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Revelation34 posted...

Nah he improved nothing. Also those were both claims from books without any way to prove them true. The Ghandi one especially sounds batshit insane.

I think that came from a Cracked article.

Anyways, assuming he did do those things, sure. I'll give him credit for those. I won't play any favorites here. If I'm crediting the Khan for building a large empire and vastly improving trade routes despite knowing what he did in certain places (IIRC he destroyed so much of the Iraq waterworks that the land is still desert to this day), or Stalin for his help in WWII despite knowing about things like the gulags and such, I'm willing to toss the same bone to Hitler. Fair is fair. But, knowing what I've seen of him before, I suspect those things happened in SPITE of Hitler, not because of him.

If I'm going to focus on the facts, history, and the like I don't get to pick and choose what did or didn't happen. Even if I personally despise the man for putting nazi bullet holes in my family tree if he really did those things I won't suddenly deny that they didn't happen just because I dislike him immensely. Blind zealotry doesn't make me smart, it makes me a fanatic who can't see reality.