[Falcon]

Originally posted by Ghostavo


Him praying...

Nah Hitler had to much chili and was experiancing "mild" indigestion.
 

EDIT: Im wrong it was the grilled cheese sandwich which had Mary's face on it.

[Ford Prefect]

Millions died as a direct result of his policies, not merely Jews but people of nearly every religion on the face of the planet, and nearly every ethnicty. Are these the actions of a religous man? Under what religon? Worship of some god of death and control?

What I get from this is the implication that someone who is religious would not commit such acts. Perhaps I'm completely missing your train of thought, but this seems to be a straightforward argument to me.

[Liberator]

I got stuck on this:

Originally posted by Ford Prefect
Actually the historical community has generally concluded that Hitler was not crazy, and quite frankly it doesn't surprise me.

What kind of sane man deliberately and premeditadedly embarks on a course of action that he know will bring the armies of the world to his doorstep with death on their minds?

[Taristin]

He was actually expecting GB to give into his demands for a little longer. And if they had, he would have had his armies ready. His military was far more advanced than all of ours, and more powerful to boot. He just got into the war sooner than would have been ideal for him.

And he was definately sane.

[Ford Prefect]

What kind of sane man deliberately and premeditadedly embarks on a course of action that he know will bring the armies of the world to his doorstep with death on their minds?

This, my friend, is what humans do.

[Kazan]

hitler also needed to STFU and let his generals run the war -- he was a poor military tactician, but a great political tactician



[it should be noted that i am currently ignoring what he did to discuss specific aspects of him -- if you don't acknowledge that the enemy can be good at things you doom yourself to defeat via arrogance]

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Liberator

What kind of sane man deliberately and premeditadedly embarks on a course of action that he know will bring the armies of the world to his doorstep with death on their minds?

Intelligence != wisdom

[Clave]

Although he was quite clever, I believe Hitler based a lot of his decisions on emotion rather than logic.  Emotion is good for making speeches, but not of great tactical use....

[Flipside]

It is, strangely enough, a mistake made be well-meaning dictators everywhere, that they believe what makes them popular to the majority of those who vote, is what their country needs......

The majority supplies not only the wisdom of the masses, but it's ignorance and superstition as well. If we are not aware of that fact, then nothing can be done to deal with it.

Edit : This is, in large related to your standard Democratically elected leader often being more concerned with staying in office for another term than in any actual long-term wellbeing of the country he is leading.