The Dictator Files: Adolf Hitler

Hitler's favourite animal?

dogs

IMPOSSIBLE: What was Hitler's last name?

It's a term that strongly reflects Hitler's view. I mean, do we really want to call it "Final Solution"?

@Sheriff Unfortunately that wouldn't have been enough for Hitler. Regardless of religious beliefs, Hitler's policies considered anyone with a Jewish grandparent to be "racially Jewish".

Regardless of whether we consider Strauss Jewish or not, Hitler likely would have.

This is incorrect. 1/4 Jewish ancestry equated to “Mixed Race (Second Degree)” and German citizenship was permitted under the Nuremberg race laws. Wagner himself, for the record, was remarkably antisemitic and held quasi-Nazi beliefs long before the Nazis existed.

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Goebbel's propaganda at work...

TinklePork: "Nazism is no different from.....Christianity (which) advocate(s) killing certain groups of people". What a blatant lie! Who do you think you are kidding? There are certain limits on freedom of speech and this statement is so provocative that I suggest it be censored.

Umm—for examples: there were at least eight Crusades and a disputed number of Inquisitions. From History.com “[ It was] easy to paint Indigenous peoples as pagan savages who must be killed in the name of civilization and Christianity.”

@pork It seems that you have no idea what you’re talking about. The fundamental difference between Naziism and other ideologies is that Naziism was predicated on the idea of social Darwinism, that human social groups evolve over time like animal populations, and that weak groups naturally should die out because of competition. Hitler was not just creating an ethnostate. He wanted to forcibly make human groups extinct from the earth, and anyone with undesirable genetics. The Nazis murdered tens of thousands of people with disabilities and chronic health problems. Millions of ethnic minorities died at his hand. And the plan was to expand and focus on the murder of these groups—not to isolate itself from other groups. Comparing Naziism to other ideologies like Christianity is a poor comparison and you offer no evidence of value.

Islam and Christianity don't "advocate" anything. They are demographic groups encompassing everyone who believes "There is one God, and Muhammad was his final prophet" and "There is one God, and Jesus was his son", respectively. Both religions—like all reasonably large religions which have existed for centuries— have uncountably many interpretations, often contradicting each other.

When Jesus said he came baring a sword, did he mean that literally? Many Christians nowadays would say, "No, absolutely not, that was a metaphor." Power-hungry tyrants would say, "Yes that was literal," in order to justify their conquests, but that does not mean that Christianity "advocated" it.

Just a nitpick on my part. I thing Dimby gave a great response to your main argument. Though, I do ultimately agree that Hitler's ideas were unfortunately not extraordinary for the time... (Thankfully many of his contemporaries did not rule over empires.)

It’s also commonly called blitzkrieg, but that wasn’t a German military term. Historians give people, parties, and events convenient names after the fact all the time (World War I?). Maybe it’s ok that historians have given the Nazis a shorthand name that the Nazis did not like. They are Nazis, after all.