Adolf Hitler...........?

Question

Do you think if he had laid off the 'Speed' to help keep him awake it might have been a different story?
I mean if he had kept a clearer head he might have tightened his imfluence over his air, land and sea campaigns and actually taken over the world.
I know a lot of brave people laid down their lives and did whatever it took to fight the Nazis off..NO MATTER WHAT THE ODDS WERE but,
Basically do we owe our freedom to this mans drug addiction?

Answer 1

He didn't listen to the German General staff because they were more often than not wrong. Many Historians think that the early wins of the "lightning war" were based on the inability of military thinker (generals) of Hitler's victims to come up with ways of countering his out of the box strategy's. In short Hitler was the best general that the Nazis had at the strategic level. This is because he like Machiavelli saw politics and military opp orations as different sides of the same coin. It was Hitler's revolutionary anti-Semitic ideology that destroyed him, because in the back of his mind he thought that the British (Arians) were his true allies and that the Russian (Slavic) were his enemy's when the opposite was true. O yes you wouldn't like this, he incurred God's wrath by his treatment of the Jews.
I think people try to find things like the addiction to meds as variables which are all encompassing. However,Hitler was working on a timetable with finite resources. He couldn't make a deal with the British because the Americans gave them help and Russia was the object of their hope. Hitler thought by destroying Russia (He thought it would be easy) he would make the US except German Hegemony over Europe and thus the British would come to terms. Remember he thinks in terms of race and not in true geopolitical terms. Not drugs but a bad ideology.

Answer 2

No not directly, Hitlers first mistake was to fight on two fronts and take on the Red Army of the USSR; just like Napoleon, Hitler was defeated by the Russian winter.
Hitler made the mistake of not listening to the advice of his generals and so took command of the army on purely political and insane philosophical grounds.
America's industrial and economic might meant he couldn't build and replace his armaments to the same degree as America or the USSR, even with slave labour.
The American man power, and aircraft overwhelmed the German army with fresh recruitment of soldiers and the Luftwaffe with air superiority.
But we must mention a very important fact, in order to control western Europe, Hitler had to defeat Great Britain.
The battle of Britain proved the superiority of the RAF tactics, over the Luftwaffe even though British airmen were out numbered two to one.
If you look at the odds, Hitler took a chance and lost, the surprising element is how he nearly pulled off his crazy plan.
Hitler was bound to lose the war due to his lack of reality he showed as a leader, which he showed signs of well before the war and before his drug addiction.
What made Hitler lose the war wasn't his drug addiction, but his insanity.

Answer 3

Well, most historians think the "drug addiction" theory is overstated.
His personality traits, bursts of anger, not listening to contrary opinions, repeating the same idea, were evident in his time in Vienna in the 1920's. Documented by people who knew him at that time. Well before his rise to power.
Secondly, like all dictators, he distrusted those he could not influence/control. In this case, the Generalstab, who were almost to a man, anti-Hitler,if not anti-Nazi. (Contrary to popular opinion, Wehrmacht officers did not have to join the party.)
Your second thesis ,"tightening his influence"/ Well that was EXACTLY the problem. He did not understand mobile warfare, did not understand the need to trade space for time, did not prioritize his weapons production (actually CEASED production in 1942-figuring the war was won). His "unshakeable resolve" i.e., his refusal to face facts, prevented him coming to armistice with the Soviet Union in 1941, and 1942. His increasing control over the most minutiae: the equivalent of Roosevelt/Churchill, directing which units get new equipment, was directly responsible for the disasters that befell Germany from 1942 on.
In short, he was the Allies' best General to quote members of the Special Operations Executive.
Finally, one of the reasons that the Allies were reluctant to sanction an assassination of HItler, was the fear that someone like Doentiz or Heydrich might take power, and act in a more sane manner.

Answer 4

There is no actual hell or heaven. I feel like I've fallen down the rabbit hole here. Hitler was defective, just like a lemon of a car or a computer with a bad motherboard. He didn't have the right parts. If you choose to take the science out of the convo, then Hitler was evil for sure. He is where everyone else goes when they die. Heaven and hell are here on Earth.

Answer 5

It was also his assassination attempt that caused the pain that caused the drug addictions. The bomb ripped up his entire right side, and that caused him much delusion too. Remember his own military tried to kill him 7 times in 1943 alone. His drug addiction was on "wonder drugs" prescribed by a quack doctor, and those kind of drug remedies were very common in the 1940's and beyond. His entire miltary staff opposed the invasion of Russia, and he ignored them due to his delusional state. It brought about his downfall.

Answer 6

Hitler was a prick. He took things too far and could have got what he wanted alot easier than putting the world through what he did. Was Hilter larging it too much on the speed, probably, but you can't hold that against him can you? He could throw some shapes old Adolf and when he got on that dancefloor he was a gas.

Answer 7

Probably not. We have our freedom mainly because Hitler listened to his astrologer, and further, he lacked the natural resources he needed to mount a world war. No gasoline for the tanks in Africa caused Rommel to fail, for example. His astrologer gave him bad advice which caused him to mount attacks at the wrong time and in the wrong places. None of this takes away fro the lives sacrificed on our behalf!!

Chow!!

Answer 8

We owe are freedom not to Hitler, but to many people such as Churchil, Montgomery, Eisenhower et al. and not to mention the Russian winter and the Americans.

Answer 9

Well, he was very charismatic, and had the uncanny ability to sway the opinions of many otherwise-intelligent people. If he hadn't been addicted, it might have been a different story! Kinda like our "President", W.
Scary, huh?

Answer 10

Perhaps you should lay off the drugs....
Adolf hitler was a homicidal maniac..