Hitler ordered reprieve to his World War I Jewish commander in 1940 (though revoked a year later) - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Drsalvador;36692281]not really, if you look at many other military uniforms they're very similar. the only reason anyone likes nazi uniforms is because Hugo Boss designed them, and the taboo accossiated with them. if the Nazis had worn cheeseburger hats, people would love them instead.[/QUOTE] their uniforms were similar to most, but they were black, foghat grey, and red. that's simply a stylish colour scheme, and it's stylish because it's very, very villainous. sort like a chocolate cake, if chocolate cakes were made of nettle and made by Hugo Boss.

honestly i don't think hitler was evil i don't think he was right, and i sure as hell don't agree with what he did, but i don't think he was evil

[video=youtube;SYjnyU0EzIw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYjnyU0EzIw[/video] Hitler was an innocent man. He just fell to peer pressure.

[QUOTE=zzzz;36671934]I wonder why someone as cold and heartless as hitler didn't just let him go to a camp[/QUOTE] Actually, interestingly enough Hitler didn't want to kill the Jews orignally. His initial plan was to ship them off to Madagascar or some other remote location away from Nazi lands (should they have conquered all they wanted, that is). If I remember correctly, it was Himmler that showed Hitler that it was much more economically feasible to just kill them. Fucking clocks. [editline]9th July 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Scrimp;36673818]I wouldn't mind spending a few days with him. It would be very interesting.[/QUOTE] Orson Welles actually had the opportunity to have dinner with Hitler. He said he was one of the least interesting people he'd ever met, that without his shouting and hate-mongering he was just a dull, bland little man with no notable qualities what-so-ever. [video=youtube;r1fauAc48tA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1fauAc48tA[/video]

[QUOTE=Mon;36696232]honestly i don't think hitler was evil i don't think he was right, and i sure as hell don't agree with what he did, but i don't think he was evil[/QUOTE] Killing people is pretty evil if you ask me.

[QUOTE=Jacinth;36700753]Killing people is pretty evil if you ask me.[/QUOTE] If you think about it, Hitler really didn't kill anyone himself. Himmler ran the SS. Hitler was mostly just the poster boy of the Nazi Party. He shouted the rhetoric but didn't do any of the killings. If I remember correctly (I could be wrong with this), there isn't any actual evidence that shows Hitler directly ordered Jews and other "subhumans" to be killed at all. If there ever was paperwork with Hitler's signature on it, it's been lost to time.

[QUOTE=Zero-Point;36700628]Actually, interestingly enough Hitler didn't want to kill the Jews orignally. His initial plan was to ship them off to Madagascar or some other remote location away from Nazi lands (should they have conquered all they wanted, that is). If I remember correctly, it was Himmler that showed Hitler that it was much more economically feasible to just kill them.[/quote] The Madagascar Plan is what you're thinking of. Paul Boetticher, the Prussian orientalist, originally came up with the idea in 1885. France almost implemented it in the 1890s following the Dreyfus Affair when antisemitism was running high throughout the country (around the same time they began colonizing the island itself). The British considered sending them off to Madagascar a couple of times and even considered in the early 1900s plans to create a sovereign Jewish state in Africa (which never came to fruition, of course). The Nazis never shipped them off to Madagascar because, despite the fact it belonged to their Vichy allies, it was just logistically unfeasible. So, in late 1941, that's when the decision was made by Himmler to enact "Einsatz Reinhard" (the extermination program)- which didn't actually begin until March 1942 when the labor camp at Belzec had been totally converted into a death camp. The plan was totally abandoned in May of that same year by the Nazis because Madagascar was being besieged by British forces, and it finally fell in November. [QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;36701048]If I remember correctly (I could be wrong with this), there isn't any actual evidence that shows Hitler directly ordered Jews and other "subhumans" to be killed at all. If there ever was paperwork with Hitler's signature on it, it's been lost to time.[/QUOTE] That is correct. He did order Aktion T4, which authorized physicians to euthanize and sterilize citizens afflicted by hereditary mental and physical disabilities, but not the Final Solution- or Einsatz Reinhard for that matter.

He seemed like a complex guy, just imagine if those art snobs were nice to him.