re: Was Hitler any worse than Alexanderthe Great , Caesar, ect...?

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How about you start your research with the labor treasury certificates his government issued that allowed Nazi Germany to climb out of an economic depression many times worse than the one we Americans were suffering with throughout the 30s? There are many, many reasons that he shouldn't be discounted in a discussion of who was the "greatest statesman of all time," that is but one of several examples that show he's in the running. A maniac, undoubtedly. Genius? Perhaps that too. He's not exactly admirable but he deserves more credit than he gets.

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Yes, let's discuss his economic "miracles" and the fact that he was borrowing and using so much money to rearm that the economic revival experienced in pre-war Germany would have eventually collapsed as Hitler's economic policies were entirely dependent not only on war, but a successful prosecution of war, and without that the German economy would have eventually crumbled. German economic officers were already warning Hitler about the impending collapse as early as 1937/1938. They knew the entire economic boom was really an illusion and without military conquest it was bound to collapse.