# Are we being fair to Hitler? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 25, 2010, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-being-fair-to-hitler/547935 "2010-07-25T11:21:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-being-fair-to-hitler/547935/101 "2010-09-06T01:53:34Z")
Another aspect to consider is that Adolph Hitler was purposefully “made for tv” - he utilized propaganda, and gave us video. If we had an equivalent amount of news footage of Ghegis Khan’s massacres, he’d be all over the History Channel, too. It’s really not a conspiracy. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-being-fair-to-hitler/547935/102 "2010-09-06T02:17:17Z")
> [@Atomicktom](#): > > Another aspect to consider is that Adolph Hitler was purposefully “made for tv” - he utilized propaganda, and gave us video. If we had an equivalent amount of news footage of Ghegis Khan’s massacres, he’d be all over the History Channel, too. It’s really not a conspiracy. And if Genghis Khan had his Mongol warriors dressed in snazzy uniforms designed by Hugo Boss . . . ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-being-fair-to-hitler/547935/103 "2010-09-06T12:55:17Z")
> [@Captain\_Midnight](#): > > The media also has written a lot of crazy, untrue stories about Adolf Hitler, but since he is the most hated man in all of history, no one would dispute it, no matter how outlandish the lie is. I find the nazis boring, myself; and as a monarchist think they are repulsive\*, futile and decadent: however, by now the only interesting fact about them is that _any lie can be told about them_ for good or ill. No matter how insane — think UFOs, Agartha, Freemasonry, Thule Society, Hitler was a jew/communist/escaped\*\*, satanism, use of electrified metal floors to reduce victims to ashes, had a great economic system, were efficient, etc. etc. — the incompatible and nonsensical beliefs will find true believers credulously lapping it up. All of which says less about the nazis, and more about the average person. Worst of all, the mental use of their undoubted atrocities is shorthand for both assurance that ‘I am **Good** — by virtue of _not_ being one of these demonized others’, and an excuse for anything we want to do: 'We hate nazis ( /muslims, /communists, etc. ) _therefore_ anything done by us is morally justifiable. \*Ödön von Horváth write a novel in the '30s calling Hitler ‘The Greatest Proletarian’. \*\* **[Hitler fled to a Nazi base on the moon](http://greyfalcon.us/restored/German%20Moon%20Base%20Alpha.htm)** _cries_ From, **[The Canadian — Gulf Oil spill renews theories that Hitler is still alive](http://lecanadian.com/2010/06/24/gulf-oil-spill-renews-theories-that-hilter-is-still-alive/)** David Icke’s website has made reference to the Gulf Oil Spill happening on April 20, 2010. That was on Hitler’s birthday. The Gulf Oil Spill occurring on Hitler’s birthday can easily be dismissed as a coincidence. But, David Icke’s website points out that Hitler’s birthday and the Gulf Oil Spill catastrophe was on the 111th day of the year. David Icke’s website also points out that the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 was 111th day from the end of the year. David Icke’s website also details other related mathematical inter-relationships between events. Is it possible that Hitler is still alive and would like everyone to know this to demonstrate his superior intelligence? I imagine that numerous muslims in Pakistan, where they share with many hindus in the Sub-Continent, a tremendous appreciation and admiration of the Fuhrer, will nod their heads wisely and say stranger things have happened… The fact is in future history that the Western distaste for Hitler — and nazism — may not survive the collapse of Western power. On the other hand, marxist-leninism won’t be returning any time soon. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-being-fair-to-hitler/547935/104 "2010-09-06T12:55:19Z")
I think Dolly from _[the Family Circus](http://a.imageshack.us/img696/2763/159zf.jpg)_ has already answered this ---
**Author:** ![Helena\_Handbasket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Helena\_Handbasket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena_Handbasket)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-being-fair-to-hitler/547935/105 "2010-09-13T15:37:18Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > I think Dolly from _[the Family Circus](http://a.imageshack.us/img696/2763/159zf.jpg)_ has already answered this Why is he reading Mein Kampf _to his childre_n??? 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-we-being-fair-to-hitler/547935.md?page=5)