Was Hitler a evil person?

I think Hitler was more insane than evil.

History is written by the victor. Seeing how he lost the allies any good he did for Germany was overlooked and anything he did wrong was blown out of proportion, due to all the propaganda he was made out to be evil. America did things just as bad as Germany even after all the atrocities on both sides America was seen as the good guys. So no Hitler was not evil nor good although I don't agree with every thing he did, he did help his country in its hour of need and if it wasn't for the war we would not have some of the technology we have today or it would have taken much longer to develop.

What the fuck? Dude, forget anything political of what Hitler did. He killed MILLIONS of Jewish people for the sake of KILLING THEM. Evil? I think yes

This is a fail, plane and simple. You don't get to know everything about Hitler from a movie. End of topic.

To the majority of Germany no he was not evil he was a savior who reestablished Germany's power. However to the world he was an evil man took the lives of millions of Jews and other people who he thought were not worthy of living.

And alas propaganda strikes again.

Never mind the Japanese who committed worse atrocities and war crimes than Hitler did to the Jews during their invasion of Manchuria against the Chinese and of South-East Asia in WWII.

I think it's stupid that everyone is having biased thoughts of "He killed a bunch of people, thus, he's evil". In short, Hitler was doing what he thought was right for his country, and in the end, to get his plans for 'improvement' going, he had to make a scapegoat, and those were the jews, which a majority of people hated, like how whites hated blacks at the time. What Hitler did wasn't necisarily evil, but it was so wrong it goes off the charts. If you would use US terms on this matter, he was too patriotic, risking everything for his country. To some, he was a hero, others, he was evil. In phylisfical terms, there is almost no good or evil, because one person may look at it a different way than the other, and we can't be so arrogant as to say 'my way is right, your's is wrong'.

As for the above statement, for the he killed a bunch of people. Japan did worse, and no one focuses on that. And what about the US? We dropped 2 nukes on 2 different cities and killed thousands. aren't we just as bad as Hitler, who started this war by one way, and we finished it with the same means?

Please tell, or explain to me why is Adolf Hitler known to be bad/evil in your eyes?

In my opinion, Adolf Hitler didn't do anything wrong. He just followed what he believed in and what he agreed on. Yes, He did killed millions of Jewish men, women, and even children. But He did actually succeeded a lot through out Europe than any one thinks. He tired his best to make a perfect Germany but took it over bored. But he actually did it for his people. For the sake of Germany. He tried to take what has been fallen after world war I, and he did. He did fine till his leadership came to an end. Look at me,
I sound like a total Nazi but I'm just wondering deeply. :\

Yes, I know this guy was out of his mind and did what was unbelievable. But don't you think he just did it for the sake of what he believed in? He did it for the sake of what was lost and what he wanted back for the people. To make Germany the best again?

Adolf Hitler and just wanted to know what do you, Fakkuterians, think about him?
How is he so evil in your eyes? or not?

...he murdered millions of innocent people. How is that not wrong?

In the end goes to Germany. Russia killed and raped millions of Innocent Germans as well.
Most likely led the them to suicide. So is every one the bad guy?

In war, there is no right. Every side usually suffers. The only people who benefit are the aristocrats of the winning nation.

Hitler was a genius. Hitler was a great leader. He was not, however, of sound mind. My definition of an evil person is simple: he committed evil acts, therefore he is evil.

Um, you really make a good point there. But Hitler didn't do it a lone. He had people help him through out his journey of Germany's success. So I can't call him much of a genius. But A great leader, I do. Evil. I'm starting to think, yea.

He did nothing wrong really? He used jews and other minorities as scapegoats for the problems in Germany. You do not have try to exterminate certain people to make your country great that makes you evil and insane. He is a person of power and misused his power by killing jews, putting them in concentration camps, and using them as experiments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation . His hatred and extermination of jews was not for the greater good of Germany, but only for his own hatred of jews and minorities that he thought were destroying Europe. If Hitler did nothing wrong then I guess Kim Jong Il, Pol Pot, Omar al-Bashir, and Stalin did nothing wrong because it was for the greater good of their country.

Actually Hitler wasn't all that hung up on exterminating jews. Memoirs from his closest associates indicates that while he reviled them, unlike Himmler or the other planners of Endlösung, he saw them more as a useful scapegoat in his propaganda and and later an outlet of hate he himself created. I don't say that didn't participate in the Holocaust, in fact it had his tacit approval. But unlike the more idologically driven Nazis (...those who were believing each and every word of their own drivel), for him, it wasn't an issue of personal conviction.

To him, the more important aspect of the whole sordid affair was that he could get rid of all his political enemies in one fell swoop, while the stolen loot and wealth could be used to reward his batmen and build further power.

So, yeah, in my opinion he was pretty evil man, for he was a lot more scheming than most give him credit for and was willing to have millions killed if it furthered his own ambitions.

I'm also intrigued with stuff about WW2 [watches a bit too much Military Channel & has a link for the Wikipedia WW2 portal ^^]. The Fuhrer was a true maestro of the spoken word and was a cunning & ruthless politician. But permit me to throw this in. Does a good man unilaterally break FOUR treaties? Versailles, the 1934 Polish-German pact, Munich, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
Ponder that.

He may not have been evil all the way down to his core. He did help his country escape economic turmoil. But the atrocities he committed are inexcusable; he does not deserve mercy for his crimes.

my grandmother was the only relative on her side to survive the Holocaust. Her parents, her five brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, most of her friends. She was the only one not tortured to death.

That you can even think about asking that question gives me shame to share your species.

As someone who was also raised with the memory of the Holocaust, I very much advise you to actually ponder the question. Can good men commit such unspeakable sins? Is every person involved a systematic abuse, atrocity, crime a raving lunatic, a person doing it for the evulz?

Here is something I've come to grips with over the years: most of Europe was complicit in the Holocaust. They averted their eyes, they didn't intervene or just decided not to notice. Most people at the time were also very racist... including the Allies.

The Milgram experiment also underlines my position: when pushed by authority, most people will buckle and do what is asked of them, file it away as just "part of life" (part of one's job, one's duty... anything but one's own responsibility). Were all these people evil to the core? If it takes exceptional qualities to stand up against peer pressure, to say no to authority what right do we have to judge people by such lofty standards?

Yet that's what we must do. For if we go on as we have, deluding ourselves with fairy tales and patriotic myth that extols our own nobility, we're doing nothing but doing our best to wash the memory of our common shame.

Unless we finally accept that the common man is capable of absurd levels of cruelty and evil without significant temptation to make him so...
Unless we teach our children to value life and dignity of the self above the empty phrases of politics...
Unless we put an end to the worship of authority, power and our own flawed sense of entitlement...
Unless we finally universally accept the sanctity of human life...

We're doomed to repeat this tragic play called history, that's rife with this time and again.

Here's the worst lesson that you better take to heart:

The Holocaust was nothing special.
It was something that came naturally to humans.

Its ilk has been committed time and again in history... only this time we had lofty notions that we're "better" than that. This time it was documented in each and every horrid details. This time, the genocide was not complete, so survivors could tell their tale... If only bones could speak, if only dust could whisper... roaming the Earth would sends shivers down your bones, that would wear on your very soul.

Do Hitler really evil?
No, the one that were evil the the current mind set of the people at that time which means the people that Hitler have to control. There is a theory saying that a mindset of people can be affected by the subcouncious thinking and the one that pull the trigger was actually Hitler, but Hitler himself doesn't even know about this.