Rowe said:
BigT's got a good point here. I mean, if we ignore the Aryan policies, xenophobia and mass extermination, then clearly we can see Hitler liked dogs and that's a wonderfully sympathetic thing to behold. And everybody in their right mind likes dogs, so therefore Hitler isn't all that bad!
I haven't even read the first post, I don't think I need to - the subject question was easy enough to answer without doing so lol!!
BUT, we do have much to think Hitler for.
Yes, I'm serious.
The fact he ploughed so much time/energy and finance into the space programs for example, and advanced technology - without which, so much of our modern technological advancements (not all of them good, obviously) would not have existed!
The scientists taken into Russia/USA by way of Project Paperclip et al, is the reason we have anything in space at all now - which is how we have GPS, Mobile Phones, etc etc. Without the Moon landings, none of this would exist - and without the likes of Wernher Von Braun none of this would have happened, or if so, far far later!!
The US rocket program was a farce up until that point - the Nazi's were so far ahead it's ridiculous - and with a Nation focused unlike any other, on a single goal to be the most powerful, and unified in the fashion it was, with typical almost robot like German efficiency - what else did you expect?
Hitler, we all know (well I would hope) what we think of that man. I'm not here either to discuss the question, but I felt it was time to add another perspective/dimension that most probably will know, but some may not.
So next time your Sat-Nav tries to drive you across a field - you can officially thank the Nazi's.
For all I cannot stand the man for all the obvious reasons, I also find his obsession with the occult and search for items such as the Holy Grail fascinating.
A strange time in history indeed.
(Incidentally, a very good friend of mine, has family who had to hide out in the forest for a number of years to escape the Nazi's. A film was made of their journey and trials, absolutely incredible that they survived and what they went through).
WWII bought much to light which so few actually bother to research and look into, it was an horrendous time, but we should now look for the things that came from this time that have actually moved our race on. If we did this more, we may even live a more peaceful existence on a planetary level.
