Do you consider Adolf Hitler and the Main Nazi's Intelligent?.

They were insane insane insane, but I'm always concerned about the implications as we get further removed from the era of those who lived though horrible scourge they brought on society. People who may be *technically* intelligent (will not comment on Nazi intelligence) but morally horrific could capture another nation and turn it into a genocide or omnicide machine. The strains that brought about Nazi Germany seem frighteningly possible if you give an advanced nation the level of instability that post WWI Germany had.
 
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In your view were Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and the rest of the Nazis "Intelligent " People?.
You seem to have a habit/policy/practice of posting these fairly inflammatory one or two line opening threads and then disappearing into the mists.

That IS going to stop. This Board and its members do not exists solely for your amusement or to do your research. You can either actively participate or you can lurk. What you can NOT do is what you have been doing, time and again.

Serious as a heart attack about this.
 
Hitler was a nobody and a foreigner, who ended up leading a mass movement, which lead him to power of one the world's strongest states. You don't get to do that if you're a idiot.
 
Hitler was a nobody and a foreigner, who ended up leading a mass movement, which lead him to power of one the world's strongest states. You don't get to do that if you're a idiot.

Have you ever read Mein Kampf? It clearly wasn't written by a genius. It is a incoherent mess that reads like it was written by a deranged 10 year old. It isn't just crazy but also very, very poorly written. Basically Hitler's main talent was telling people what they wanted to hear , that Germany didn't "really" lose the war but lost due to being "stabbed in the back" by their inferiors.
 
Have you ever read Mein Kampf? It clearly wasn't written by a genius. It is a incoherent mess that reads like it was written by a deranged 10 year old. It isn't just crazy but also very, very poorly written. Basically Hitler's main talent was telling people what they wanted to hear , that Germany didn't "really" lose the war but lost due to being "stabbed in the back" by their inferiors.
Mein Kampf's "writing method" was Hitler dictating a rambling diatribe to Hess, who dutifully wrote it down, while the two were imprisoned at Landsburg. I seem to remember reading somewhere that other prisoners gifted him with the typewrite the draft was written on to make Hitler STFU.
 
Have you ever read Mein Kampf? It clearly wasn't written by a genius. It is a incoherent mess that reads like it was written by a deranged 10 year old. It isn't just crazy but also very, very poorly written. Basically Hitler's main talent was telling people what they wanted to hear , that Germany didn't "really" lose the war but lost due to being "stabbed in the back" by their inferiors.

I find this belief pretty naive, you don't get power by being stupid, you need to navigate between different actors. Because the biggest problem for Hitler wasn't being elected, it was staying in charge of the Nazi party. Hitler was master of the political craft, that his politics was badly thought out and pretty much a ad hoc model based on personal belief, have very little to do with his intelligence, in fact looking at Hitlers education anything other would be pretty weird.
 
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