NP Evaluating Hitler (was Re: Nazi ideology)

[davemarc]

> 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.

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