[blueerica]

I like nontroversy.

In the sense that this quote seems to have been taken (I am online for the first time in a few days and am catching up, so I'm not reading for every detail in this thread), it seems to me that this isn't useful as far as just talking about Hitler, but talking about a myriad of choices that are made here and there, consistently, and everything in between. The same comparisons could be made of any leader, and of any one of us... that what we do now we may think of as "good" -- but perhaps it isn't.

Well, I guess I'm just saying that the quote is particularly relevant when looking at other subjects and persons. Compare a Hitler to a George Bush, to a JFK, to Kim Jong Il, to whomever... though Hitler pretty much made the benchmark on "evil," had things turned out differently in history, we might... or rather they might say the same of others.

I mean, what if the Nazis won? Would we/they be saying he was so evil? It's hard to say what this alternate reality would hold for us, and certainly there were enough people supporting Hitler and his ideas to have kept him in power as long as he was.