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Originally Posted by minervana  My best guess is that Hitler was a sociopath or psychopath, incapable of feeling empathy or conscience. Many sociopaths are able to learn the social norms and live fairly normal and uneventful lives (even though they're toxic to everyone around them--they don't notice it). We'll never know what would have happened if Hitler had been accepted to art school. Sociopaths also seek positions of power because they think they're the most wonderful thing to exist, better than sliced bread, and they don't want to be subject to all the stifling social norms that "peons" have. They live to dominate others, for their own glory (although they might project that onto something like "The Glory of Our Fatherland"). |
There are other politicians who were like this in our "civilized countries". You just need to see which countries had prisons that work like concentration camps and torture people today, and refuse to bring them to court because it would uncover SS-like cover ops. Look at those who promoted that and you will see others like Hitler who are supposed to be "respectable".
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Originally Posted by Sam988 I think it's very hard to fit Hitler into any stereotype, he was just too crazy. |
A crazy man would be out of touch with reality. He would have launched chemical weapons on UK, but he knew that UK would reply with chemicals too. Hitler was a politician who reacted to reality to achieve power. That's not madness, that's politics. Hitler is portrayed as evil, so people have a distraction and they do not see their own evil politicians.
War is a confrontation of "evil against evil". There are no good guys. Dig enough into history, and you wil discover that.
If Hitler was so evil because he killed jewish, allies were equally evil, because they ignored the request of jewish groups to attack railways that carried such prisoners. They were after politics, not human rights.
Once you know about politics you understand that politics is a game of convenience. But the aboslute relativity of convenience makes politicians to be evil, no matter the country.