If You Write It

Relax Max has been going on about Hitler recently and pondering the meaning of it all. Hitler has long ago stopped being a person and become a cartoon of himself-the recent Inglorious Basterds giving the old boy what he so richly deserved and the oddly compelling Valkyrie trying to save The Third Reich before it was too late. I also love the many re-dialogues of The Bunker in which Hitler is painted as a Dallas Cowboys fan, among other things.

World War Two was a direct result of the Industrial Revolution, and if it had not been Hitler and company, it would have been Someone else and company. The only reason we are free to talk about these thing today-and not be merely waves of potentiality is that the Nazis and the Japanese didn’t fully understand the power of the Atom. Of course, neither did the Allies, but that didn’t stop them from going ahead and building The Bomb.

It was all about Technology. Machine guns and tanks and jets and rockets and those nifty gadgets that the North and South played around with until they ran out of the will to keep slaughtering each other. Soubriquet makes an excellent point that the Nazis really triumphed through the best Branding Campaign in history. I have always thought the SS uniforms to be among the best in military history, right behind those bright red uniforms the Brits were so found in Victorian times.

I like most of the theories that say there was something physically wrong with Hitler. That he had syphilis or Parkinson’s disease or that he suffered from Asperger syndrome, which would open up a whole world of interesting possibilities. There is also the notion that Hitler began using amphetamines occasionally after 1937 and became addicted to amphetamines after the late summer of 1942. Any of this would mean that Hitler didn’t really live in the same world as those around him.

Adolph Hitler is the textbook example of Evil, but Hitler lived in a time before one man could end the world by himself. We have lived in that happy world since the 1950s, again thanks to Technology. I love technology, but it can be a real bitch.

Joseph Stalin, Chairman Mao, and The Khmer Rouge also have their places of dishonor as far as Death Tolls go. The Khmer Rouge is usually given the dishonor of the highest toll as they are reported to have killed off as much as 25 percent of their country’s population. The Nazi’s only killed off about 7 percent of their populations-though that number was closer to 90 percent for certain Jewish populations.

There are still people that think the Nazis were right and there are still people in Former Soviet Union States that wish the USSR was still around.

Does it matter if Adolph Hitler was just a misunderstood man with a brain that didn’t quite work right? No, it doesn’t. It matters that so many people were willing to do whatever he said anyway.

I tend to like more Science Fictional Hitlers-

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