanised murder through manufactured gas poison poured into deliberately built gas chambers.
Finally, it is important that we know about Hitler, and other evil leaders, so that we avoid ever having their likes again.
2006-12-04 03:11:56
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answered by Philosophical Fred 4
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Didn't do anything to me? I had an uncle die in WW II. And the consequences of the war and the Holocaust are immense. Without that war, there would have been no Cold War. European history would be vastly different. The demise of European colonialism would have been remarkably different. Even small actions can have large consequences, and there's no way Nazism and World War II can be called small. More the greatest event of the twentieth century.
2006-12-04 08:04:11
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answered by Anonymous
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hitler [sic] embodies pure evil to many people.
Although he was not the only evil tyrant in history, he managed to become the epitomy of evil for what he did while in power of a nation.
The "PROBLEM" is that he has done something to every human being, by what he did to so many human beings.
What he did was an assault on humanity.
We should be able to discuss him in a civil manner, but to be honest, it is a very charged subject.
For some people it is still hard to speak of him in a completely subjective way because of family members who perished under his rule, and family members still alive who have a faded but very real tattoo blazing on their arm.
I am not accusing you personally of anything, just explaining and so when you call him 'fuhrer', it is like you are are calling him your leader. Because that is what that word means. Only those who adored him and followed his dictate called him that.
He has done something, to all of us as human beings.
2006-12-04 04:24:18
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answered by ? 3
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You want to wait for scheisskopfe like him to do something to you or your loved ones before taking action?
2006-12-04 22:02:41
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answered by Kevin F 4
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He killed 7 million Jews, Gypsies, gays, and foreigners for no reason other than his own dementia.
2006-12-04 03:00:21
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answered by Anonymous
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not to us but to alot of other people relatives, brothers, sister, mother, fathers, etc... and if you don't know someday domebody will do the same things to you or to the future generations.
2006-12-04 03:09:36
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answered by livinhapi 6
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because many people do like not to say "fuhrer" to be correct we have to say "hitler". and he killed millions of people just because they were jewish, how is that not bad?
2006-12-04 02:59:58
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answered by gets flamed 5
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DER FURER WILL RISE AGAIN!
As soon as someone finds him and digs him up!
2006-12-04 03:02:37
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answered by Afreeloader 2
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