BrendleWhat’s Hitler Ain’t No Genius

6 thoughts on “BrendleWhat’s Hitler Ain’t No Genius”

• With Adolf Hitler, historians can sometimes sensationalize. The 2 best books on Hitler are Hubris (1889 to 1936) and Nemesis (1936 to 1945) by Ian Kershaw. Another good book (though incidental with Hitler) is the 3d Reich @ War by Professor R.J. Evans. But to Hitler and what we know. We know that there’s mental illness in Adolf Hitler’s family. We know that Adolf Hitler wanted to be a painter (he was an architecture painter) but he was rejected for Vienna Art Academy.

  During World War 1, Hitler fought on the side of Germany and not Austria-Hungary. Hitler was wounded twice during the Great War or First World War and near end of war, he was wounded by mustard gas suffering conjunctivitis-Hitler rejected all ideas to use the nerve gases Sarin, Tabun & Soman during WW2 while the Nazis did use Zyklon B gas and Carbon Monoxide. But in the book 3d Reich @ War, Prof. R.J. Evans raises that the Nazis did in a few cases kill prisoners in nerve gas experiments in the concentration camps.There’s alot more such as Beerhall Putsch, him not being a citizen for 7 years (rejecting his Austrian citizenship).

  Hitler’seating habits-from 1931 to 1945 Hitler had mostly a vegetarian diet. Was Hitler a vegetarian ? Hitler @ various times called himself a vegetarian, but there are conflicting reports. 1 has of Hitler enjoying squab & a 1938 NY Times article writes of Hitler a vegetarian, but occasionally eats ham & caviar. Hitler definitely had an interest in vegetarian foods & Hitler proselytized about it. We know that from 1931 onwards, his diet was mostly vegetarian & @ various times, he called himself a vegetarian. Whether or not Hitler eventually became a vegetarian, he did proselytize the health benefits.

  Some have said that Nazis such as Paul Josef Goebbels propagated the image of Hitler as a vegetarian who loves animals and children to make him look kind & gentle. Nazi propaganda would show films of Hitler with children & dogs. The Nazis did pass animal welfare laws which were advanced for it’s time such as Hitler signed law to protect the eagle (Eagle on Swastika is Nazi symbol) and Hitler signed laws which created rules on when hunting foxes and Hitler signed laws on fastest way to kill crustaceans. In the end Hitler, his mistress Eva Braun and their dog Blondi all committed suicide.

  If Hitler had died in 1938 (before the Holocaust) instead of 1945 (after millions were killed), he would have gone down as a great leader in German history. Germany and later Austria (after 1938) anschluss were advanced in many ways during Hitler’s time be it automotive science (V.W. Beetle came out in 1938), veterinary science and other things. But Hitler was a dictator whose interest was lebensraum & from 1941 to 1945, the extermination of Jewry (Holocaust began in 1941 as Nazi Germany’s policy changed during Operation Barbarossa from immigration to extermination with Jan. 1942 Wannsee Conference officializing this).

  Hitler was a dictator who killed millions, whether it’s starving & working prisoners to death, shootings, gas vans & pseudo-scientific experiments + taking Europe into a war that killed millions. If Hitler is to be neutrally talked about, then even the things the Nazis did which made Germany & later Austria advanced for it’s time are to be discussed. Other things we know about Hitler is that he was an ex smoker and he did not tolerate tobacco use around him. The Nazis did campaign though unsuccessfully against tobacco-slogans they would use to stop tobacco use (Germans I find smoke alot) would be to show a German family with their Volkswagen and they would show Americans Indians smoking to discourage this by showing that the Aryan race does not smoke while the American Indians & other races do.

  We also know about Hitler’s medical problems such as the fact he had many doctors and Theo Gilbert Morell gave Hitler many useless drugs and injections. We know that Hitler had digestive problems as Hitler had a farting problem and Hitler took the antigasdrug Koster which Theo G. Morell gave him. Theo G. Morell is suspected to have given Hitler Methamphetamines. It is believed Hitler had Parkinson’s disease and he had problems with eyesight. We know that Hitler tried to keep secret his relationship with Eva Braun who was not known to most Germans (other than Hitler’s inner circle such as Goebbels) until after the war.

  With the Holocaust, before this began in Summer 1941 (Holocaust officially began in Jan. 1942 after Lake Wannsee Conference), Nazi Germany’s original policy was for Jews to leave Europe to emigrate to Palestine and during 1930s, Adolf Eichmann met with Jewish leaders in then Palestine to do this before it turned to extermination.

  Other thing with Holocaust is accusation that Jerusalem Mufti Amin al Husseini was 1 of the Holocaust architects. Now it is true that Mufti Husseini opposed Jewish immigration to then Palestine which Nazi Germany originally wanted as Nazi Germany first wanted Jews to leave Europe and immigrate to Palestine during the 1930s before it turned to Extermination in 1942 following Lake Wannsee Conference. It’s also true that the Mufti sought Hitler’s help to fight British Mandate in then Palestine. But did Hitler involve Mufti Amin Al Husseini in the Final Solution? The Nazis did try to keep the Holocaust program a secret using euphemisms such as FInal Solution, Madagascar when it had changed to extermination. The Simon Wiesenthal Center believes the Mufti was involved in Final Solution but the U.S. Holocaust Museum as of 2010 did not mention the Mufti. Palestinian groups have said the Mufti Husseini had no involvement and is demonized because of Arab-Jewish conflicts. Incidentally, both Jews and Arabs are cousins.

• 2 best books on Hitler are Hubris (1889 to 1936) and Nemesis (1936 to 1945) by Ian Kershaw. Another good book (though incidental with Hitler) is the 3d Reich @ War by Professor R.J. Evans. But to Hitler and what we know. We know that there’s mental illness in Adolf Hitler’s family. We know that Adolf Hitler wanted to be a painter (he was an architecture painter) but he was rejected for Vienna Art Academy.

  During World War 1, Hitler fought on the side of Germany and not Austria-Hungary. Hitler was wounded twice during the Great War or First World War and near end of war, he was wounded by mustard gas suffering conjunctivitis-Hitler rejected all ideas to use the nerve gases Sarin, Tabun & Soman during WW2 while the Nazis did use Zyklon B gas and Carbon Monoxide. But in the book 3d Reich @ War, Prof. R.J. Evans raises that the Nazis did in a few cases kill prisoners in nerve gas experiments in the concentration camps.There’s alot more such as Beerhall Putsch, him not being a citizen for 7 years (rejecting his Austrian citizenship).

  Hitler’seating habits-from 1931 to 1945 Hitler had mostly a vegetarian diet. Was Hitler a vegetarian ? Hitler @ various times called himself a vegetarian, but there are conflicting reports. 1 has of Hitler enjoying squab & a 1938 NY Times article writes of Hitler a vegetarian, but occasionally eats ham & caviar. Hitler definitely had an interest in vegetarian foods & Hitler proselytized about it. We know that from 1931 onwards, his diet was mostly vegetarian & @ various times, he called himself a vegetarian. Whether or not Hitler eventually became a vegetarian, he did proselytize the health benefits.

  Some have said that Nazis such as Paul Josef Goebbels propagated the image of Hitler as a vegetarian who loves animals and children to make him look kind & gentle. Nazi propaganda would show films of Hitler with children & dogs. The Nazis did pass animal welfare laws which were advanced for it’s time such as Hitler signed law to protect the eagle (Eagle on Swastika is Nazi symbol) and Hitler signed laws which created rules on when hunting foxes and Hitler signed laws on fastest way to kill crustaceans. In the end Hitler, his mistress Eva Braun and their dog Blondi all committed suicide.

  If Hitler had died in 1938 (before the Holocaust) instead of 1945 (after millions were killed), he would have gone down as a great leader in German history. Germany and later Austria (after 1938) anschluss were advanced in many ways during Hitler’s time be it automotive science (V.W. Beetle came out in 1938), veterinary science and other things. But Hitler was a dictator whose interest was lebensraum & from 1941 to 1945, the extermination of Jewry (Holocaust began in 1941 as Nazi Germany’s policy changed during Operation Barbarossa from immigration to extermination with Jan. 1942 Wannsee Conference officializing this).

  Hitler was a dictator who killed millions, whether it’s starving & working prisoners to death, shootings, gas vans & pseudo-scientific experiments + taking Europe into a war that killed millions. If Hitler is to be neutrally talked about, then even the things the Nazis did which made Germany & later Austria advanced for it’s time are to be discussed. Other things we know about Hitler is that he was an ex smoker and he did not tolerate tobacco use around him. The Nazis did campaign though unsuccessfully against tobacco-slogans they would use to stop tobacco use (Germans I find smoke alot) would be to show a German family with their Volkswagen and they would show Americans Indians smoking to discourage this by showing that the Aryan race does not smoke while the American Indians & other races do.

  We also know about Hitler’s medical problems such as the fact he had many doctors and Theo Gilbert Morell gave Hitler many useless drugs and injections. We know that Hitler had digestive problems as Hitler had a farting problem and Hitler took the antigasdrug Koster which Theo G. Morell gave him. Theo G. Morell is suspected to have given Hitler Methamphetamines. It is believed Hitler had Parkinson’s disease and he had problems with eyesight. We know that Hitler tried to keep secret his relationship with Eva Braun who was not known to most Germans (other than Hitler’s inner circle such as Goebbels) until after the war.

  With the Holocaust, before this began in Summer 1941 (Holocaust officially began in Jan. 1942 after Lake Wannsee Conference), Nazi Germany’s original policy was for Jews to leave Europe to emigrate to Palestine and during 1930s, Adolf Eichmann met with Jewish leaders in then Palestine to do this before it turned to extermination.

  Other thing with Holocaust is accusation that Jerusalem Mufti Amin al Husseini was 1 of the Holocaust architects. Now it is true that Mufti Husseini opposed Jewish immigration to then Palestine which Nazi Germany originally wanted as Nazi Germany first wanted Jews to leave Europe and immigrate to Palestine during the 1930s before it turned to Extermination in 1942 following Lake Wannsee Conference. It’s also true that the Mufti sought Hitler’s help to fight British Mandate in then Palestine. But did Hitler involve Mufti Amin Al Husseini in the Final Solution? The Nazis did try to keep the Holocaust program a secret using euphemisms such as FInal Solution, Madagascar when it had changed to extermination. The Simon Wiesenthal Center believes the Mufti was involved in Final Solution but the U.S. Holocaust Museum as of 2010 did not mention the Mufti. Palestinian groups have said the Mufti Husseini had no involvement and is demonized because of Arab-Jewish conflicts. Incidentally, both Jews and Arabs are cousins.

• What I will say here will offend, but President Harry S. Truman’s right when he said that Jews (not all but many) often only care for themselves. I have heard American soldiers thank President Harry S. Truman for saving their lives by allowing the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, talking of how they did not have to take part in a ground war with Japan, as they had seen the terror of kamikaze planes hitting their ships.

  Yet when it comes to the Holocaust, it’s a fact that Jews get rich from this & Jews usually don’t thank Presidents Harry S. Truman, President FDR & the British PM Churchill for the fighting American & British soldiers did in Western Europe to defeat the Nazis (Red Army fought in East against the Germans). Jews were complicit in Stalin’s Holocaust which took many more lives than Hitler’s Holocaust against Jews. 1 would be right to say that Jews still hate the Germans for the Holocaust when again, Germans, Italians & Japanese born after the war are not to blame for what their parents did & the Germans, Italians & Japanese have done nice things for science & culture.

  1 would be right in thinking that there are many Jews who hate Arabs & some who would not care if all Arabs died. There are also Arabs who hate Jews & wouldn’t care if all Jews died. Yes, bad things have happened to Jews which include the Holocaust genocide. Only saying that Jews were complicit in committing Stalin’s Holocaust against Latvians, Ukrainians & others, but it’s often called anti-Semitic to tell these truths. Many non-Jews also took part in Stalin’s Soviet Holocaust, but again, Jewish complicity was alot during Stalin’s Red Terror which was before & after the Nazi Holocaust.

• President Harry S. Truman should have dropped the atom bombs elsewhere in Japan with fewer civilian deaths, but there is no guarantee that this would have ended the war. President Truman had bad options. He could have done what he did and it ended the war. If it had gone to a ground war with Japan, more people both Allied and Japanese would have been killed. Japanese would have used women and children in combat with house to house fighting and they were already doing so. Japanese had Bushido (Samurai way) and fighting to death was preferred to suicide.

  Yes, the newborns killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are innocent war victims andthey did nothing wrong. War is a bad thing. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was wrong, but there were only wrong choices for President Truman to choose from. War is bad and an invasion of Japan would have been worse. If Italy, Japan and Germany had the atom bombs, they would have used them as the Japanese airforce had used parachuted fleabombs (similar to daisy cutters used in Vietnam) against China were many were killed in biological warfare. Japan had a program to build the atomb bombs.

  Japanese soldiers were taught to think that fighting to death including suicide missions was better than surrender as surrender considered dishonorable. Japanese military had Bushido which is Samurai Way and Japanese soldiers did Banzai charges in suicide missions along with Kamikaze Airforce-which included human piloted rockets (Okha or Cherry Blossom) and suicide boats. Also the daisy cutters (parachuted bombs) that the Japanese airforce used during World War 2 were fleas carried plague, typhoid and anthrax bombs.

  The daisy cutter bombs used during the Vietnam War were bombs that exploded and did not have fleas. We did use Agent Orange herbicides to kill crops during Vietnam War but biological war was not used. North Vietnamese used booby traps such as Bouncing Betties and we used cluster bombs during Vietnam War. The Germans did have the nerve gases Sarin, Tabun and Soman but Hitler rejected all ideas to use them during the war. Professor R.J. Evans in his book the 3d Reich at War mentions that the Nazis did have experimental nerve gas killings in the concentration camps. Nazis mainly used Zyklon B and diesel gas (Carbon Monoxide) to kill people. Nazis and Japanese military did heinous experiments on prisoners as happened in Nazi concentration camps or Unit 731 in Manchuria on allied POW. The intentional killing of civilians is an evil act and is wrong-war alone is bad.

  There are only wrong and bad choices which President Harry S. Truman had. My view always will be that the atom bombs should have been dropped in other places in Japan with fewer civilians death but I admit that there is no guarantee there would be surrender. There was no guarantee that Japan would surrender after Hiroshima and Nagasaki as they had not surrendered after Tokyo and other cities were bombed with so many civilian deaths. If it goes to an invasion, many more civilians get killed and Japanese would have used women and children soldiers in combat. 14 year old Japanese boys would fly planes in kamikaze missions. In Okinawa, families committed suicide such as Japanese women with their children would jump off of cliffs to their deaths.

  And must repeat that Japan would have used the atom bombs if they had them and we may still be dealing with them today and Japan would likely have expanded or tried to expand by taking over other nations such as India. As it currently is, Communist China and north Korea are the 2 Communist powers in Asia which we deal with and China has done it’s expansions into Tibet, wants territory from Vietnam (1979 was last war between Vietnam and China), India (1962 war) and other places.

• Other thoughts-with the people who say Adolf Hitler was a genius, they also say that they don’t condone the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler was a short man who was weak, walked with a cane & had missing teeth. Germans I have found are usually not strong people & as Russian men are usually stronger than German men when it comes to physicial strength, German soldiers (Wehrmacht) were fighting against physically stronger Russian soldiers (Red Army) & while the Germans lost, the Germans did fight against those physically stronger than them, so some would say that it takes courage to fight against those who are physically stronger than you.

  If Hitler had died in 1938 (before the Holocaust) instead of 1945 (after millions were killed), he would have gone down as a great leader in German history. Germany and later Austria (after 1938) anschluss were advanced in many ways during Hitler’s time be it automotive science (V.W. Beetle came out in 1938), veterinary science and other things.

  Now yes, the Holocaust was a bad thing to happen & the posters who called Hitler a genius said same thing. Sending 6 million Jews + others to their deaths in concentration camps be it shootings, starving & working people to death (most cases) or gassings is a bad thing which should never have happened. I am against genocide. Jews were Holocaust victims but in the former USSR, it was Stalin’s Jewish henchmen who committed the Soviet Holocaust which took many more lives. Incidentally, not all the people killed by the Nazis in the concentration camps were good people. Yes-families, teachers, accountants, kids, etc. were killed by the Nazis & these victims are innocent. But there are SOME cases where Nazis did kill bad people. Some of the people killed in the Nazi gas vans were Soviet Red Army Commissars & Red Army Commissars were bad people so bad people sometimes killed bad people.

  #s killed in the Holodomor are way more-people were starved and worked to death, tortured, shot and killed in Dubno, Kolyma, Krasnogorsk + other Soviet GULag and many deaths being forced to work building the Trans Siberian Railways. It has been said that the Holocaust has become a 2nd religion for some Jews. But the Holodomor took many more lives. And some of Stalin’s henchmen such as Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda, Yev Mekhlis and others were Jewish, yet you get called anti-Semite if you mention this truth. Don’t think Hollywood would do a movie on Stalin’s Jewish henchmen and their complicity in the Soviet Holodomor.

  With soldiers including German soldiers if all they’re doing is fighting for their nations as they were drafted and not killing POW, not mutilating or committing genocide, then while they are fighting for wrong side (Adolf Hitler), then that is 1 thing. Now if a soldier is killing POW, mutilating or other things, then that is wrong. If any soldier be they American, British, French German, Italian, Japanese or Soviet was fighting for their nations but not committing atrocities, then I have no problem whether they fought for the right side (U.S.) or the wrong side (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy or Imperial Japan).

  The Japanese military did use slave labor. Japanese airforce had used parachuted fleabombs against China were many were killed in biological warfare. Japanese military (samurais following Bushido) sometimes forced Chinese, Filipina and Korean women into sex slavery where the women were raped by soldiers.

  Fascist Italy did use nerve gas believed mustard gas attacks against Abysinnia (now Ethiopia) during WW2, but Fascist Italy not as bad as Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. While there were Italians who followed Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (il Duce), there were Italians who opposed him and there were Italians who tried to protect Jews from the Nazi Germans.

  Yes, the German military (Wehrmacht) had it’s share or murderers & rapists. Soviet military also had it’s share of murderers and rapists. Red Army soldiers raped women and girls, mutilated POW and Red Army soldiers even killed Red Army POW who had surrendered to Germans because the Red Army soldiers refused to fight to death. Red Army officers even sent families of Soviet soldiers believed to have surrendered to GULag in the former USSR & the even executed family members of Soviet soldiers they believed surrendered.

  The idea that Soviet soldiers committed atrocities or raped girls because the U.S.S.R. was invaded is mostly rubbish. Soviet soldiers who raped 9 year old girls did that because that is what they wanted to do & the Soviet soldiers who committed atrocities had violent histories long before Operation Barbarossa. Nazis were bad, only know that the Red Army had it’s share of murderers and rapists. Nazis did many bad things. Nazi soldiers killing families, enslaving people are things which must be mentioned. Red Army had it’s share of bad.

  Soviet partisans were Communists who had violent history long before Nazi Germany’s 1941 invasion-Operation Barbarossa. Some of the Soviet partisans helped Stalin commit his 1930s Holocaust called the Holodomor, where millions of Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians & others were sent to GULag such as Krasnogorsk, Kolyma, Dubno or Workuta (North of Arctic Circle) to be starved and worked to death, shot and killed, tortured to death. Since some of the partisans were Stalin’s thugs before Operation Barbarossa, the argument that they did it to get revenge for losing relatives during Holocaust is not always true.

  Nazis were bad people, but the Commisar Order would be described as bad people killing other bad people. Soviet guerrillas were sometimes thugs and as bad as the Nazis. Some of the Soviet partisans helped Stalin commit his 1930s Holocaust called the Holodomor, where millions of Ukrainians, Latvians, Estonians & others were sent to GULag such as Krasnogorsk, Kolyma, Dubno or Workuta (North of Arctic Circle) to be starved and worked to death, shot and killed, tortured to death.

  In some cases the Nazis did kill bad people-Commissar Order where the Germans executed Stalin’s Red Army officers and partisans and again those who were executed by the Commissar Order were Communists who had taken part in Stalin’s Holodomor. In some cases, Stalin’s henchmen were killed in Nazi concentration camps. So yes, in some cases the Nazis did kill bad people-Hitler’s henchmen killing Stalin’s henchmen is what the Commissar Order was.

• Adolf Hitler in the beginning did not want to exterminate the Jews-he wanted the Jews to leave Europe during the 1930s until 1941. Paul Grubach mentioned in 2002 (I’m not a reviser) that Hitler sometimes intervened in decisions as it related to Jews such as in 1942 (during extermination program), Hitler signed an order to send 60,000 Jews to Palestine. Yes, Paul Grubach is a reviser who doesn’t believe Adolf Hitler knew of extermination program, but I don’t think Paul Grubach is a Nazi as he is mostly Polish (with some German) & Paul Grubach’s dad was a WW2 Marine who lost a toe fighting against the Imperial Japanese (Nazi Germany’s ally) during the Battle of Bouganville.