"Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived... He had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made."
- John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America
The Post-War diary of John F. Kennedy, as quoted in Prelude to Leadership (pages 73-74, last two paragraphs).
Do you know when and what context that quote was made? Saying that Hitler “had some mystery about him in the way that he lived and the way that he died” isn’t effusive praise for Hitler, but kind of a neutral statement in and of itself.