- British Historian Paul Johnson on Hitler
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- "Among historians, it is still considered morally
essential to demonize Hitler and to condemn unreservedly everything he
and the Nazis did. But there are compelling reasons, quite apart from the
interests of objective scholarship, why this should end.
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- "Though from a humble background and poorly educated,
Hitler possessed a fierce intelligence, a strong artistic imagination,
and great powers of articulation. His career as a soldier in World War
I testified to his courage, and everything he caused to happen afterward
showed a strength of will rare at any time.
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- To this he added formidable organizational powers, the
capacity to inspire loyalty, strategic clarity balanced by tactical flexibility,
and oratory of a high order, spiced with a valuable talent for making people
laugh. His creation, virtually from scratch, of a nationwide mass political
party that he drove forward to electoral victory in what was then perhaps
the best-educated country in the world, all in little over a decade, has
few parallels in the history of politics."
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- -- Paul Johnson, British Historian. 'The Anti-Semitic
Disease' Commentary, June 2005
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- To read the entire essay -
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- http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=11906035_1
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