Is it wrong to look up to hitler for his determination and drive?

"Does anyone else notice the genius in his evil ways?"

Okay, let's take an objective look at end results.

- the genius in his evil ways so to speak did her Germany most of not more territory that was taken as a result of what many now deem to be the unfair and unjust 'The Treaty of Versailles' 'tis true; with a minimum of blood-letting also with is a positive granted... to be the devil's advocate.

- yes Germany got it's feel back on the ground in a large part to being an arms producer and that got people jobs and funds pumping into the economy; created Autobahns; in essence did the same as the USA to get out of the Depression industrialization related.

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The world's first jet fighter during an RAF and USAAF bombing offensive, Germany develops the worlds first jet aircraft proposed to be a sign;e seat two-engine fighter and Hitler says "There's my Blitz Bomber!" insisting 500 pound bombs be strapped to it's belly.

Hmmm...

No retreat in Russia, no strategy withdrawal to straighten the lines allowed.. the Germans already spread far too thinly denied the right of strategy maneuverability so were left defending 500 miles of some front lines when it could've been lessened to 300 miles - that a huge difference.

Germany declares "Total War" (by definition every and all resources a country has goes only and exclusively for the production and maintaining of warfare; no restrictions) but ends up being the only major countrry not to follow through; USA, Britain, USSR, Canada all mass producing with women in factories; Germany didn't start full mass production until during the war and never did employ women in factories.

Hitler's many blunders are the stuff of legend. Anyways...

End result Germany losing a good quarter of the country, an iron wall of Communism, families divided.

Occupied by the Allies whole.

Determination and drive the man had... but someone can be great at technology and the will to get something done but if the application is wrong you just end up in negative numbers; nothing positive about it.

Yes, it's wrong. Leaving all moral issues aside (which is very difficult, but let's pretend), he didn't really HAVE "determination." Trump is just like Hitler in this way (and many other ways). He has bluster, he has arrogance, but true "determination" would include spending as much effort as necessary to find out the facts and to face the unpleasant truths when the real world doesn't fit your imaginary ideal world. At the end, Hitler was ordering movements of whole armies that didn't actually exist any more. That's not the mark of a "determined" man. It's the mark of a psychopath, like Hitler, and like Trump.

In opinion yes, Hitler's determination and drive was fueled by hate. There are many good people in history that had determination and drive if you're looking for someone to look up to.

there are plenty of better examples of determined and driven people you can look up to (people who were not evil.)

besides, hitler's methods were not even his own.

everything he did was demonically inspired.

hitler had access to secret knowledge, derived from occult practices that enabled him to receive instruction from unclean spirits.

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consider the final words of hitler's spiritual mentor from the thule society:

“Follow Hitler. He will dance, but it is I who have called the tune. I have initiated him into the secret doctrine, opened his centers in vision and given him the means to communicate with the Powers. Do not mourn for me. I shall have influenced history more than any other German.”

-Dietrich Eckart (dying words, 1923)

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if you succeed by using the same techniques hitler used, you will wind up spending eternity in the same place where he is now.

so.... not such a good deal.

Ted Bundy was pretty damn clever too. He was even captured at one point only to escape , to kill a 12 year old girl.

I guess you ought to look up to pedophiles and child murderers.

Hitler had no qualms about murdering children in gas chambers.

If you are a complete loser and brain-dead moron, sure it's okay to look up to Hitler.

Yes. His determination and drive was towards hideous cruelty and mass murder. If only he had listened to the 'nay sayers' if by that you mean the people who disagreed with the murder of the sick and the handicapped and the slaughter of millions of people because they were Jewish or Roma.

Genius does not lead a country into disastrous war, leaving it bankrupt, broken and divided.

There are plenty of other people who have succeeded through terrible hardship, but you choose a failure to admire. Then you try to dress it up with protestations of disgust.

Do you really think you are not as transparent as a window? All the depth and subtlety of a puddle left by a puppy.

His determination and drive drove his nation to ruin and an entire race perilously close to extermination.

He almost certainly had a very low iq.