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Originally Posted by Russ
Ok Hitler did some *positive* things. He got Germany working again. He got their autobahns running. So on that basis yes he did do some good.
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This is a claim often made, however it’s a fallacy. If you’re assessing someone’s legacy you can’t pick an arbitrary end date, at which point you declare something a success. Otherwise, I could throw myself off a cliff and claim to have learned the secret of flight. And I will seem to have done so, until I hit the rocks - which is exactly what Hitler’s policies did to Germany. His economic and infrastructure reforms were directly linked to militarisation, misappropriation of wealth (mostly of Jews), then annexation of foreign territories and mobilisation of national sentiment by creating scapegoats (again, mostly against Jews). The ‘good’ Hitler did can’t be decoupled from the inevitable consequences of the way he went about it.