(07-25-2021, 07:31 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: On another topic entirely, Christianbethel's project to rewrite the Hitler page disturbs me. In particular, his response to the Villain By Default entry strikes me as a potentially apologist move than simply rewriting it to something like "It is difficult to find a work that portrays him in anything but the most unalloyed evil light". I'm willing to stand by and see what he comes up with, but I think letting it go through should be based on a vote of all the mods.
That's why I'll be straining it like a fine-toothed comb for the historical side.
It's well known not every single one of the things Hitler did was absolutely evil. His love of highways was such a good idea Eisenhower copied it for the US. Hitler favored campaigns for animals rights and the dangers of smoking, and many laws for the former established during the Nazi regime as still intact today because they were good ideas even then.
That said, I too am leery of a full-blown rewrite. History may be written by the winners, but Hitler did lose after provable evidence of genocide, slavery, and enough war crimes to fill the pages of several weighty tomes were committed by Hitler himself and those for whom he was responsible, so whatever objective good things he was capable of, Hitler committed great objectively provable evils and no amount of provable good he did will ever erase or diminish the weight of those crimes.
If this is merely an attempt to prove "Hitler was a human being just like us, capable of great evil yet not without the capacity to do good, albeit evil was what he became infamous for", then fine. Anything else will be tossed out, and as I said, I'm not averse to getting copies of this material cited and giving it a read to verify things.