The author is Patrick Buchanan. He has learned political finesse over time, but read what he wrote in 1977.
http://www.realchange.org/hitler.htm
an excerpt from there:
“Those of us in childhood during the war years were introduced to Hitler only as caricature. Either he was a ranting, raving, carpet-chewing Chaplinesque buffoon — or the anti-Christ, Satan Incarnate, a devil without human attribute who had hypnotized the German people.
Such ignorance is folly. Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier’s soldier in the Great War, a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him.
But Hitler’s success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.”
I really don’t see what Buchanan said here that was wrong. He didn’t deny Hitler was an evil man. But he couldn’t have achieved what he did, if he didn’t have some brilliance to him.
And yes, he did make fools of the Statesmen who were in his path, and his Generals who didn’t think he should have even marched into The Rhineland.
In this article he's doing just that, contradicting himself. Pat needs to go back and read his own books, several of which point out that the change in immigration policy is what has contributed mightily to our becoming a fragmented nation every bit as much as the democrat politics of division has. Either that or tell us straight out that several of his books were simply intended to pander to popular opinion and he doesn't really believe what said therein.
That’s actually a pretty good description of Hilter. What’s your objection to it?
While many comments about Adolph Schickelgruber are on the mark, he was hardly a genius. The core reason he ascended the pinnacle in Germany was the consequence of the Great War; a conflict that Germany could and should have won quickly and decisively; sparing the world virtually every horror of the most destructive century since the dawn of Man.
But fretful mediocrities had replaced the genius of Von Bismarck and Von Moltke, so it would not happen.
The German People could neither understand nor accept their defeat; which was the result of a grossly incompetent Foreign Office and General Staff.
Nor could the latter be openly blamed because of its link to and mutual dependence on the Hohenzollern Monarchy.
So a door was opened through which Hitler walked blaming the Jews, homosexuals, communists; among others.
The rest is history.