Comparing Adolf Hitler with Josef Stalin, [Humboldt University professor Jörg] Baberowski claimed that Hitler was not “a psychopath, he wasn’t cruel, and he tolerated no mention of the extermination of the Jews in his presence”.
Comparing Adolf Hitler with Josef Stalin, [Humboldt University professor Jörg] Baberowski claimed that Hitler was not “a psychopath, he wasn’t cruel, and he tolerated no mention of the extermination of the Jews in his presence”.
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December 6th, 2014 at 12:50AM
Not only was Hitler a terrific dancer, he gave a lot of speeches that received rave reviews.
December 6th, 2014 at 10:24AM
Caligula gave great gifts at Saturnalia and always tipped the stable guy.
December 6th, 2014 at 11:41AM
Actually, I think there’s a backstory here. I never heard of this Baberowski fellow before, but it seems like his main offense has been to describe Stalin as Satan incarnate, to which some folks wistful for the DDR have taken offense and made it sound like he said that Hitler wasn’t such a bad guy after all by comparison. I think his argument is that Stalin was a hands-on bad guy while Hitler had his buddies do the dirty work.
December 6th, 2014 at 1:13PM
So, in short and by way of a Miller Analogy, Hitler was to megalomaniacal, sadistic insanity what Old Money is to the newer sort.