HE WAS AN EXTREME NATIONALIST JINGO THAT BELIEVED IN FLAG WAVING BELIGERENT PATRIOTISM AND BUILD UP OF THE MILITARY, THE SAME AS REPUBLICANS DO TODAY.\n\nTO THE NEOCONS; ADMIT THAT YOU AND HITLER ARE OF THE SAME ILK.  I KNOW YOU ARE ASHAMED OF IT, BUT ADMIT IT ANYWAY!!!
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Anyone who has taken any type of Poly Sci class whatsoever should know that Hitler was a FASCIST.  This is on the RIGHT side of the spectrum, NOT the LEFT.  \n\nGet it straight!!! I don't care who you voted for!!\n\nStalin: Evil Communist (LEFT)\nHiter: Evil Fascist (RIGHT)
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Hilter didn't just hate the Jews and black people, he hated Catholics, German's who helped people flee from his wrath, people with disablities (even if you walked with a limp). If you even had a sixteenth of Jewish blood in you, you were consider Jewish. According to the Holucust Mesume in Washington DC, he wanted to create the ulimate race of Germans (blonde hair and blue eyes). Hilter was an interesting chararter. A bad apple that's for sure. He was brought to power by promising the people of Germany food and bring the country's economy back up. After WWI German suffered greatly from debts and such. So of course they would listen to the devil himself if he made such promises. I hope this answers your question.
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Hitler's government was Nazism or National Socialist. Fascism is the combining of corporations and government. So you could say we are heading towards fascism. Now before anybody attacks me for this answer, give me one law that has been passed by our government that benefits we the people not he benefit of corporations. Good luck on that!\nHere's a post that I had posted earlier on Yahoo answers. \n Lets look at the similarities between Bush and Hitler. Both were elected/selected, Bush by the Supreme Court and Hitler when Hindenburg died. They both had terrorist attacks on their country, Bush 9/11 and Hitler the Reichstag's fire. Both ignored warning of the impending attacks. Both have/had conspiracy theories about thier involvement. Both blamed foreign ideologues. Both made speeches right afterwords. Within weeks Bush had the Patriot Act and Hitler had his "Decree on the Protection of People and State". Both had a 4 year sunset provision put on them to get them passed. Both had protesters arrested or put in free speech zones away from the place where they were appearing. Both use the word Homeland to describe the nation. Both claim/claimed to be Christian. Both formed a new agency to consolidate various independent police, intelligence and border agencies together. Bush got Homeland Security and Hitler got the Central Security Office. Both have an SS, Bush has the Secret Service as a National Police Force and Hitler had the SchutzStaffel. Both had detention camps built. Both attacked coutries that hadn't attacked them. Both brought in industry and forged an alliance, and they got former executives of the nation's biggest companies into government positions. Both use government to empower corporations and reward the society's richest individuals, privatize much of the commons, stifle dissent, strip people of constitutional rights, and create an illusion of prosperity through continual and ever-expanding war. \nHistory seems to be repeating!
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Neo-Nazis are called like that because they are 'New' Nazis (Nazis were followers or members of the 'Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei' = NSDAP of Adolf Hitler). The Germans call everybody a NEO NAZI that was born after the end of World War II, or the end of the Nazi Regime 1945, following the same political views as Adolf Hitler. The ideology behind 'Nazis' is called Fascism and is not at all limited to a political direction. Fascists are 'Nationalists' caring only for citizens of their own Nationality. They oppose immigration, homosexuality, arts, women's rights and intellectual thinkers. The individual means nothing, no civil rights are granted and is to serve the will of the leaders. George Orwell's 1984 is a very good book for that matter. The worst thing under a Fascist rule are 'Concentration Camps' in which all people end up that don't follow the leaders or don't reflect their vision of how things should be.
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IT'S A MATTER OF PRIDE, THEY ARE ASHAMED THEY MADE A MISTAKE BY VOTING FOR HIM, BUT THEY ARE ASHAMED TO ADMIT THEY MADE A MISTAKE.  SO THEY DEFEND HIS CRIMES AND INCOMPETANCE ON A DAILY BASIS TO COVER FOR THEIR OWN SHAME.\n\nI'D HATE TO BE A NEOCON AND BE IN SUCH A POSITION.
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I vote for hitler. I mean, hitler is the most famous person of all time nonreligious. Not like I would vote for him. He wasn't even republican.
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Not that those clowns are as competent as the Germans, but there is a "Mein Kampf" analogy.  Ten years before he did it, Hitler said "I am going to take over Europe and kill all the Jews."  People like Chamberlain basically said "you don't really mean that."  Oh yes he did.\n\nIf you want to be some kind of moral relatavist like Chrissy Hynde and say that we are no better than them, then fine (it's really not).   But if I may quote Winston* "If self preservation is an instinct you possess, pretty please, with sugar on top, clean the fvcking car."\n\nGood, bad,or indifferent, these people want to kill us.  They especially want to kill people like Chrissy Hynde, which is funny.  We need to kill them before they kill us, hopefully after they kill Chrissy, but those animals are so indiscriminate that you really can't count on that.\n\n*Wolf, not Churchill
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I believe they're already employing this tactic, planksheer. Honestly, much of the ANP playbook appears to have been lifted from goebbels himself. This administration's version of goebbels is clearly karl "piggy-man" rove, though I confess his physical appearance owes more to the rotund göring. In any case, the parallels are clear to all but the indoctrinated and deceived.\n\nForgive me for taking this liberty, planksheer, but I really must defend you against the spurious attacks I've observed in some of the later posts to your question. For the record, planksheer served his country (the US of A) as a naval officer during the Vietnam War, which is a damn sight more than most of his detractors can say about their own military service (or lack of same). So pray do be more careful about smearing others with vitriolic personal attacks when clearly short of the actual facts. It is so very bush league (pun intended).\n\n*Note for Mellencamp: Well, considering I have an IQ of 152 and am a History scholar, I feel completely assured my knowledge of the history of this country far surpasses yours (as does my grammar). It might interest you to know that, on a lark, I actually took the US citizenship exam and got a perfect score at the same time my father took his and became a US citizen (he was born in the UK). It goes without saying that I have nothing to prove to anyone of your ilk, nor does planksheer, whose patriotism you have no right to impugn either. You clearly have no respect for others whose views are more enlightened than your own and I am thus not in the least bit interested in engaging in a pissing contest with you. So I'm afraid you'll have to go find another playmate to take out your embarrassingly impotent frustrations on. Good grief, no wonder so many around the world despise Americans.
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1st off, your name sucks, Hitler was much better than bush.\n2nd, bush gets no respect because he usually looks worse than that, and is a complete IDIOT!!
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I have to say no. Hitler was nobody's patsy. His ruthless path to power was strewn by more murders and say what you will, he had an ethos. I think an interesting perspective is that too many people took George Bush seriously and FAR too few took Hitler seriously.  Hitler, a combat veteran decorated witth the Iron Cross as a dispatch runner knew far more about war than GWB ever would. I am not seeing a GWB cult, ( or MUCH of one) , Hitler on the other hand was larger than life and delusional - ( bush is also delusional however ) , and I don't think that HATE is at the core of Bush's being, nor do I see the gleam of fanaticism and meglomania in Bush.   Could Bush ever create anything even close to National Socialism ? \nDid Bush rescue America from a depression and put its citizens to work and does the nation swear alliegance to Bush? \nAlso, can you entertain the idea of Hitlers father having to rescue the Nazi Party / Hitler admin from its foreign policy failures. \nBush is a " LITE" dictator wannabe.  He won't hold a candle to Napoleon, Louis the XIV, Cromwell, Tameraline, Fra Savronola, Mussollini, Julius Ceaser, or even Huey Long. \nHe is a different kind of political insect.   In a way I think his dad is beyond miffed at how badly his son performed when Bush 41 gave Bush 43 the presidency.  Yes there are some parallels but I just don't see the raging narcicissm and egotistical mania of Hitler in Bush. I would love to see the Neocon archetects of his presidency held accountable.  Good question.
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Hitler famously said "I decide who is Jewish or not." In this case he was being purely pragmatic - the man he was referring to was a General in the Luftwaffe, although there were at least two Generals in the Wehrmacht who were of Jewish origin. \n\nHitler may have been an insane racist but in some circumstances he was a pragmatist. On the other hand it can be argued that his antisemitism was purely a cynical political strategy to unify the German people by playing on Germany's history of anti-Jewishness. However, history shows that Hitler's personal feelings towards Jews verged on the pathological and lead directly to the Holocaust.
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Adolf certainly was a complex individual with many demons antagonizing a small brain.  He probably should have stuck to his earlier career, that of a house painter. The German army, during WWI didn't think much of him either, he made it to lowly corporal when, during war time, rank is relatively easy to make.  All you need do is stay alive and have half a brain.  We all know that he stayed alive.\n \nAdolf seemed to have relationship problems with women, it is my guess that he was a closet homosexual (not that there's anything wrong with it)but knew that his ambitions in politics would grind to a screeching halt if anyone knew.\n\nHis hatred for Jews is a mystery, except that he disliked their business practices and monopoly of many of the professions.  Speculation has it that he too had Jewish blood (bite your tongue).\n\nHis war time strategy was horrendously bad, especially his collaberration with astrology.  This was Germany's downfall militarily.  This man would overrule his generals and admirals on strategic matters that would end in failure.  Those failures were demoralizing and costly to the Third Reich and eventually brought Germany to defeat in WWII.  The best idea Hitler ever had was the Volkswagon.  That was even better than the 'chicken in every pot'.  I believe this was coined by FDR, during the depression.\n\nHitlers biggest strength was his fiery oratories.  He had the ability to encite the German people in a time when they needed a way out.  Even they couldn't read between the lines on where this guy was taking them, and by the time they realized it, it was probably too late.  He knew that anti-semnitism ran high amongst the Germans, and he played on that for all it was worth.  This should be a warning to all, in a democracy such as ours.  All men are created equal!  Don't ever forget that, and do not let it get in your way when deciding equality, politics, professions, religion or any other debate that you may run in to, in your lifetime.
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There was no Nazi party before Hitler. Hitler was in it from the beginning.\n\nhttp://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/party.htm
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Cause they haven`t had world war 3 yet and if he can instigate it, then he will go down in history as being a reincarnation of good ol` Adolf the Hitler. Plus he gets to kill the children of the middle class. What a bargain for a lying,stinking,useless,piece of rat manure.
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While he was an outstanding general and military leader, he wrote down his tactics in "Infantry Attacks" and never deviated much from them.  Patton read this book, and others Rommel wrote, and used that knowledge to defeat him.\n\nRommel also tried to get Hitler to see reason and support the North African Campaign.  Luckily for the free world, Hitler ignored him.\n\nHmmm...interesting view on my answer below.  And your sources are?  Yes, Rommel was overrated and Guderian (The "Difficult Subordinate") was probably the better general, as was von Manstein.  Rommels "currying favor" did little for him in the end though.  And all officers on the General Staff had to be party members.  \n\nAnd Patton never used combined arms?  Odd, no tactical studies I did of him showed that and I've been an Army Armor officer for years.  He did have a love for the saber and horse CAV, but was able to give that up.  Knowing how your enemy fought was the source of Patton's quote, not fighting as Rommel did.  It took a while for the US to catch up to the Germans, but, unlike other nations fighting Germany, we actually tried to mimic combined arms warfare.  Today we have prety much mastered it and are expending ever more on those concepts.\n\nLuckily for the world, Hitler was a terrible general and Germany always seemed to lose when Hitler got involved in Operational levels of war.  Unfortunatly for the Germans, but fortunatly for us, the German army, at all levels, really screwed up their LOG tail and issued so many varients of tanks that mechanics couldn't keep up. \n\nI can list book after book supporting views what I wrote.  You can still have your opinions, just please stop coughing at me, it's rude.
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Well, just to help you a little here, Hitler did not believe in Jesus.  He felt Christianity was weak and didn't want his power being challenged by religious authorities.  (If the basis of your question is, "Is it alright to kill those who don't agree with you?" I hope you know the answer already.) \n\nHitler wanted to exterminate every Jew on earth, not change their minds.  His reasons for killing Jews (which is part of what makes the Holocaust so remarkable) had nothing to do with their beliefs.  It was all about their birth, and many secular and converted Jews were murdered alongside their orthodox counterparts.\n\nYou should really read up more on the holocaust.  It is possibly the worst thing in human history, and the only thing we can do to prevent something similar is to know how it happened the first time.\n\nP.S.- Here's the really tough question you might want to ponder; After ordering the murder of twelve million innocents and waging a wart to conquer the earth, if Hitler had recanted on his death bed, would G-d have forgiven him.
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We remember so that we don't let history repeat itself.  Hitler was a great Orator who used his ability of speach giving to build up the Nazi party and eventually take control of Germany.  He was a Corporal in World War I and was devistated by the German Loss of the war as well as the terms of the surrender. He built an army with youth clubs and an Airforce out of Flying Clubs as Germany was restricted as to the number in each by the treaty of Versalles.  He built a strong organization of Secret Police and held a real tight reign on the people of Germany as well as the Annexed areas of Europe that were conceeded to him.\n\nOf course World War II started in 1939 when Hitler took Poland in about 3 weeks time and turned around and marched through France in 6 weeks.  The Europe war lasted until May 8, 1945.  The U.S. fought with Japan until September, 1945.\n\nBefore and during World War II Hitler dreamed of a society led by the German Aryan Race, he set out a plan to help produce more purity in Europe with his "Final Solution".  He was responsible for the genocide extermination of 6,000,000 Jews, as well as many Gypsies and Jehovah's Witnesses. He used most of these people before their extermination as slave labor for his war machine.  He was so adamant about the extermination of the Jews that he used resources such as Rail Roads that could have moved troops to the Russian front to move Jews to Extermination Camps.  All of the "Concentration Camps" also required much manpower that could have been put to use in the war effort.  By the end of the War Hitler was ordering troops that did not exist into battle.  He was quite ill with Parkinsons Disease and extremely paranoid of all germs and of course plots against his life.  He died by committing suicide so that he could not be taken alive.  His vast empire had collapsed into 3 square blocks when he finally died and the Germans continued to fight for a little over a week after his death.\n\nHitler needs to be remembered because of his "Racist" ideas and where they lead.  We need to remember what happened to all the people who died in what was probably the largest effort at genocide to date.  He built killing factories to do this work and it must be remembered so that we do not ever allow this thing to happen again in this world.  I believe that his failures in life were probably his greatest influence.  He spent around 2 years in prison after a failed revolt in 1923, during which time he wrote "Mein Kampf" in which he outlined his plans for Germany and his Master Race. The sales of this book made Hitler a Millionaire, which allowed him more time to spend on Politics and not have to worry about how to pay the bills.  His greatest Role Model was Benito Mussulini the Fascist Dictator of Italy, however later in the war it was Hitler that was the role model for Mussulini.\n\nThis is one page in history that we never want to see repeated and that is why we must remember Hitler.