✌🏼Hitler Wasn't The Problem

His followers were...

Disclaimer. I’m not saying Hitler wasn’t the embodiment of evil. He was. Yet Hitler didn’t kill millions of Jews and non-Arians. His followers did—millions of them.

Hitler wasn’t the problem. His followers were.

Sure that’s overly simplistic, but the truth is there are evil people everywhere - both sane and insane. How did Hitler, a failed artist and drifter, get so many people to do such horrendous things?

My fascination with Hitler began in about the fourth grade. I read everything I could find in the library about him. Not realizing the implications, I got into trouble for drawing swastikas at my desk. His ability to manipulate people absolutely intrigued me, almost as much as his actual rhetoric disgusted me.

History has had its share of genocidal maniac leaders. Yet none rose so quickly and destroyed so many innocent lives. It was the perfect storm of new technologies …