> Napoleon is highly regarded not just for his conquests, but also for bringing France out of the nightmares of the revolution and the terror. <
There are many parallels between Napoleon and Hitler. Both men were not born in the country proper they ended up ruling. And both men pulled their nations out of a crisis: Napoleon and the Terror, Hitler and the Great Depression.
Then both men went on a megalomaniac wars of conquest, wars that ended in disaster. However, only Napoleon is celebrated today. They both should be on the trash heap of history, IMO.
Your parallels are correct, and I won’t argue that point.
It’s just a funny thing either way, and it would be interesting to see how they’re both regarded in another 200 years.
Aside from being more recent history, I’d suggest that the two major differences between the two would be the following:
NB did not attempt to exterminate a race of people.
NB invaded Russia when it was an imperialist monarchy, not when it was a holy paradise of the socialist peepel’s republik. (sarcasm, but when you think about it, the media loved AH right up until 1941, go figure)
Anyway, good day to you, or at least hopefully decent enough for a Monday