I lost 16 followers because of Hitler

[Lacky]

So I got asked the question on Twitter via ASK.FM

Was Hitler a successful leader?

Now there's plenty of ways I could have tackled the question. I could have even included a joke or two but I answered the question with full honesty.

I replied Hitler was a great, successful leader He turned Germany from a ruined, fragmented country into one of the most formidable powerful countries around in such a short period of time.

He wrote first law of protecting animal rights in Germany, He fighted Breast Cancer and Lung Cancer, Nazi scientists were the first to definitively link lung cancer and cigarette smoking thanks to Hitlers Anti Tobacco campaigns.

Organized crime was brought to 0% during his time in charge.

The first motorways in the world were built in Germany, which basically everyone copied. Hitler eliminated unemployment throughout Germany, and saved the country from financial meltdown.

First jet fighters, bombers, First Stealth Planes, first stealth submarine, first rockets, nuclear weapons, orbitals bombers, first helicopters were all developed by Third Reich.

So what I'm saying is Do you think Hitler was a successful leader?

 

[Farooq]

Successful? Yes

A docuhe bag? The biggest one

 

[Zach]

Don't get me started on this topic holy mother fucking balls

 

[Tchman58]

He ended up killing himself...not to successful iyam.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Besides the fact that he didn't like a lot of people and wanted them dead, Hitler was an amazing and amazingly productive leader.

 

[Zach]

He commanded what was one of the best armies in the history of the world, if not that. I honestly think if he didn't attack Russia, they would have won the war. They weren't ready for the conditions of Russia and the Russians used their familiarity of the land to dominate the Germans. They really underestimated the Russian's ability and because of that they got whooped all over Russia, including Stalingrad and some other place. If Hitler had kept his whole army and tried to not fight a two front war (taking on Russia in the east and UK and US in the west) then things might have been different. They were heavily outnumbered once US and Russia were fighting a full war with all their supplies.

Looking past his anti semitism, Hitler really was a good leader with great leadership qualities that should be expected of high rankin officers today. The problem is that people just look at him and see him as the Jew hating guy but they don't look past that.

 

[Tchman58]

I think a good leader leads by example and earns the respect of his people. A lot of Nazi Germany did not respect or even like hitler. They did what he said out of fear. To me that's not being a good leader. That's being a good bully. I am a coach and teacher. If I get my athletes to do what I want because I scare them, I might have a successful season, but I was not a good leader IMO. Same thing goes for kids behaving in my classroom. If they behave because they are scared of me, they don't think of me as a leader, they think of me as a dictator. It can work temporarily, but does not result in a good leader.

 

[Matt]

^ nice post.

 

[Crayo]

I remember debating this in secondary school and I wrote a long essay on why Hitler was a good leader. Most of them were intelligent to understand I was right, some called me a Nazi. Life goes on, people think praising the evil men in the world is wrong. It's not, some geniuses can be douche bags.

 

[Lacky]

I remember debating this in secondary school and I wrote a long essay on why Hitler was a good leader. Most of them were intelligent to understand I was right, some called me a Nazi. Life goes on, people think praising the evil men in the world is wrong. It's not, some geniuses can be douche bags.

I know the feeling got called Nazi a few times on Twitter, after I posted it.

 

[Zach]

I remember debating this in secondary school and I wrote a long essay on why Hitler was a good leader. Most of them were intelligent to understand I was right, some called me a Nazi. Life goes on, people think praising the evil men in the world is wrong. It's not, some geniuses can be douche bags.

When dealing with such a controversial topic, you'll often encounter a handful of nearsighted people. They're pretty much blinded by what society tells them. When I come across people like that, I try to back up my claims with facts and stuff, and if that doesn't work, then I'll just leave them alone. ity:

 

[Crayo]

Meh, it baffles me. If Stephan Hawking turned evil and used all his work to try and take over the world, would he no longer be considered a genius?

 

[Farooq]

IT's because he killed so many people because they were different from what he wanted that people don't want to admit he was smart. I don't give a fuck about him, he was smart and he rebuilt his country, but he also killed my people so fuck him. He's not stupid, but I'm glad he's fucking dead, wished I would have done it myself. And probally yeah, people would deny Hawking.

 

[Matt]

Meh, it baffles me. If Stephan Hawking turned evil and used all his work to try and take over the world, would he no longer be considered a genius?

an evil genius :burns:

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Meh, it baffles me. If Stephan Hawking turned evil and used all his work to try and take over the world, would he no longer be considered a genius?

Honestly even though intellectuals can separate his leadership skills from his evil qualities it is probably a good thing that the overwhelming majority of the world just associates him with being a rotten son of a bitch. It is sort of a pretty big trump card. Yea he was a talented leader and a helluva speaker to have so much of his country's population blindly following him, but the atrocities he carried out make it more than justifiable for his name in the history books to be synonymous with nothing more than being an evil, genocide committing crazy bastard.