Hitler was Worse than Stalin

OK, now didn't I say that round one is for acceptance? That means that in round one you only say "I accept" and nothing else. I will refute Con's anyway. "Hitler believed in a pure Germany, and was supportive to real Germans. Whilst Stalin was only supportive to the people that supported Stalin. Also, Stalin killed many more people than Hitler did." OK, that is complteley incorrect. Hitler did NOT support real Germans. Jews are real Germans. Homosexuals were real Germans. Disabled people were real Germans. Did he support them? No, he killed them. Also, Con does not bother to say how many people Stalin and Hitler killed, he just says that Stalin killed more. I will state how many people the two dictators killed. Number of people Stalin killed: 20-60 million (20 million is the most widely accepted number). Number of people Hitler killed: 20-30 million. *Note: these numbers don't include the soldiers killed in combat during WWII. However numbers alone don't explain who was worse. Mao Zedong was possibly responsible for the death of more people than either Hitler or Stalin. In the great famine alone, around 40 million Chinese people died. One of the biggest differences between Hitler and Stalin is that while most of the people Stalin killed were people living in the USSR, most of the people Hitler killed were people living in other countries. Some statistics on the people Hitler killed: 6 million Polish civilians 12 million Soviet civilians 6 million Jews In addition to this, millions of allied POW's (including some 3 million Red Army soldiers) died in German POW camps. Reasons Hitler killed people: -Because he considered them inferior. Hitler believed that Jews and other people who were not "Aryan" were inferior to the German master race. The people who Hitler considered to be Aryan were mostly people living in eastern Europe, especially Poles and Soviets. There were also multiple "minority groups" that Hitler killed . -Because he considered them to be useless. This was especially true with disabled people. Those who were not capable slaves for the Reich had to be killed. -In order to help destroy opposition. This applies to all dictators. Hitler took power by destroying all opposition. Reasons Stalin killed people: -Because he was paranoid and feared betrayal. This was especially true with Stalin's great purges. Many Red Army and political officials were purged because Stalin feared betrayal. -Stalin's collectivization starved millions of people. Stalin believed that in order to make the USSR industrialized and powerful, he needed to take food grown by peasant farmers and sell it in cities. -In order to destroy opposition. This applies to all dictators. Stalin took power by destroying all opposition. The difference: The main difference you notice is that Hitler killed people because he did not like them and Stalin killed people who he considered to be "threats". People Hitler did not like: -Jews -Communists -Gypsy's -Homosexuals -The disabled -Other minority groups People that Stalin considered threats: -Everybody, even his the people closest to him. According to Stalin, anybody could be a threat. The obvious: Hitler killed people who he did not like. Stalin killed people who his paranoid mind thought were threats. In other words, Hitler killed millions of people because he thought they were inferior. Stalin killed millions of people because he was paranoid and thought they were threats. Some people Stalin that Stalin killed, he killed because they were threats. One such example was the Kulaks in Ukraine. Stalin had a reason to kill the people he killed. Hitler simply killed people because he didn't like them. New Argument: OK, now as I stated above, Hitler killed 20-30 million people. Most of those people were killed in four years, between 1941-1945. Hitler's Concentration Camps for example, only came up to full speed iin late 1943 and 1944. Hitler was in power for 12 years. Stalin on the other hand was in power for 28 years. From this you can conclude that Hitler killed people at a much faster rate than Stalin. Therefor, the fact that Stalin killed more says nothing. "Stalin was determined to be the Russian leader despite Lenin's desire that someone else be selected, preferably Trotsky." And there were many people who would rather have had a different German leader as opposed to Hitler. "Any person that interfered or opposed Stalin was eliminated using dirty and deceitful tactics." Hitler did the exact same thing. Therefor, this is not an argument. "Also, Stalin's purges of politicians and prominent social figures to keep his position as leader was evil in nature." Like I stated earlier, this was due to the fact that Stalin was paranoid about people being a threat. "Stalin used civilians and members of the military to clear land mines by walking through the minefield." I'm not sure about the accuracy of this statement. However Hitler did the exact same thig. "He would also force them to the front lines even without weapons." Yes, there were some cases where the Red Army lacked weapons and were soldiers had to pick up the weapons of other soldiers who had already died. However is attempting to defeat the Germans a crime? "Hitler's programs were not directed against his own people. He was determined to remove his enemies, but he did not direct his killing against his own German people." There were many Jews that were "Hitler's own people". They did not try to overthrow or undermine Hitler. But they were still eliminated. Conclusion: Hitler killed people at a much faster rate than Stalin. Hitler also killed people for complete different reasons. Stalin killed people who were definite or possible threats. Hitler simply killed anybody who was inferior, and most people who were not German were inferior. Stalin did not care about race. As long as people did as he said, he was fine. Con's only real argument so far was that Stalin killed more people than Hitler. Sources: http://www.cyberussr.com...