Do you think that Hitler was obviously insane? What would your perspective be on that? How do you know?

Question

what would your evidence for proof to say that be? Could it be that he was just plain evil?

My point is this: Some would say that Adoph Hitler was obviously insane. I might say that Bush is very insane, but who am I to judge? During Hitler's reign of terror people in authority highly respected him and those that took it to him to learn from were the upper eschelites and psychiatrist from America. Once popular social oppinion changed so did our view of what he was doing, what he did was only later seen as insanity. So I hardly think that is a standard to say that someone is insane. As far as what some people go through well many people can go through the same things and will not be seen exactly the same way depending on situations, different diseases affect different people in different ways, many people had syphyllis, they were not all seen as insane. If this is based on popular political oppinion, I think it was not that he was insane, I think he did what he was taught to do and given that opportunity by others, and once it was seen as wrong he was labeled as insane.

Genetics and genocide started in the good ole U es of A, and spread, they did healthy family fairs and thought that they could wipe out the flawed and poor mad humans this way and multiply the rich and famous, but it didn't work that way and they didn't like that. They refused to let some people marry or mate at one point in time as to keep the genes from being passed down. Only thing was this, the upper classes were not having enough babies and the lower classes were having them with abandon and Hitler grew out of that. See Robert Whitaker's, Mad in America, he is a journalist.

Answer 1

No, I don't think Hitler was insane. Hitler, the man, was quite clearly brilliant, or he couldn't have convinced so many people to behave in insane ways. Remember, it was his people that "did the deeds," not Hitler himself. Are they insane?

Answer 2

Well, if you must think he was insane, think about this. He wanted power. TOO much power. everyone has had grudges against Jews since the beginning- they weren't allowed to hold any jobs besides banking, and because they charged interest to get money, people thought they cheated. He realized, especially during a time of world depression, that people wanted someone to blame their troubles on, and that the Jews would be the perfect target. So he joined a group called the German labor party or something that agreed with him. His great talent at being a politics person got him the ruler of Germany's promise that he could become ruler when he died. Once he got power, he had to enforce his beliefs and had started to slowly magnify them- that Germans were the true race, and all others should serve under them. People liked the idea- who wouldn't want to be ruler of the world?- but others didn't. He wanted to be ruler of the world, so he became the "evil" Hitler we know of today.

But he's not evil in my opinion. well, he is, but i wouldn't use the word evil. How about tyrant, cruel, harsh, and heartless? He was too desperate. WAY too desperate fro power, that stupid guy. Just think about it this way- if we didn't get such a huge lesson that none of us should be stupid enough to have to repeat (even though it is happening in places in Africa), what would have happened?

i don't mean to sound FOR Hitler, i just wanted to even the playing fields a little. (in fact, i am against him because i have met a person who was forced to live through the war)

Answer 3

He did not rule the whole world. He ruled Germany and Europe with his ally Mussolini who ruled Italy. The Sun god ruled Japan and Asia. Well, the evidence would be if you read about the Japanese in Asia at that time, you should be reading about Mussolini. And if you read about Mussolini, you should be reading about Hitler too. Except for the Sun god, both Hitler and Mussolini had a past and the past hardened their hearts. I just read a little bit concerning Hitler and some people think that he had a little bit of Jewish blood inside him too. He was brought up in a Roman Catholic background. Mussolini would no doubt be a Roman Catholic too. The Sun god would be worshipping some form of a Buddhist sect. All these men were not men who did not know spirituality. Our past is important. It determines who we are now. Who we are now determines who we will be later. Can we forgive or can we be revengeful ? These men committed immeasurable amount of murders and yet today someone dares to put forward a challenge not just not to acknowledge history, but this person wants to compete with history. Check out this man's background and you can be sure he has a very bad past. Like the Sun god, he wishes to be recognised, to be great and to feel powerful. So dealing with this sort of people takes tact and diplomacy.

Answer 4

Crazy like a fox.

p.s. I would like to point out that, in my opinion, genetics have been in play from the onset of reproduction. Genocide is something each country had added it's own twist to, although we Americans can not make a claim as to it's conception, we are a young country, see: crusades, tzar's, Ivan the Terrible, etc.

Answer 5

i don't know anything for a fact as i never lived with the man and everyone has a different story to say about him how ever what does come out in most peoples tails is that he was regularly high on drugs and in my opinion power and drugs are always a very evil concoction.

Answer 6

Labelling someone as insane dismisses the role of his thought process that lead to his actions.

He was a thinker. He did a lot of it. Prolonged or excessive thinking creates very unusual results.

Answer 7

I think he honostly had some severe mental issues. Not trying to justify what he did, it was wrong and horrible. but i feel bad for him. I dont think he ever was in the right state of mind. he had a hard life growing up. this doesnt give him the authority to kill millions of people and try to take over the world, but like most people, a hard life can deeply change you.

Answer 8

Hitler was just a flawed man, just as everybody is flawed. It was the people that gave him excessive power. It was that power that gave him the potential to hurt many people.

Answer 9

Think about it ..He took on the world to try and rule the whole world. Does that sound insane to you?

Yes he was very much evil so evil that he was insanely stuck on world power. He then took his life.

Answer 10

Does growing up in an unhappy family, Being kicked out of art school, having chemical weapons poisoning in WWI, having degenerative Syphilis in the brain, and surrounded by a bunch of insane people cause you to be insane too? I think it's obvious.