What they don’t usually tell you about Hitler

Old_Joe

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.”

DrVenture

Nailed it!

Crash

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.

DrVenture

It's been reported that Hitler was a big fan of fast food cheeseburgers.

Observant1

I don't think the Führer was very fond of Mickey D's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYNSMpi37fg

DrVenture

@Observant1 That is an excellent historical documentary clip.

All it takes is a small incident like that to radicalize a narcissistic sociopath. Same thing happened when Obama joked about trump. Next thing that you know, you have an immigrant holocaust on your hands.