was hilter mad or trying to give the world a better future?

Question

i think he was a mad man, who craved only power. what he did was so wrong that it makes me feel physically sick. what do you think?

of course i mean HITLER, towering, ya daft a s s ....thank you to the rest for being adult enough to understand a slip of the typing!

Answer 1

There was probably something wrong with Hitler from the start. He was an unusual child and he had a horrible upbringing. However until the second world war he was more than not a dye in the wool conservative. I have read both his books, MEIN KAMPand the book he wrote in 1928 but was never published until an American army historian discovered in records that had been transferred to the United States after world war II. In mein kamp he makes all the excuses for the Germanic peoples who were for much of the time living besides the Roman Empire and completely dismisses the achievements of the east or attributes these to the mysterious appearence of mysterious ayrans.
Therefore although he knew more about history than the university professors of the time he was a dishonest historian. Also althought no one could doubt his physical courage, he had no moral courage. In his first book he boasted that if the Jews bring upon Germany a damaging war they would be exterminated. However at the conference at Wannsee in January 1942 where the holocast was being planned, he didn't even have the guts to issue written orders for his preference of a homacidal solution to the "Jewish problem". Something he had so proudly boasted in his book.
As the war went on he began taking drugs. He was a drug addict and was injected daily. His mind became decrepid and he lost the German army so many opportunities to either win the war or get a better peace than they did. In fact , stategically, he was our greatest ally in the mistakes he made.
So initially there probably was something wrong with Hitler. In his own mind he was trying to give the world a better future. But this was only in his own mind as his dishonesty of history in his first book attests. Although he did do a lot for the German people to start of with, ultimatley, he caused the death of millions of them and left most of the rest in near starvation at the end of the war. If he wasn't bonkers to start with, and he wasn't, he certainly became bonkers at the end.
You see, most conquerers in history seek to add to their strenght, not deny entry unto such and fritter it away. They do all they can to ensure their armies victory. Not spoil their chances at every turn because of insane and unreal ideas. Another great butcher in history, Ghenghis Khan, built an empire four times the size of Hitler's partly by accepting anyone who would join him. Eventually of the Mongol empire it was said with accuracy that a virgin with a bag of gold on her head could walk from one end of the Mongol empire to the other with both intact. A concept of law, order, efficiency, tolerance, social benifit and strength-it seems-far beyong the perception of poor old Hitler.

Answer 2

An intresting question. One that is also very tough to answer. Have you ever heard of the "Big Lie". It is a philsophy thing, I believe it was Plato that started it. It is also alot of what Hitler seemed to believe. See in the Big Lie there was the Golden Class, which was to be the leaders, then there were the Silver Class and those were the ones who protected the Golden class. They were kinda off to their own little World because they were so high above. The idea was that they would be the smartest and best leaders. See much like Nazi Germany this theroy used the idea of genetics that has long since been disproven. That is that if you are one way your children will be that way. We usually refer to that as the Psuedo-Science of Eugenics now. See he may have thought he was doing the right thing. He may have been trying to bring a better future IN HIS MIND. That doesn't mean he wasn't a mad man in a sense. It means he thought he was doing the right thing.
You people who think he was totally insane are going to help history repeat itself. You are missing some key parts. First that he was so extreme he was actually kicked out of the Nazi Party. He was then let back in when he had them convinced that he was no longer so extreme, sounds pretty intelligent of an act to me. Not saying he was good, just that he KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING. He was a brilliant speaker and used the workers to get to his position. Seriously if you learned history you could learn how manuplative he was. Writing him off as some monster, acting like he wasn't human, that is just what his type WANT. See if he was a HUMAN someone could do it again. If he wasn't Human then it would be too clear if someone was trying to do it. THEY didn't know what was going on because he was a PERSON and they weren't paying attention. Who would think someone could be so evil? Remember what HUMANS are capable of, or suffer it again. Pol Pot, Pinchoet, Stalin, Castro, Saddam, others have done it as well. Hitler wasn't unique when you think about it. I am only using more modern names.

Answer 3

The goal of Hitler's Third Reich had little to do with the world, but rather a unified, "pure" Aryan German utopia (of course, this "utopia" was envisioned to encompass most of Europe). In that sense, Hitler wanted to make Germany a superpower with a "better" future. However, the means to do so involved segregation and extermination of national "impurities" (i.e. Jews, Gypsies, political enemies, Bolsheviks, homosexuals, etc.).

Was he mad? The answer depends on whether you see intolerance and "racial" hatred as madness. I personally would think so, however. He was not a stable individual.

Answer 4

He was power mad, 'megalomania' and suffered from delusions of grandeur. He came to think he was greater than Napoleon, which is why, thank God, he opened the second front. He believed he could conquer Russia (aka Soviet Union) whereas Napoleon had failed. Millions of Russians and Germans died in the attempt and Hitler (like Napoleon) failed. There are parallels amongst world leaders today, but if I mention them I'll probably get a violation notice.

Answer 5

Gotta realize that Hitler seldom if ever thought in terms of conquering the world. He was out to make Germany the "superpower" of the world. Up to and including his invasion of Poland, Hitler really just wanted to expand Germany to what he (and many other normal, sane Germans) thought was Germany's rightful place in Europe and history. He displayed some very disturbing qualities prior to the beginning of WWII but, judged according to the times, he was not a deranged, insane, madman. At some point after the war started, the stresses of first being apparently a military genius and then finding out he wasn't as he started losing the war seems to have reinforced his "disturbing" qualities, removed any effective checks to his power within Germany, and turned him into a drug-addicted raving lunatic. At no time did Hitler plan to give the world a better future. Only Germany.

Answer 6

Both. I think Hitler was mad in some ways, but also wanted to give himself a better future. I find it funny how as a young child he believed he was a priest. He grew up thinking he was God.

Answer 7

Since I live in Germany I have a differed opinion then most People.
I believe it was very wrong what he did but I must say at the beginning I think he wanted to help Germany since so many people were without a job.

Answer 8

Mad. I lived in Germany for a few years and I visited the Dachau Concentration camp.. It was just the most horrible place I saw letter for help written in blood, the oven, the showers were gas came out the nozzle in stead of water, mass graves. He incited all the other madmen to carry out his evil orders.

Answer 9

He must have assumed that his method of government was superior to all others. Guess that was why he, felt the need to invade the rest of mainland Europe and trigger what was, hopefully, the last ever, World War.

We regard this type of behavior as insane. The leader of a country may not attack another country, or they are 'bad'.

(Man, I am trying hard not to make reference to the current situation in the Middle East).

Answer 10

Hitler was mad obviously, but I suppose to the anti semenists (i think that is what they are called), believed that he was trying to preserve his race. I guess it really depends on where you stand on that issue.

What I would really like to know though, is how he figured the Jews were responsible for all the bad things that happened. I would like to know how he made that leap!! It was crazy!!