Why Didn't Anyone Kill Hitler?

History News Network ^ | July 19, 2014 | Daniel Mandel

[righttackle44]

The interesting story about how Beria was infamous for his pathetic kowtowing to Stalin, but hated Stalin. The story is that, while Stalin was in the process of dying, Beria was essentially berating the Big Dude. But Stalin awoke, and Beria faded before him, whining and crying. Pathetic. Two men who had no character.

[x1stcav]

Another provocative proposition. However, I have such scant regard for the clowns running the show now that perhaps I’m too ready to, too easily dismiss the abilities of the generations back to assess such a sophisticated approach.

They certainly seemed to have a more serious approach to matters.

[WXRGina]

Someone did kill Hitler . . . Hitler did it.

Did you see this? Wow. Hunting Hitler: New Scientific Evidence That Hitler Escaped Nazi Germany [Hardcover]

I bought it but haven't gotten very far into it yet. Pretty fascinating stuff, though.

[righttackle44]

Quit comparing me to Obama.

It's interesting that you brought the supreme insult to Hitler. It made me laugh a long time. Good one.

[Victor]

"...Now that I’ve thought about it, I’m not certain Is history’s most infamous mass murderer. I think that distinction belongs to Stalin and Mao....."

The Romans' dispatch of Carthage belongs somewhere in this mix.

[Trod Upon]

When you come right down to it, very few people have the balls to trade their lives for what they believe is right. Sure, people voluntarily join the armed forces and face the possibility of what turns out to be mostly accidental death, but the guy who has an attack of conscience and walks up to a tyrant and puts a bullet in his brain is almost certainly going to be made an example of by said tyrant's most fanatical cronies. Takes balls of steel to do what you know is right knowing full well you will not be around for the beneficial effects of your act. What you need is a critical mass of enough like minded individuals in the right positions (see what happened to Ceaucescu), but this is difficult to establish without getting killed in the process. It's why the Castros still plague Cuba, for example.

[BenLurkin]

Better question: Why didn't anyone kill Karl Marx?

The existence of such tyrants and the decline of civilization can both be laid at his feet.

[dfwgator]

Yes, that was portrayed in the HBO movie “Stalin” with Robert Duval playing Stalin.

[WXRGina]

Yep!

[Bryanw92]

>>No one can see the future. Yes, people can see the future but the sheeple don’t listen.

You can forecast and predict the future based on analysis. You can’t see it. Would you shoot a person based on the analysis of a trend? Ever see “Minority Report”? Even if you could see future crimes, what would you do about it? How many would claim that gift and abuse it?

[laplata]

Stalin had a stroke and they didn’t allow the doctors to help him for hours. By then it was to late to help him.

[Fred Hayek]

I had a discussion a few years ago with a military history professor at West Point. His position was that the Allies did not defeat the Wehrmacht. Hitler did. He ran it into the ground and had them chasing boondoggles.

[The Great RJ]

Interesting that during WW-I a British soldier allegedly had Pvt. Hitler in his sights and did not fire.

[Wingy]

I would put Rachel Carson in the running. 100 million dead is a pretty tall bar.

[virgil283]

I like your differentiation of right wing and left wing

"I think the term right-wing doesn't properly apply to American conservatism"

I chafe when conservatives are lumped together with Hitler/ Mussolini.

[virgil283]

"the Allies did not defeat the Wehrmacht. Hitler did"

It is quite sobering to think if the Nazi's had developed ICBMs and jet bombers instead of chasing around Der Fuhrers hair-brained flights of fantasies....

[Talisker]

Very few people actually want freedom. What most people want is one or another level of being able to indulge in their own tyranny. That’s why tyrants rise in the first place, promising (usually in openly-secret code words) exactly that to their followers.

So the brutal fact is that the only real difference between any factions, even in the US, is the acceptable level of tyranny and the acceptable cover story. Usually these issues are tempered by a sense of self-preservation, along the lines of any parasite’s need to keep its host too weak to fight back, but still strong enough to not die (and thus end the food feast).

However as this is not a precise science, and as parasites trend to get drunk on their successes, successful collectivist ventures tend to end in total war. Which of course is why it is in big business’s interest to nurture collectivist catastrophes, for as Rhett Butler observed to Scarlett, the two times to make big money is when everything is collapsing, and when everything is being built back up out of the ashes. Which is also why American liberals are at their most absurd when they are hating corporate capitalism, since it is the abiding fuel for their very existence.

[Pelham]

"In fact, I think the term right-wing doesn't properly apply to American conservatism, which upholds what is still the most radical revolution in human history. "

Russell Kirk disagreed completely with that view.

Kirk's view is that the American Revolution was a profoundly conservative struggle. The American colonials were defending their rights as Englishmen against a king who was violating them repeatedly.

[oh8eleven]

Why Didn't Anyone Kill Hitler?
Why didn't God stop him - or stop Mao - or Stalin - or Pol Pot, etc?

[bmwcyle]

Men do see the future but people like you do not believe them. You made my point.