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What they don’t usually tell you about Hitler

Old_JoeOld_Joe
in Off-Topic
Here's an extract from a current article in the Spanish newspaper EL PAÍS. One of you fine people introduced me to this newspaper a few months ago, by providing a link to it concerning a subject we were discussing at that time. I added it to my list of news sources, and have been rewarded nicely for that.

Don't be put off by the first sentence here- just ask yourself if it describes anyone active in our current state of disrepair.
Quétel bases his conclusions on the memoirs and diaries of Speer, Goebbels, Traudl Junge, Von Manstein, Von Papn and Riefenstahl, among others, and points out that when we examine Hitler we are left wondering how such a mediocre individual who was “chronically idle” and “of little more than average intelligence, borderline in terms of mental health, was able to become the absolute master of the Third Reich and push the world towards the most atrocious of conflicts.”

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  • DrVenture
    Nailed it!
  • CrashCrash
    But Der Fuhrer was a marvelous dancer!
  • DrVenture
    Some people have said that he was a "deal maker".

    And people tell me that he cheated at golf.
  • AndyJ
    Well, that someone active in our current state of disrepair is of less than average intelligence (except for extortion and lying, where he lands in the top 0.0001%) and well below the borderline in mental health. So Adolf may compare favorably with that individual.
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