Do you think Adolf Hitler is the most evil man to have ever lived in the history of the Earth?

Question

Well since he pretty much started WWII by invading Poland, and his most cruel, cold-blooded act of all, the Holocaust. Eventhough the Nazi's are long gone, whenever the Nazi symbol is shown or drawn, people take the strongest, immediate action against it. Are the Nazis and Hitler hated that much?, the most hated group of people of all time?, well I hate them too for what they did but I do not overreact when I see a Nazi symbol or hear someone say "Sieg Heil!", but were Hitler and the Nazis that evil?, like are they hated that much?

Answer 1

Quite probably, but not for lack of *serious* competition.

Answer 2

No I don't think he is the most evil man. The reason the western world reacts the way it does to the nazis and Hitler is because the jews keep talking about and discussing them. They make movies, write books, put up web pages, write letters to the editor etc.
What is more interesting is how many books have been written about the Waffen SS especially, but the Third Reich in general. There is a huge amount of interest in that time and the people who lived it despite all the talk about how horrible they were.
One day we'll know the truth of what really went on; there are still secrets from WW2 that governments around the world keep. Until they are released we cannot be sure of anything that is written about that time period.

Answer 3

It's all relative really.

The reason why the Nazis and Hitler are used as an example is because their misdeeds were comparatively close in history and most of their actions were documented on film. The Romans, for instance, killed and enslaved millions during the course of their empire but they have slipped away into ancient history and their atrocities are largely forgotten today. Stalin, and Communism, however, killed many more humans than the Nazis ever did but they will never have the same infamy as that of Hitler and the Nazis.
Also the Hammer & Sickle emblem will never be banned or reviled, as the swastika has been, but it is still an icon of revulsion for many who suffered beneath it's shadow.

Answer 4

Confused,
CowboyDoc, Amandasu, above me and several others have alluded to some interesting alternatives for your consideration.

Joseph Stalin was as bad if not worse than Hitler. In my view they both (Stalin and Hitler) are on the same level of evil.

The Nazi's were evil and all you have to do is read anything to cover that time frame. Information is out all over the place, libraries, bookstores, websites, etc. There is NO Government hiding anything what Nazi's did - regardless of what some would tell you.

Gerry

Answer 5

Well, I haven't read about all the evil men in the history of the Earth. Hitler was just one of the most recent ones, and one who lived in a time of fairly global communications.

It's important to remember that Hitler would not have been able to do all that he did without a great deal of help. Not everybody that helped him was evil, either.

What's always chilled me most since I started reading about the Third Reich as a teenager (when an actor I admired played Hitler on TV) is that there are no guarantees that something very similar couldn't happen where I live and when I live. I'd find it pretty easy to believe from my own experience that plenty of people just as evil as Hitler are living in the USA right now. With luck, education, and vigilance, no one will follow them.

I believe the lady earlier meant "psychopath", not "sycophant".

Answer 6

To the a**hole that said Vlad the Impaler was the mos evil person in history. Maybe if you read a little more and pay a little attention in class you would see that if it wasn't for Vlad the Impaler half of Europe would have been conquered by the Ottoman Turks and history would have been changed for ever. He only impaled thieves, murderers and turks so that Valachia, his country in Eastern Europe would be a safe, independent country. A Venetian merchant visited his country and said that it was so safe and rich that you could put a bag of golden coins in the middle of the road and nobody would dare to steal it for as long Vlad was ruler. Turks feared his, his people loved him ...he was hard but he was right. All those people that think he was a vampire are people who have their head stuck in their a** because of Bram Stocker the bloke who wrote Dracula...he was not a hiostorian, nor was he intending to write the truth he just wrote a book...all those Hollywood movies with vampires quote his book as if it was the word of God.

Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Ili Amin (not Armin =)) ) and countless others were evil because they were paranoid and had dreams of grandeur for them and thir country. They were mentally sick and most of them did not have the intellectual strength to realize what they are doing (they were stupid as s***)...well maybe except Hitler. You cannot judge whick one of theme was more "evil"...just let them be in Hell and be happy they aren't around anymore...maybe you'll have the time to spot contemporary tyrants... before they do any more damage. Strength through unity and peace!

Answer 7

of course not. most of his evil deeds were acted out under the influence of methamphetamine administered by his doctor and he also had parkinson's. many believe his doctor was an agent of the british sevret service. hitler has become the cliche for evil. most conc. camp detainees died from starvation due to allied bombing of supply lines, anyway. besides,what would history channel be without a special on the nazis every 4 hours to administer undeserved guilt.they'd actually have to work for a change. quite droll. start looking in to the israeli prime ministers. many of them were rapists, child killers, etc. idi amin was way worse than hitler. or plenty of south american dictators.stalin's jewish communist bolshevik regime probably killed twice as many people as hitler.hitler wasn't any worse than any of these people-just more efficient, and he had a lot of help from big time americans and british as well.wake up, and stop watching so much television.

Answer 8

Some may not agree but, J. Stalin would be my choice for what he did to his own countrymen. Read Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" and his other works.
Stalin was considered the leader of his people but, in actuality he killed off over twenty million in his rein through his prison camps on the Gulag in the far North.
Even today, they're not sure just how many died by his hand.

Hitler was a known madman and, everyone knew what was coming, they didn't with Stalin until it was over.

Answer 9

Dishonorable mention should go to
Caligula
Nero
Elizabeth Bathory (I know she's a woman..)
Cesare Borgia
Attilla the Hun
Ivan the Terrible
Agamemnon
Henry VIII
Torquemada (Spanish Inquisition)

Answer 10

Hitler is not the man with most victims,Stalin is,even though his victims were not always direct.
He killed,directly and indirectly a grand total of 36 mil people.
The russian mentality at the time was:"we have enough men, no need to make savings".So,he starved the people,he sent them to labour camps,he sent to Siberia whoever he felt like sending,he killed anyone of whom he thought to be not such an eager comunist,he killed any political adversary.
But maybe he was not the most evil persone in the history of the planet.Maybe the most evil is you or me,or anyone else traped in the cage of respectability,someone who will never kill,or hurt someone,but someone who will keep hate in his/her heart.So,we will never know.
But the greatest murderer of all times is Stalin.


UUUh,i'm with u Liviu T

Answer 11

Yes he is because he ordered the killing of all Jews , especially children . He was afraid if children remained alive they would seek revenge on the German people. As the result anestimated 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered.I am A Holocaust Survivor . I was then a teenager. Now I moderate the yahoo ! group Remember_The_Holocaust which you are all welcome to join. It has much information AND MEMBERS , MANY NOT JEWISH , ARE A THINKING GROUP OF PEOPLE FROM ALL 5 Continents. Hitler was appointed Chancellor next month 75 years ago,. My parents left shortly thereafter Germany to Belgium expecting to return after Hitler was removed in as they thought a couple of years. they left me in care of a childless aunt and uncle. I escaped in time just a few weeks before Kristallnacht. Had i not i would be dead as my aunt and uncle were deported and mirdered. i would have died with them in the extermination camp of Sobibor. They killed cjhildren also over 1million to 1.5 estimated Jewish children. hereis what you could find in the group Remember_The _Holocaust among other similar posted material. Post subject: Belaya Tserkov
Byelaya Tserkov (Bialacerkiew) is a Ukrainian village, 70 km from Kiev. In August 1941 the Feldkommandant of Byelaya Tserkov requested the intervention of Sonderkommando (SK) 4a to kill its Jewish inhabitants. The extermination orders were received by a unit (`Teilkommando') of SK 4a which was under the command of SS-Obersturmfiihrer August Hafner. The unit consisted of regular members of SK 4a and a platoon from 3rd Company, SS Special Operations Battalion (Waffen-SS) under the command of SS-Oberscharfiihrer Jager. Between 8 and 19 August the Waffen-SS platoon - with the help of the Ukrainian militia - executed several hundred Jewish men and women by firing-squad. Scene of the crime: a rifle-range near the barracks (see witness report).
The children of those murdered were initially locked up in a building on the edge of the village. On the evening of 19 August some of the children were transported in three full lorry-loads to the rifle-range and killed there. Some ninety children were kept back in wretched conditions. The following day, 20 August, the Catholic military chaplain, Ernst Tewes, and his Protestant colleague, Gerhard Wilczek, were having lunch together in the mess. Both were soldiers of officer rank. A distraught noncommissioned officer came and pleaded with Tewes (who was ordained a bishop after the war) to take `remedial action'.
The military chaplains visited the children and informed the divisional chaplain of 295th Infantry Division (ID), who was in the area for a few days. Then the Catholic divisional chaplain, Dr Reuss, (who was ordained bishop in Mainz after the war) and his Protestant colleague Kornmann (presumed dead), together with Tewes and Wilczek, visited the awful scene. In the afternoon divisional chaplains Dr Reuss and Kornmann reported to the Generalstabsoffizier of the division, Lieutenant-Colonel Helmuth Groscurth (killed in action) on their visit. What follows - the actions of the Wehrmacht up to the officially condoned murder of the children on 22 August - can be! found in the passages in the group Remember_The_Holocaust