Posted on 03/30/2005 7:12:00 PM PST by neverdem
One thing
Hitler never drew people. He's draw streets and scenes but no people.
And he may have been 12.5 % Jewish.
and he was a homo.
Who knew.
Bump for later. Thanks for your post, neverdem.
As for how Hitler's life would play out in the absence of capture, Dr. Murray predicted suicide. Good call.
"How fortunate for govenments that people do not think". Adolph Hitler
(Quoted in an article by Richard Grenier, "The Gandhi Nobody Knows," Commentary, March 1983 [online at http://eserver.org/history/ghandi-nobody-knows.txt ])
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He was a genius.
<< and he was a homo. >>
In the end, that's all he was: The ultimate manifestation of evil - the definitive bitchy queer.
[All of history's most evil tyrants were/are, demonstrably, sexual deviants]
I periodically remind my teenage vegetarian niece that Hitler, too, was a vegetarian. This does not amuse her mother (my liberal sister-in-law).
Actually, he did draw people. He just wasn't any good at it.
"and he was a homo."
Please. The man had enough problems. THAT was NOT one of them. Some evidence for your perusal:
1. He justified the murders of Roehm and his homosexual S.A. leadership by telling the Reichstag: "For their perversity alone they should have been shot!"
2. He was so distressed when his half-niece, Geli Raubal killed herself (he was in love with her) that he was put on a 'suicide watch' by fellow NAZIs who refused to leave him alone for a couple of days afterwards (circa 1930).
3. Eva Braun's letters survive and put the lie to the above statement - she describes their love making in at least one of them - he kept his socks on, if you care to know.
4. Finally (the clincher): he fathered a son (whom he never saw) with a French woman during WW I. When he conquered France, he had her immediately locked up in a mental asylum.
Her son found out his father's identity on his mother's death bed, and, needless to say, it ruined his life. He did have children however, so Hitler actually left descendants, who are French, and probably do not volunteer this family information very readily (to say the least).
However, he WAS a psychopath;
He was a Methamphetamine addict since about 1935, courtesy the quack Dr. Morrell, who was retained by Hitler as his doctor because Morrell was a Syphillis specialist;
He probably had Syphillis since some time in his youth, and his later conduct is consistent with the later stages of the disease, as well as Methamphetamine mania.
Any OTHER history lessons you want me to present to you?
There's no point in trying to slander a monster. His crimes speak for themselves and are infinitely worse than any of the character flaws he is often accused of.
Third, some understanding of Hitler had to include his love of Wagner, Hegel and other aspects of Germanic culture. While Hitler was not a truly speaking a German, he was Germanic enough to crave an identity as such including Wagner's antisemitism and so forth. As I understand it, Wagner was a cross dresser and Hitler's sexual predilections suggested dysfunction but his biographers have all been unclear to what extant.
There is such a thing as evil. Hitler surely was one of the great communicators of the 30s who understood the fears, wishes and needs of the Germans. He was clever to the extreme and must have been a great retail as well as a wholesale politician. He took all his abilities, all of his intelligence and directed it towards evil; hence, he was an evil man.
Finally, I wish people who write of Hitler's psychology would review Elias Canett's Crowds and Power. This book has a lengthy review of wanting to be a survivor and enjoying being a survivor of the dead as a prime motive factor in many mass murderers of history--that is Genghis Khan, Saddam, Caesar and so forth. This is why these people were dangerous and why now (with the A bomb) we dare not permit another to rise. A good reason for disposing of Saddam.
I didn't read the link in comment# 1, yet. Did you already?
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