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Originally Posted by Agrippa
Only insofar, as Germany lost a war under a Ns. regime I'd say.
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I contest that. Although I certainly don't believe that everything was bad in the third Reich, Hitler was a
bad leader, in my opinion, who brought the terrible postwar condition still in hold on Germany (let alone anything else he also did wrong). And not just on Germany, by the way. When you fight your woes, you better do it right, and Hitler fought, but he fought wrong. And I much doubt that he was ever a mature leader. He had the gift of charismatic speech - that, and not his competence, was what made him popular. And many of the flaws of Hitler's are exactly what national socialists still propagate.
Germany wasn't really guilty of bringing on the war, but Hitler was. And many people died in defense of his megalomania. That alone is a great loss.
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Originally Posted by Agrippa
Don't forget, many of the enemies Germany had as a Ns. state, it already had before
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That is an important point, but it didn't make Hitler a good leader, nor national socialism a good ideology.
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