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Originally posted by drunk
Hitler was a sensitive man.
[Edited on 31-7-2003 by drunk]
Originally posted by Leveller
If only Hitler were an alien.
But the sad truth is that he was all too human.
You can blame the German population for supporting him but at the time of his coming to power, the whole world actually admired him. He pulled his country back from the brink of economic disaster and turned Germany into a superpower after being the poor man of Europe.
Too late did the rest of the world wake up to the reality of his future plans.
He was a brilliant politician - but a total monster.
Let's just hope we never allow people like Hitler to gain such power in our world again.
Originally posted by CiderGood_HeadacheBad
If Hitler had had some superior alien race backing him up during the war, or if indeed he had belonged to one, wouldn't the Nazis have won the war quite easily?
Intelligence and government officials faced a delicate moral quandary in 1945 - whether it was worth it to give American homes to men who had invented weapons to kill American soldiers, men who in some cases subscribed to beliefs that hundreds of thousands Americans had died to eradicate. In the end they decided it was, if these men could help the United States defeat the Soviets.
—Christine Gibson is a former editor at American Heritage magazine.