[ealgeone]

I think had the Germans treated the Russians humanely, many would have welcomed them as liberators from Stalin.

I really think this is an overlooked aspect of the Eastern Front. All Hitler had to do was "play nice" until he'd won and then he could've enacted his plans.

Good thing he was an idiot.

[Cronos]

he was true to his word — what he said in the Mein Kampf is what he did. Arguably one could say that if he wasn’t such an idiot, he wouldn’t have won his way to power