Барбоса;2322106 said:It is a bad thing because he forced a military rebuild on a country that was not ready for it and would have eventually recovered anyway.
Sure it would've eventually recovered. However to what extend? Who's to say that Germany would ever have recovered to the level that Hitler brought it, or that it wouldn't have surpassed Hitler's visions? We will never know. However it's obvious that while Hitler might have rushed it for a war, to recover the image that Germany lost during World War 1, it was still a successful recovery was it not? Bad or good concept, it was successful.
It was a bad thing because instead of gearing his people and industry for Total War, he should have been building long term industries and farming. Even Volkswagen produced more military machinery than actual civilian cars (and owes its continue existence after the war to a Brit). His social, economic and foreign policies were all the same - war
Sure, I can agree with that Barbosa. However just because he geared it for total war, except for a long time expansion and powerful rule, doesn't mean that it wasn't a good thing. However I won't discredit the potential for it to have been a bad thing. However the love for a country, to go so far to rebuild it in the glory it once was, I repeat, how could that possibly be bad?
It is also a bad thing because of why he did it. It was not to retake Germany's place as a powerhouse (a concept that was only 60 years old at the time) - it was to establish a Reich that was to last 1000 years.
Yeah I know. But he sure as hell ain't the first. If he had the vision to make Germany the 3rd Reich that was to rule like nobody else, sure it's a little power hungry, but the basic of it is a pure and good thing if you look at it the right way, is it not?
Considering the fact that obviously Hitler loved Germany, (Surprisingly enough seeing as he was from Austria, however German roots I believe, right?) he definitely had long time plans, for after the war.
Hitler is not the first, and sure as hell won't be the last one that will get power hungry to the extend of wanting to rule a whole continent, hell the whole world, and will try to do it. Hitler however is arguably one of, if not the one guy that had most success with it (Did he not conquer about the majority of Europe?)