# Is this guy worse than Hitler in your opinion? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 24, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334 "2014-08-24T00:42:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/21 "2014-08-24T05:52:56Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > While Hitler might not himself have been that depraved, he pretty much enabled, ordered and approved of tens of millions of deaths and countless atrocities. Sadly, too many people have no idea how many humans perished during the unpleasantness that was begat by Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/22 "2014-08-24T11:14:01Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Hitler had many children murdered (as well as infants) and in many cases they were tortured before they died. So yeah, Hitler. Guin, Hitler was certainly behind the murder of many children- and a lot of German children who were perceived as genetically not desirable- they may have been tortured but I m unaware of this (unless you include the conditions they were forced to live in). But a psychopath who tortures and humiliates a few people pales compared to a megalomaniac who inflicted untold misery on the world and caused 55 million fatalities (Okay, it can be argued that quite a few would have happened the way the world was going). ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/23 "2014-08-24T12:33:09Z")
> [@chicagowhitesox1173](#): > > Wasn’t Hitler a child rapist too. I think he had an affair with a niece. See, I heard she led him on. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/24 "2014-08-24T13:16:15Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Guin, Hitler was certainly behind the murder of many children- and a lot of German children who were perceived as genetically not desirable- they may have been tortured but I m unaware of this (unless you include the conditions they were forced to live in). Hitler purposefully distanced himself from violence to keep it an abstract - unlike Goebels he never visited bombing victims for instance - so he was not really interested in hearing the specifics of the _die Endlösung der Judenfrage_ beyond knowing Himmler was ‘taking care of it’. My copy of Gilbert’s _The Holocaust_ has some atrocity done towards children almost on every page. Randomly flicking though, p.749; _“Six hundred Jewish boys aged from twelve to eighteen…The Kommandofuhrer and his helper beat the boys horribly to make them undress. His club broke, even, owing to that beating. So he brought another and continued the beating.”_ ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/25 "2014-08-24T13:25:48Z")
Do you have any idea how many ordinary sane people throughout history were sent into war to obey commands to kill babies and did so without a moment’s hesitation? Any person’s mind can be bent to behave in frightening ways, some with intent, and others just circumstantially. Hitler didn’t invent this, was not the first, will not be the last. If Hitler had killed only one baby, you’d never have heard of him. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/26 "2014-08-24T21:01:20Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Guin, Hitler was certainly behind the murder of many children- and a lot of German children who were perceived as genetically not desirable- they may have been tortured but I m unaware of this (unless you include the conditions they were forced to live in). > > But a psychopath who tortures and humiliates a few people pales compared to a megalomaniac who inflicted untold misery on the world and caused 55 million fatalities (Okay, it can be argued that quite a few would have happened the way the world was going). Uh, that was my whole point. (As for torture, surely you’re aware of the hideous medical “experiments” performed at many of the camps?) ---
**Author:** ![protoboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@protoboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/protoboard)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/27 "2014-08-25T22:26:16Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > See, I heard she led him on. Yeah I don’t think Hitler ever raped his niece. I think she actually had feelings for him too. Not sure how old she was, though. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/28 "2014-08-26T02:00:27Z")
Did “this guy” spend 20 years assembling a political and military machine to carry out his objective? Intention and perseverance up the evil quotient significantly. Hitler had those two things in spades. I didn’t watch the video, so I don’t know exactly how this guy stacks up, but I doubt he could match Hitler on those two points. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/29 "2014-08-26T03:35:02Z")
I don’t think it’s possible to torture any one person to death in a way that exceeds Hitler’s cruelty. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/30 "2014-08-26T22:42:37Z")
But Hitler gave the world the Volkswagen Beetle! Not sure exactly how this effects the outcome of this poll… ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/31 "2014-08-27T02:42:53Z")
Little Nemo: > [@](#): > > And doing both isn’t a choice? Like the late Earl Warren? ---
**Author:** ![protoboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@protoboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/protoboard)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/32 "2014-08-30T02:12:00Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I don’t think it’s possible to torture any one person to death in a way that exceeds Hitler’s cruelty. I guess the sexual element might up the ante in some people’s opinion. Not mine though. I mean is gassing someone or starving them to death really any less cruel than raping them? Not really. I think in a way the evil of the person who raped and killed the little girl is more personal than Hitler though, but yeah of course Hitler’s crimes are admittedly still ultimately worse. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/33 "2014-08-30T07:00:34Z")
Hitler, no question. If you have to choose, big picture always trumps little, even something as heinous as this. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/34 "2014-08-30T17:43:27Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I say, “Take a bad thread, and make it better.” Only if you remember to let it into your heart. Then you can start to make it better. Personally? I blame the Judes. ---
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/35 "2014-08-30T18:04:53Z")
Those who want to compare others to Hitler should keep this in mind in order to get some perspective: Not even Hitler was worse than Hitler! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/36 "2014-08-30T22:57:47Z")
> [@Uniqueorn](#): > > Those who want to compare others to Hitler should keep this in mind in order to get some perspective: Not even Hitler was worse than Hitler! Hitler can’t have been that bad - he’s the one who killed Hitler, after all! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/37 "2014-08-30T23:08:40Z")
Is this thread title be more useless, deceptive, and Godwinized than the average thread title? (Hint: Mehhhhhhh… could be.) People, dont click on links to agendas that aren’t clearly marked and denoted the title. This PSA brought to you by Clorox: “We dont make brain - bleach. Please stop trying to create a market.” ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334/38 "2014-09-01T22:36:44Z")
> [@Roland\_Orzabal](#): > > I didn’t watch the video either, but the title is “Guy Rapes 15 Months Old Baby To Death”, which tells you pretty much all you need to know. > > Anyway, still Hitler. Thanks for the missing info that should have been in the first post. ANYWAY He doesn’t need to be worse than Hitler, he’s worse than deserving to live, that’s for sure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-guy-worse-than-hitler-in-your-opinion/696334.md?page=1)