Objective Insights on Adolf Hitler

Many people give too much attention to the awful atrocities that Hitler committed to notice the good ends that he tried to achieve. Hitler attempted to create a better civilization by cleansing the world of the undesirables; although he wasn’t trying to cause the world pain or to rob it of it’s people, he was trying to strengthen the human race. He also wanted to bring his country to a higher echelon in the tiers of the world powers; although he resorted to war instead of peace. He may be a monster in the people of today’s eyes but he was only a man, a man who didn’t want to see humanity fail, a man who loved his country, and a man who despite personal hindrances rose to a place of world history he now shares with people like Alexander the Great, Julius Ceaser, and Napoleon Bonaparte.

In today’s post World War 2 climate, we are accustom to reading or hearing of how the Nazis tortured the minorities and tried to commit multiple genocides, but what we don’t hear about is the noble ideas behind the atrocities they committed. While we as humans don’t want to see others, regardless of their conditions, as undesirables, we need to maintain an objective view point while look at actions committed by other cultures. While what they were doing was offensive to the human race and they did need to be stopped, they were trying to achieve a noble goal: the eradication of disease, genetic deficiencies, and over population.

Hitler was an extremely persuasive power.  He gave the German people hopes of being a true world power again like they were in WWI, and like they used to be centuries before that.  The Germanic nations were powerful. He wanted to unify Germany, Europe, and world under Germany’s name and flag. He was charismatic and strong-willed; Headstrong and fierce.  It’s easy to feel prideful behind such a person when you have nothing.  Also, he glorified the blonde hair/blue eye people (Aryans) as the pure, superior, über leet race which instilled even more pride. It injected the country with this superiority complex.  Though he had horrible intentions, he led his country and his people well. 

The final, most heroic act Hitler performed was his suicide.  On April 30, 1945, Hitler pulled the trigger on one of the greatest evils in history:  himself.  He was too prideful; too shamed by defeat that death was his only sane option out of it all.  Also, he felt the betrayal by his officers was too much to bear.  Had he been captured, there’s no telling what would have been done to him.  Instead of remaining contained indefinitely, he decided to out himself of an endlessly messed up situation.  Though Hitler was the great villain, he was also the hero to defeat the villain.

Everyone has their good parts and their bad parts.  Sometimes, to see the good in an otherwise wacked out situation, you must take on the point of view of he whose life you are analyzing.  To fully understand the actions of a person, you must take a look into their mindset, and see all possibilities.  Hitler may have been a seemingly endless evil, but evil did in time consume itself, leaving just the aftermath of a horrible situation.