Have you read Mein Kampf? I am guessing not. What I think most people (who have actually read his writings) find so frightening about him, more so than Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, or any of the other tyrants of history, is how close to the truth he was. All other philosophies and systems of government (our own American republican form included) rely on an in intellectual ideal, that people must bend themselves to. For example American liberty: it is not instinctive for people to grant freedom to your enemy, you must be taught the merit of it. Hitler had the idea that rather than mold man to the government, it would be better to mold government around the nature of man. That’s all there is to it, and that’s why even though colleges will require study into every abstract branch of communist thought, they’ve made people so programmed to revile anything related to Hitler, that nobody will bother to read it, and learn for themselves.
As Jordan Peterson has astutely pointed out (I wouldn’t try telling this to a German today):
Hitler was merely reflecting and amplifying the message that the German PEOPLE gave him. He drew upon their own desires, fears, and hatreds and simply honed them to a laser-sharp focus. His genius wasn’t that he was a spell-binding orator who led a people down a ‘primrose path’; on the contrary, his genius was in distilling what the German people really wanted and amplifying it.
The responsibility for the rise of Hitler lies 100% with THE GERMAN PEOPLE of his time (which they have denied ever since, concocting fantasies about a small minority taking over a nation, when in fact Hitler was the full expression of what the post-WW1 Germans actually wanted).
Which is why I HATE hearing the German language spoken - it reminds me of all of my own relatives who were killed by the Germans or lived under their brutal Occupation. The Germans destroyed the nation of my birth - TWICE - in the space of three decades - and then, in effect, handed it over to the communists for the next 4+ decades to finish off.
I will dislike them for so long as I am around.