> My great uncle who was in Patton’s 3rd Army and helped liberate Buchenwald would have a different view than yours
Possibly he would. That doesn’t invalidate my view, however.
Evil people, like Hitler, do not come pre-equipped with horns and a pointy tail. If they did, they would be easier to spot and they would fool fewer people.
Hitler had enough going for him to inspire otherwise-intelligent, otherwise-good people to fight and ultimately die for his Vision.
Therein lies the danger of oversimplification: Hitler was far more complex than simply “thoroughly Evil and with no redeeming qualities”. Of course he was!
He fooled an entire Nation.
That's a matter of self-serving opinion. LOL.
Evil people, like Hitler, do not come pre-equipped with horns and a pointy tail. If they did, they would be easier to spot and they would fool fewer people.
This is BS. I saw Jon Lovitz on SNL in a red suit with a pointy tail and horns and knew he wasn't evil as soon as I saw the skit.
You're excusing a largely Godless society's inability to recognize evil when it was stared down by it. Hitler trained his people well. The Depression- and WWII-era Germans are complicit in his evil. He laid it out for the world to read and see.
He fooled an entire Nation.
He didn't fool these people. These people ate up his evil with a Löffel.