NP Evaluating Hitler (was Re: Nazi ideology)

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, davemarc wrote:

> > From: Paul Mackin <pmackin at clark.net>
> > 
> > It's as if he WANTED to lose. But I don't suppose Hitler wanted to lose
> > any more than Bill Gates wanted to be broken up. However great success
> > can cause great blindnesses and unavoidable mistakes in judgement (it
> > would seem).
> 
> I don't think that applies in Hitler's case.  His blindnesses and mistakes
> seem to have been more  endemic, caused not by "great success" but by
> monomania, pathological hatreds, fundamental incompetence, etc.

These factor certainly had to do with his crimes and no doubt also with
his reaching farther than his grasp. But don't you think such ease of
marching around the Maginot Line and pushing the Brits into the
English Channel would give just about anyone a feeling of invincibility?
I certainly don't discount the other causes you mention however.
			p.