Was Hitler good or bad? I keep forgetting where poal stands on that topic?
I think he was bad. His role was so short that the badness is deeply polarizing. Lies and wishful thinking beset all of us who try to analyze him.
He did more to bring Germany out of the depression than any leader of any other nation save Roosevelt, who finally yielded to pressure from organized labor.
Well, the only reason that the great depression ended was that Roosevelt died.
Fdr was the great depression, his constant interference prevent the economic recovery.
Hitler was better than that, esp in the short term. In the long run, his economic policies are indistinguishable from any national communists. He hated Jews instead of bougies, but it was the same process of demonize/blame/seize/celebrate. But, he believed that he needed conquest for land, he embraced the Marxist diminishing profits "problem", and converted the state to intense cronyism.
The lies told about him do not diminish this truth. The public sector destroyed the private sector in Germany. There is irony, because he accelerated what his enemies were ultimately doing.
Depends on where you stand on the holo-thing, whether it happened.
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