I hope it comes with a foreword warning about the dangers of charismatic psychos. Hitler alongside Stalin and possibly Genghis Khan are the worst criminals / mass murderers the world has ever seen.
Makes Charles Manson look like a baby holding a lollipop.
Yes. Exactly. There is a quip by Hitler - “What luck it is for rulers that men do not think.” Look at what blind obedience got the Germans. Eternal vigilance is the price of democracy.
You can learn what NOT to do. You can learn to see the signs of approaching dictatorship. You can see what depths of depravity humanity can sink to, and learn how to oppose it. No. You can’t learn anything constructive from Hitler, but you can learn how to predict future Hitlers.
His early years spent growing up poor in Southern California really shaped his later philosophies. Being poor there made him bitter and it was a little known fact but when he was head of Germany just the sight of a surfboard or a song by the Beach Boys would cause him to fly into fits of uncontrolable rage.
Before I go blank myself there is much to learn from Hitler. It don’t mean that it will be positive and good.
But the reason so many books are written about Adolph Hitler and WWII is because the story of one man who galvanized a nation into following his rascist views is facinating in history. What he accomplished and what he “almost” accomplished is no small feat To dismiss Hitler as a one-dimensional leader who tried to turn the world into one big Arryan run
nation is not giving him credit. Sure he was evil, but he’s a case study for our and future generation. Anyone who can consistently stand up in front of an audience of a 100,000 people or more and inspire them with his speeches and move all of them and most of the nation is a man who should be studied and analyzed.