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Question

We were asked today in school about a hero, someone we look up to...

as soon as i started thinking about it, I realized... I am greatly inspired by hitlar. I hate everything he did, but just that power that he wanted, and was able to get... i just love it. D= Although all of his tactics were terrible...

Even though i hate everything he stands for, and what he did, does it make me a horrible person that the power he wanted and got inspires me?

Answer 1

Libby;
If you love hitler now,you should do some real reading about him and I'm sure you will love him even more.

after doing some REAL research,you will find that hitler was very interested in doing what was best for his country and his people,,did you know hitler had his scientists come up with the idea for the volkswagon?the idea was to produce a car that EVERYONE could afford!!To me that was a great thing,,,,I belive his generals were responsible for a lot of the attrocities he was blamed for......I am sure that it is ok for you to take example,or influence from great leaders llike him,as long as you are able to discern the good from the bad and try to understand that while great management skills and forward thinking ideas,do not excuse the inner desire of the man to rule the world...take bill clinton for example,,,he did great things as president,,but I was appalled at some of the things he did in his personal life while he was pres,,great pres,,bad man,,,see what I'm getting at????

Answer 2

Hitler was a strong speaker who learned very early in life that if you tell people what they want to hear when they want to hear it, success will follow. He also was surrounded by very smart, powerful people, each with their own agenda. He did not attain his level of power alone, and a good deal of it depended on influencing the young, vulnerable and naive..

If you read some of his writings/rantings, (Mein Kampf for example) you'll soon understand that he was insane.

Insanity can be charismatic - draw people in - but ultimately it ate him alive & was the cause of his downfall. I'm not sure how inspiring that should be, really - since it ended in terrible failure, at terrible expense.

PS - Showing an intellectual appreciation of what someone is/was able to achieve while condemning the methods used and the damage done doesn't make you a bad person at all.

Answer 3

May I make a suggestion? TIME magazine named him as Man of the Year one year in the early 1930s. I'm reasonably certain reprints are available or it may be posted in total on the web. Read the article; see why he received the award.

You see, I understand your position. I don't have any heroes. I'm 59 years old and I guess all the shine is off them. I do have a deep abiding respect for several men with two of them coming to the top when ever I think about it.

I respect Paul Tibbets. His single accomplishment may make him the biggest mass killer of all times. And the bad part is he didn't even release the weapon. You probably don't recognize his name but you probably do recognize the Enola Gay. Col. Tibbets was the pilot of the aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb. My respect for him is placed in his single minded devotion to duty and to his country, not in the fact that over 30,000 people just went away in less than a second.

The second is a man who was willing to risk it all to explore the unknown. When Chuck Yeager fired the rockets on Glamorous Glennis in 1947 he broke the sound barrier and became the fastest man in the world. That sound barrier was thought of as a brick wall in the sky. You have to respect the courage it took to slam into it a 700 MPH.

So you see, we can respect part of a person's being without worshiping the total person.

I don't think it makes you a terrible person; you seem to know that Hitler encompassed things you respect or admire as well as things you loathe. I don't know about others but I can handle that.

Answer 4

well, you can respect hitler, but that should NOT make him a hero/someone you look up to. There is no denying that the man was very smart and very well liked, otherwise he would not have convinced an entire nation of such horrible beliefs. And i disagree with that other guy, i think hitler had more power than the pres because of just that - his whole country followed him, and no one likes bush.

Answer 5

I don't think that it's a bad thing. He had very very strong leadership skills. He made so many people believe what he was saying. Although he was a dictator.

But imagine if you could make someone believe messages of anti war/crime/violence etc. If you could make millions of people follow you to try and stop poverty. It would be amazing.

Aslong as you realize his ideas and ways of going about things were wrong.

But I suggest you choose someone else if you have to write a report. Saying Hitler inspires you may cause a lot of trouble.

Answer 6

Hitler unified his country and made his people proud, powerful, and capable. Unfortunately, he had to go batsh*t crazy (syphilis?)and had this thing about genocide against his mother's people.

But he was a very effective dictator/ruler, and if you discount his evil and insanity, was a great ruler. The same could be said of Castro, only more so. 80+ years!

Again, I am most certainly not endorsing fascism or genocide, or those aspects of either ruler, but yea, those guys sure knew/know how to wield the sword, eh?

Bigdeav.... Could the President of the United States order the detention and execution of six million American citizens? He can't convince us to keep illegal Mexicans out!

Answer 7

I would say no, it does not make you a bad person. Because Hitler seen something that he wanted, and did all that he could to get it. It was his dream and he let no one get in his way. If everyone one stuck to their dreams like hitler did, this whole would would be a diffrent place. I don't like a thing that Hitler did, but i am kind of inspired by his drive to full fill his dream no matter the cost.

Answer 8

it dont make you a bad person. a person can be look up to a thief just because he is good at dodging th police, sneaky, and well he is good at what he does. that dont make him a bad person just because he admires a thief. As for you .. you admire hitler because of the power he had over the people and the power that was given to him. You might like power yourself so you can be in control like hitler. that doesnt make you horrible it just makes you well feel and maybe become bossy. (:

Answer 9

Do you not think that the position of the President of the United States is not more powerful than Hitler ever achieved? I would be interested to find someone who truly has/had more power in recent history (past 100+years) than the US President?

Answer 10

Maybe because he had such an influence over people even though he did so many horrible things. You're probably impressed that he was very successful in what he did. You're not horrible