A friend of mine thinks Hitler is a genius. I'm curious.
2007-12-14 22:25:58 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
somewhere.lost.in.time: Thank you for the insult, but I promise you I read more books than the average grade school teacher could even claim. I never said what he did wasn't disgusting. But wrap your mind around how he did it. How he turned something so vile and malicious into something as commonplace as office work. If you don't try to understand how something so catastrophically vile could happen in a "modern world" then how can we understand how to prevent it?
2007-12-15 13:59:40 · update #1
J.S.: I agree. And again, I don't necessarily agree that he was a genius. I don't know if by putting "friend" in quotations, you were suggesting that the idea conformed with my own thoughts. They don't.
2007-12-15 14:02:23 · update #2
He had to be more than ordinary. He was a fair picture painter, gave it up and joined the german army and spent two years therein as a runner on the western front; where the life expectancy of a runner was about two weeks if he was lucky. He received german citizenship and was assigned by the german army to keep an eye on an obscure political party by joining it and keeping a low profile. Since his definition of a low profile was slightly different he went on to lead the party and try taking over the rest of the world. Many people hitched their wagons to his star and did terrible things; since he is dead it is easier to blame all misdeads on him; after all, he is not here to point out who really did what.
2007-12-15 03:37:55 · answer #1 · answered by acmeraven 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell your friend that Hitler WAS not a genius - tell your friend a politician who incorporates his political opposition into his government is much more of a genius than the one who incarcerates and exterminates them in concentration camps.
Ernst Thalmann - April 16, 1886 - August 18, 1944
A statement is not impossible to retract.
I apologise for my misinterpretation.
2007-12-15 01:06:15 · answer #2 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genius as a politician -- absolutely. Genius as a military tactician -- absolutely not. Hitler was the first to embrace radio as a tactical weapon. Former Prez. Reagan and Rush Limbaugh pale when compared to Adolf Hitler when it comes to the invisibility that radio broadcast offers.
2007-12-14 22:35:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-11 08:12:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great at stirring the imagination and pride of demoralised Germans but fighting a war on 2 fronts was disasterous.
2007-12-14 22:49:22 · answer #5 · answered by Tuxedo 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A polymath. He had the ability to master many fields of human endeavor, and to be innovative in them.
Too bad he used that ability for such awful purposes.
2007-12-14 22:47:07 · answer #6 · answered by Hera Sent Me 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
of course he was a genious. he was also the most idiotic man i have ever read about. selfish, retarded, inane, but to achieve what he did, terrible as his actions were, there had to be a brain in there somewhere
2007-12-15 00:33:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they say there is a fine line between genius and insanity
2007-12-14 22:31:46 · answer #8 · answered by ole man 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes of course
2007-12-14 22:34:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
He was a genius. you asked how he was a genius. He got more victory in his life.
2007-12-14 23:11:33 · answer #10 · answered by kannan s 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋