It has been a thrilling pastime for those who want to equate the rise of National Socialism to a few pimply faced teenagers. By pinning National Socialism with the atrocities and war, it ensures to stifle and positive and or open discussion of National Socialism. It is a skillfull art of those who control the past, by controlling the present, to deter any and all honest inquiries into the realm of history with regard to Hitler. And all too often when we hear his name we think of "Holocaust" and "Hater" and "madman", but never the real man.
As someone who has read Mein Kampf, and has taken to a more revisionist approach to history ( if it is the truth it can't be revisionist ), I'll be the first to tell you that there are many myths about Hitler and National Socialism in general, not that I am a supporter, but I believe in historical accuracy, and if Marx, Communism/Marxism and Democracy can get their fair share of attention, why not National Socialism and Hitler?
Thousands of books written on the guy, and not one dare approach it honestly. Hitler, and his views for as long as after WW2, has been demonized in books, films, documentaries, schools, etc. I would offer you a book on Hitler, but I find it no justice and perhaps the best book to read is Hitler's own book, Mein Kampf.
Many have dismissed Hitler's intellectual outlook as simplistic and crude or even crazy, nto because they have studied, but because that is popular. Most mainstream historians, for fear of being blackballed or labeled with the tarbrush of "anti-Semitism" will give up on intellectual and historical honesty and integrity, to save themselves the trouble of being accused as hate mongers, ala David Irving who was in a trial with the Jewish historian Deborah Lipstadt for slander in her book towards Irving regarding his views on questioning the Holocaust, of course he was accused of being a "Denier".
But when one reads into Hitler, one sees a genuine intellectual on a par with Karl Marx, Freud, etc. He's sort of a synthesis of Spengler and Napoleon, and of all the world conquerors he had probably been the most 'philosophical'. Hitler's outlook was very much a part of the Western intellectual tradition. In his combination of an almost religious faith with a revolutionary secularism he represented the continuation of an essentially "enlightenment" style of thought. Nazism, and especially Hitler's exposition of it, represented an attenuated and popularized form of the Enlightenment style of thought, in my opinion, one based on the natural inequalities and imperfections of nature.
As someone who has read Mein Kampf, and has taken to a more revisionist approach to history ( if it is the truth it can't be revisionist ), I'll be the first to tell you that there are many myths about Hitler and National Socialism in general, not that I am a supporter, but I believe in historical accuracy, and if Marx, Communism/Marxism and Democracy can get their fair share of attention, why not National Socialism and Hitler?
Thousands of books written on the guy, and not one dare approach it honestly. Hitler, and his views for as long as after WW2, has been demonized in books, films, documentaries, schools, etc. I would offer you a book on Hitler, but I find it no justice and perhaps the best book to read is Hitler's own book, Mein Kampf.
Many have dismissed Hitler's intellectual outlook as simplistic and crude or even crazy, nto because they have studied, but because that is popular. Most mainstream historians, for fear of being blackballed or labeled with the tarbrush of "anti-Semitism" will give up on intellectual and historical honesty and integrity, to save themselves the trouble of being accused as hate mongers, ala David Irving who was in a trial with the Jewish historian Deborah Lipstadt for slander in her book towards Irving regarding his views on questioning the Holocaust, of course he was accused of being a "Denier".
But when one reads into Hitler, one sees a genuine intellectual on a par with Karl Marx, Freud, etc. He's sort of a synthesis of Spengler and Napoleon, and of all the world conquerors he had probably been the most 'philosophical'. Hitler's outlook was very much a part of the Western intellectual tradition. In his combination of an almost religious faith with a revolutionary secularism he represented the continuation of an essentially "enlightenment" style of thought. Nazism, and especially Hitler's exposition of it, represented an attenuated and popularized form of the Enlightenment style of thought, in my opinion, one based on the natural inequalities and imperfections of nature.
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