My apologies if the following post is considered off-topic. Perhaps it will be insightful and considered relevant to recent posts.
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Hitler had an agenda. In his quest for power he first barked and sought to be seen... and in his later days used others to wage his battles whilst he hid as a coward from the bombs dropped above onto the people he had betrayed.
He used the greatness of others until he had exhausted their resources, crushed their spirits, hopes and beliefs. He respected few if any, and burned the lives of millions as a result. He left a generation in conflict and despair. Decades of suffering followed because of his unnecessary and unwanted agenda forged to satiate his ego, his delusions and maniacal fantasies.
It is not for me to judge Hitler. I believe his historical significance is irrelevant to the newer generations born in an era of hope. His collective influence serves only to guide strategy against such future manipulation, to show humanity what it must not become - ever - lest we seed ruin upon our species and our planet.
Today I believe he is viewed as a sad figure who thrust himself upon the stage to take advantage of a broken, leaderless people slaved in darkness, post the Great War and Depression. His early success fuelled the populace with lies and false truths until his agenda eventually reached its disastrous conclusion.
He was lucid and he led, but his uncontrolled ego and psychosis took over his mind, his people, Europe and the world turned down a terrible path. He thought he was being noble, but it’s clear that he was not. He possessed qualities by which he could have done good work and may have been held in high regard, yet all these qualities and efforts were wasted, smashed and rotten by his shameful actions and unchecked insanity. Faith and all else was destroyed.
If only he had possessed the same desire to look upon himself in equal measure as his desired agenda. Perhaps then he would have understood what it is to be noble as opposed to mad - to contribute to and not destroy. If only he had changed his path before it was too late. If he was a great man, a good man, a decent man, or ... just a man with grace within him.... he would have been helped if he had sought it. But he played his cards and those of his follower nation until he had no more to squander.
Yes, he was hated by the good men who put him down at great cost, but even more so by the people whose trust he had abused. He failed – and before he took his own life – he knew that he had failed.
What then humanity?
Consider that if you will.
Truly sad.
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Now back to the investigation
