Now we KNOW Hitler was a RightyFollow

Pat Buchanan's defense of Hitler

Poor Adolph. He only ever wanted to save the Germans in Gdansk. But the mean "junta" in Poland refused to give it back. And, worse, the foolish government of Britain was trickified into allying with Poland! But Hitler, poor sad Hitler, he tried so very hard for peace and he even let the British go at Dunkirk! What a great guy, huh?

Besides being entirely built on a strawman ("Hitler wanted to invade the whole world so showing he once asked for peace means he didn't really want to invade the world... I win!") the comments section (you need to click back to page 1) is surreal. The people saying "Hitler was an imperialistic jerk" are told they're stuck on the "old" way of history and not the fresh exciting new ideas Buchanan brings to the table and someday we'll all view Buchanan as the historic visionary he is.

Hitler was not the worst person in history. There were plenty of absolutely cruel emperors and rulers in history, in medieval times for example, who tortured people and killed for amusement. Check out all those medieval torture devices in the museum. Hitler is a wonderful guy compared to some of these historical figures.

He only seems to be worst person anyone can think of right now because he is relatively recent, and many people who lived through WW2 are still alive. Give it a few generations and only historians will have heard about him. I reckon Hitler is overrated. IMO he does not rank too high in the cruel or evil scale of all time. But he ranks very high in his war capabilities, I'll give him that.

Perhaps if he were born a lot earlier, in the days when conquering other countries was acceptable and expected, while burning down rival villages was common to all factions, he would have been a legend like Genghis Khan for example.

But in this day and age, causing civilian casualty and suffering, especially intentionally, through war is understandably considered criminally wrong, and he is guilty of a lot of that.

What on earth does that have to do with the causes of the Second World War and the asinine notion that Hitler only ever wanted peace?

He's perfecting his strawman approach.

I've already indicated what my view is. Most people reckon he is evil. Full stop. Buchanan tries to say he is actually a nice bloke defending his people from the rest of the world. My view is somewhere in between. Both sides of the debate have facts that support their view, so he is not outright wrong, nor is he a great guy. His actions would have been judged differently were it carried out in a different period in history. He could have been regarded a war hero, but at this time, he is regarded an evil war criminal. There is no definite right or wrong about him, he was just born in the wrong time period.

You're not born into the wrong time period, you are born into a time period you need to adapt to.

The Jews made him do it.

I did, but i'm still waiting on their reply. Which is just rude as I'm sure they have more than enough time on their hands.

It's not like Hitler is different than anything else in this regard. I could dither about anyone and find redeeming or mitigating qualities in anything, but I don't think that should have much effect on ultimately judging people.

If you're going by the numbers, he wasn't even the worst in his generation. It's not really about the numbers, though, is it?

Anyone seen Hitler's new career btw?

I really don't know if it's really all that effective, considering the increasing number of people being in favour of Hitler these days.

Also, he's a pretty good singer.

Hitler was a vegetarian, so he cant be all bad eh?

And Stalin?

Well Stalin was on our side, so all the people whose deaths he was responsible for, the death camps/marches, the retributive slaughters and his re-invasion of Poland, for example, can be excused, because after all, it was for the good of the rest of us.