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# He was a fantastic leader as well.
Shame about the whole world dominance thing.

The National Socialist party was pretty fucked up without him, he was reflecting a larger movement, I think it is important to remember that, whilst his actions were evil, he was not 'An Evil Man TM' but just a man (a very personable and popular man) so that we can remember that the terrible activities of his regime were not caused just by a freak of evil, but could easily happen again with another charismatic leader and an unfortunate national feeling.

Also, his moustache was shite.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 20:35, archived)
# Hitler was 'just some guy' was he?
Ok.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 20:41, archived)
# but to be fair to manley
he also said "he was a fantastic leader" (which is true, regrettable as it may be) and "the national socialist party was nothing without him" (which is arguable, but has a good argument backing it) -- so he wasn't just some guy. i think the point is that without hitler there'd have been someone else and roughly the same thing could very well have happened. maybe not the rampant anti-semitism, but the expansionism, the war-mongering, and ultimately a war that seemed inevitable to some even back in 1918 when versailles was signed. (and jews were unpopular across most of europe, so the anti-semitism may well have come up too.)
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 20:53, archived)
# That's Zaphod Beeblebrox.
(twattybanjo, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 21:04, archived)
# i agree with a lot of what you said there
demonising him means it's a lot easier to believe history won't repeat itself, when germany went to war they were the most advanced nation in the west
(I helped save b3ta! sock more tea vicar?, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 20:44, archived)
# Yes, they invented quicktime, for starters
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 20:57, archived)
# and where would we be without .mov files?
(I helped save b3ta! sock more tea vicar?, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 21:04, archived)
# Absolutely and watch us do it again and again with Sadaam or Bin Laden or Simon Cowell.
The last one is only partly a joke, bandwagon jumping is what these people do.
(twattybanjo, Fri 17 Jun 2011, 21:07, archived)