Was the Nazis more evil then any other totalitarian regime?

Question

Just because they used mechanized mass extermination methods rather then be run by their anger and rage like most totalitarian regimes that use weapons to kill instead

Answer 1

Whats your point ???

Answer 2

There's no real way to measure "evil" in terms of totalitarian regimes (however, there should be). Having said that, I believe that there were worse regimes out there (not to downplay the Nazi regime by any means); it's just that Hitler got more attention.

Joseph "Uncle Joe" Stalin killed approx. 30 MILLION of his own people in Russia. It didn't matter if someone was atheist, Christian, Jewish, or whatever.

Mao Tse Tsung also had 30 mil. of his own people killed in the name of industrialization in China. Most of them were starved peasants.

I could go on and on. Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Kim Il Sung, and even Kim Jong Il all are dangerously totalitarian. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and a whole host of Middle Eastern leaders are also getting up there. Even Saddam Hussein looked up to Stalin.

You do pose a good question, though.

Answer 3

Hi,

I would have to say yes. In other totalitarian regimes you are allowed to live and carry on so long as you do not make trouble for the government or rock the boat. The Jews on the other hand were singled our for extermination and they could not collaborate, join the army, shout hail Hitler or sing the Horst Wessel song to save themselves.

In bad theocracies throughout history and even Pagan Rome vs Christians you still were at least given the opportunity to recant or renounce your beliefs... the Jews had no such luxury.

Mike

Answer 4

The Nazi regime killed less people than Stalin or Mao. How are you defining evil?

America is the only country to use nuclear weapons against an enemy nation. How are you defining evil?

Humanity as a whole is exterminating approximately 200 living species every single day. Again, how are you defining evil?

Answer 5

Hard question to answer. Most other totalitarian states have used neglect in fairness not always deliberate and not always accidental. The Nazies however where the first and I hope only one to use extermination an an industrial scale. for that reason i think they are the most evil

Answer 6

They killed a lot of people (probably more than any other totalitarian regime) so I would say it was the worst because they did more damage. As for what was more evil, both ways are pretty evil, the only difference was, one was just wild evil full of anger, while the other was more controlled, more intellectually planned, and therefore, more dangerous.

Answer 7

Not really more evil. What there were was more efficient in the mass murder.

Essentially they did for genocide what Henry Ford did for manufacturing. They applied the assembly line idea to their agenda.

Believe me, if the crusaders had the ability to do what Hitler had done and had the modern weapons he had it would have been even worse.

On the other hand, when you look at the amount of mass murder early Christians did with very primitive means and only horses and foot power for mobilization, I would have to say they might have been more evil. Their commitment and the amount of effort they had to exert to exact their mass murder was at least 1,000 times more challenging than the modernized Nazi's.

I believe most would consider the Nazi's to be more evil because there are movies and pictures that keep the vividness of the memory much more acute. The crusades only have words and primitive paintings to convey that memory.

Answer 8

Firstly, do try and use correct English. It's 'WERE the Nazis....' If you are so stupid as to get that wrong it does rather discredit all your other statements.

The Nazis made lampshades and soap, among other things, out of human skin. This is documented, historical fact. I'd say that's pretty vile. They also attempted the genocide of an entire religious group, and they almost managed it. But hey, you seem pretty determined to try and minimise what they did.

Maybe it would be a logical idea for you to actually read up about what the Nazis did to their victims. At least then you will have an informed opinion. As opposed to your view now which are.....well, just silly really.

Answer 9

This is an interesting question. Really the core of your question is which is more evil, Evil by principle or evil by emotional response? A principled mind is more deliberate and stable as apposed to an emotional mind which is volatile. The principled mind relies on the ideals rather than on the feelings, he/she may feel. The emotional mind relies on the feelings, rather than the ideals he/she may hold. I would, after seriously considering the two minds, consider the principled mind more dangerous because it is most unlikely to be persuaded out of an action, whereas, the emotional mind is by nature feeble. So in answering your question, the Nazis of Hitler's regime were more evil because it was their ideology.

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Answer 10

1. They were very much guided by anger and rage.
2. They were not the only ones to use organized and mechanized means of slaughter
3. I really do not have knowledge of any regime more evil than the Nazis

Answer 11

I don't know, the Romans were pretty brutal as were the mongols, the Hun, the Vikings, the Aztecs... communist Russia under Stalin, Sadam Hussain etc. If you refer to the Nazis use of better methods of killing more people, more efficiently then yes the Nazis were the worst. If you refer to sheer brutality then the Romans take the cake.