Saturday, June 29, 2013


Adolf Hitler
1889–1945

15 Adolf Hitler And Joseph Goebbels (In Box) At Charlottenburg Theatre, Berlin, 1939
Google searches: 6.1 million+ per month
Number of books: c. 175,000
We have covered Hitler many times on Listverse, but rarely 
from a somewhat historiometric perspective. We all know 
that he remains the primary cause of WWII. He instigated it to 
suit two profound desires: to become the most powerful 
person on Earth, preferably in history, if not to rule the 
whole world; and, for his own enjoyment, to cause as much 
pain as possible against all those he deemed responsible for 
Germany’s humiliating and miserable defeat in WWI, and 
its squalid poverty between the wars. Germany was forced to 
pay every other nation’s wartime expenses after the First 
World War, and this utterly destroyed Germany’s economy. 
The Deutschmark became so worthless that children burned 
millions of them at once to keep warm in the streets.
The Jews, meanwhile, largely kept their money in gold and 
jewelry, safe in international banks. Gold and diamonds 
do not depreciate, and Hitler seized on his own hatred of 
the Jews’ prosperity in the Interbellum to sway as many 
people to his side as possible. Add to this a supreme 
mastery of oratory, and history is about to suffer a severe 
catastrophe. WWII resulted in more deaths than any other 
war, up to 71 million, and Hitler is the most to blame. 
He knew and was not ashamed. He was despised and happy 
about it.
He is routinely listed alongside the following names on lists 
of the most evil people, real or fictitious, in history, especially 
those of public polls: “the Devil;” “Satan;” “Lucifer;” “Stalin.” 
The current US President (whoever it is) is usually next, 
although recently elected popes can unseat him. It can be argued 
that Hitler shaped the 20th Century more than any other person, 
except possibly Einstein, and Hitler is the only person of the 
20th or 21st Century on this list. Quite an impressive ranking 
to have been dead for only 68 years.
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