NOTE : THIS POST IS AN EXAMPLE OF FALLACY, OFTEN EMPLOYED BY SHREWD IN DEBATES.
Was Hitler indeed a Good Man?
Adolf Hitler has a history of the world that can never be forgotten.
Adolf Hitler is a black history about which you must have heard or read something. By now
everything you have heard about Hitler will be his evil, but today we are giving such information
about Hitler which is good, not his evil.
Goodness of Hitler
Hitler was also a good man with long will power. The rich of charismatic forces had to think of their
people. This is proved by the fact that Hitler not only led the war but he also led the anti-smoking
campaign. Hitler was very much addicted to smoking, but in 1919 he not only gave up smoking but
also stopped smoking in his state.
Hitler was conscious about the health of his Germans, so he organized several campaigns against
smoking. Hitler once led an anti-smoking campaign with 20 German women.
In 1939, Hitler ordered the scientists to research the harm caused by smoking.
Since Hitler's move, almost all the countries of the world are working at their level for smoking.
Even today the whole world is carrying forward this mission of Hitler.
Adolf Hitler had already discovered what concerns the countries of the world later. From this, it can
be judged how far-sighted Hitler was
Hitler is a democratic person
● Hitler had reached here after fighting elections, in which he was democratic.
A supporter of keeping the body healthy
● During Hitler's time, the youth needed to exercise.
Employ all
● There was unemployment in Germany before Hitler came. Hitler emphasized certain areas.
Military sector
● The recruitment of new soldiers and the manufacture of weapons and tanks on a large scale
brought employment, as well as the production of steel 3 times in a few months.
Manufacturing
● New roads, schools, hospitals, new buildings such as the introduction of infrastructure projects
brought a lot of employment.
Olympic event
● Hitler organized the grand Olympics of his time, he will also consider in no time, we are not able
to organize such events even today
● People got heavy employment from this Olympics too
For farmers
● At the time of Hitler, the growth rate of farming was 20 percent, so Hitler's support among the
farmers was excessive.
Hitler may have taken away independence from the people of Germany, but also gave employment
and economic equality, which caused the people of Germany to die for him.
Why Hitler was made a villain
● In a democracy, the leaders had to hide their drain, in such a short time, if the public knew about
Hitler's rejuvenation of his country's people in such a short time, then it would have been difficult
for the leaders to escape from power.
Certainly. You can’t govern for 12 years and not do something good. Things that come to mind are
the following:
Animal rights were improved.
The old, hereditary elites lost power, and Germany became more meritocratic. This contributed to
the fact that Bonn worked better than Weimar.
Some social programs: For most people in the 1920s vacations were something rich people did.
Then with “Kraft durch Freude” ordinary workers could board a ship and go to Norway or through
the Baltic sea, or buy a special, reduced train ticket to see the Alps.
Highways and the economical recovery are not due to Hitler. The plans for building highways were
formed before he rose to power, and the recovery is partly due to fraud (The biggest one was the
“Metallurgische Forschungsgesellschaft”, which had 1 million capital, but secured 11.9 billions of
credit, which was used to pay for armament), partly to a Keynesian approach, and partly to lower
salaries obtained by destroying independent unions. The Keynesian part was not Hitler’s idea, who
apparently had no economical ideas at all.
Fest wrote that if the assassination attempt in 1938 would have succeeded, most Germans would
have thought that they had lost their greatest politician in a long time. This is probably true, but as
Haffner noted, it would have taken them only weeks to learn how wrong they were. Still history
would have judged him no worse than Trujillo, Franco, Pinochet and many other dictators. Only
after 1940 all of the monster became visible.
He liked animals and was a pioneer in enacting laws to prevent and prosecute cruelty against
animals. Animal welfare in Nazi Germany
He was an anti smoker, and was a pioneer in enacting anti-smoking laws. Anti-tobacco movement
in Nazi Germany
He was instrumental in founding Volkswagen
, which literally means "people's car", with the idea of coming up with a low priced and affordable
German version of the Model-T for the masses. The cute VW Beetle owes a lot to der Fuhrer.
The Autobahn, initially Reichsautobahn
, also owes a lot to Hitler.
If his sensitivity had extended to humans/ if it wasn't for the rabid racism, genocide, aggression,
wars, atrocities, and millions of deaths, Hitler might have gone down in history as an enlightened
and decent duffer.
Germany hosting the first public television station and televising the 1936 Olympics. One of the
things not mentioned where Hitler was right was that he started the tradition of Olympic runners
carrying the torch to the Olympic stadium and lighting the Olympic torch. While people forget the
origins of this tradition, Hitler started it as a marketing tool for Germany.
When Hitler took over Germany, the country was in a deep depression like much of the world. The
banks had failed; there was high unemployment; there was much licentiousness; there was
increasing agitation between the Communists and the Fascists and the Republicans and so on. Hitler
put people to work on massive public works projects; his conservative principles stated that women
belonged in the home and therefore stripped them of the right to work in many jobs. This
immediately allowed him to report rapid reductions in the unemployment rate, a cynical ploy to
convince people he was doing something good. But eventually, the “self-sufficiency” program put
many everyone to work and jobs are the Number One item that make people of any nation feel good
about the future. Of course, many of Hitler’s projects were either make-work projects or designed to
prepare the country for war, but they had the “right” aspect of putting people to work and giving
them pride.
One of the major “right” things Hitler did was replace the worthless mark with the Riechmark, a
new currency. By doing this and abrogating debt he was able to revalue the currency and whip
inflation. Many countries, such as Argentina in the early 2000s have used the same method to kill
inflation and revalue their currency after going broke. Hitler bet that the world would have no
stomach to force the repayment of the due war reparations and he was right. Freed of that burden he
gave Germany new pride and made the currency valuable again. He didn’t invent this mechanism
but he used it effectively and with bravado.
Hitler was an advocate for children. He wanted to make sure that all children got the best education
and put in many programs for children. It included a healthy dose of indoctrination and propaganda
but it educated children and got them healthy. A primary part of the education was physical fitness
and the Germans set up many competitions and gave out lots of medals to children for their
accomplishments. Hitler was a fan of Napoleon when he said, “I can get men to die for a little piece
of ribbon” and the Germans were fond of decorations for accomplishment. So this started early. The
children were schooled, fed and trained. Even JFK implemented a similar program in the 1960s
called the “President’s Physical Fitness Challenge” where patches were given to elementary school
students accomplished a certain regimen. German children went from listless, malnourished and
frightened creatures to strong, healthy Hitler Youth who proved during the war capable of stopping
the Soviet advances into Berlin with Panzerfausts. Of course, many, many of these children died
horrible deaths.
As part of the self-sufficiency program, Hitler (under Goering) required that most industrial tooling
and resource procurement be done within the borders of Germany, even if it was cheaper to go
outside the country. Hitler was setting the country up to be able to survive blockades in war but the
effect was to accelerate technological development and improve the extraction of resources,
primarily coal and iron ore, and stockpile it against future needs (such as for tanks and ships). This
also helped with the unemployment since everything possible had to be built in Germany more
factories sprang up to build more home-grown stuff. Consider in the US, for example, the XL
pipeline that the Republicans are screaming about. All of the pipe for the program comes for India
and is made of inferior steel. Had the Republicans been able to required American pipe made of
American steel they might have won a few people over to their side. As it is, the Indian pipe blows
leaks frequently. By forcing iron ore to be mined in Germany and smelted in Germany he forced up
prices, since Swedish ore and iron was much, much cheaper, but he also was able to build huge
factories and redundant mining systems that would pay off during the war. At the same time, the
Germans were still importing significant cheap iron from Sweden and things they couldn’t get from
Germany, such as Manganese, which is critical in the production of weapons grade steel.
Another thing Hitler implemented which was right was the “Strength through Joy” program where
people, who now had jobs, also had rights to vacations, often subsidized by the government, along
the new Autobahns which put people to work (at poor wages but, hey) so they could get to vacation
spots in cultured parks, forests and museums developed and supported by the Third Reich. These
programs were extremely popular and Germans love the outdoors
and hiking and many people took advantage of these trips.
Hitler was right about using popular media as a tool for pushing nationalist propaganda disguised as
entertainment. The German film industry, the UFA, made many patriotic films at Babelsburg, the
German equivalent of Hollywood, where they developed their own stars, techniques and story lines
mostly centered around German supremacy, victory, the evils of Bolshevism and so on. As movies
like “Casablanca” were entertainment but also patriotic propaganda in America so were the movies
made by Goebbels. He was making propaganda right up til the end of the war, the last movie being
made, “Kolberg”, a forced Napoleonic epic where the Germans win against overwhelming odds.
While real armies were fighting and dying around them in early 1945, thousands of people were
involved in the making of this costume epic with papier-mache cannons and wooden rifles. By then,
the country was devastated and almost no one saw the movie anyway. But using the mechanism as
an insidious way to manipulate people’s minds is no different than anything Hollywood does today
with movies like “Taken” and “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”. However, nothing like Jason Bourne
could ever have been made unless the enemy were Bolsheviks. The Germans were very strict about
“good” and “evil” in order to make their nationalistic propaganda work. The movie “Triumph of the
Will” so scared the American government that it was banned in America.
Hitler could not have continued doing these things indefinitely. The country was being run on
Keynesian overspending which brought it back to prosperity but to keep it going Hitler had to
strong arm the bankers and blackmail the industrialists to perform his will. Eventually, the entire
thing would have collapsed in a heap the way the Soviet Union did in the 1990s because there
would be too much interest to pay and not enough money to keep ahead of the debt but the war preempted
those issues and strict currency control helped maintain the fiction of German solvency
right up til the end of the war.
