Hitler wasn't the bad guy

I'm all for defending people, but some people are simply un-defendable. Hitler is one of them. Once the History is laid down in all its gory glory, I think there will be no room for doubt of the fact that Hitler was "a bad guy".Hitler is most infamously known for 2 main things:1) Hitler's aggressive foreign policy is considered the main cause of the outbreak of World War II in Europe.2) Hitlers antisemitic policies and racially motivated ideology resulted in the deaths of at least 6 million Jews and millions of other people deemed racially inferior.Before I get into those 2, I want to mention a lesser known Hitlerian policy which is not as bad & not as well know as the previous 2. Hitlers' policy of book banning & burning policy:The official list was published by the "Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung and Propaganda" or "The Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda". Authors, living and dead, were placed on the list because of Jewish descent, or because of the pacifist or communist sympathies or suspicion thereof. The list included authors like; Albert Einstein (latter named "Times man of the century"), & Sigmund Freud (Father of Psycology, psychotherapy, & psychiatry). Both of these authors, as well as numerous others, were banned simply because they are of the "inferior" Jewish race.In May and June 1933, in the first year of the Nazi government, there were book burnings. These book bans compose a part of the history of censorship and a subset of the list of banned books.After World War II started, the Germans created indexes of prohibited books in countries they occupied, by works in languages other than German. For example, in occupied Poland, an index of 1,500 prohibited authors was created.Antisemitism, Expansionism, WWII, Euthinazia, Ethnic purification, & the holocaust:In a meeting with German military leaders on 3 February 1933, Hitler spoke of "conquest for Lebensraum in the East and its ruthless Germanisation" as his ultimate foreign policy objectives.Lebensraum is German for "habitat" or literally "living room". The Nazis supported territorial expansionism to gain Lebensraum ("living space") as being a law of nature for all healthy and vigorous peoples of superior races to displace people of inferior races. In March 1936, Germany reoccupied the demilitarized zone in the Rhineland in violation of the Versailles Treaty. November Hitler restated his intention of acquiring Lebensraum for the German people.On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded western Poland, thus beginning WWII, the largest & most deadly war the world has ever known. The fall of Poland was followed by Sitzkrieg in which Hitler "Germanised" (I.E. Ethnically cleaned) Poland.Next, Hitler began a military build-up on Germany's western border, and in April 1940, German forces invaded Denmark and Norway. On 9 April, Hitler proclaimed the birth of the "Greater Germanic Reich", his vision of a united empire of the Germanic nations of Europe, where the Dutch, Flemish, and Scandinavians were joined into a "racially pure" polity under German leadership.In May 1940, Germany attacked France, and conquered Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium.In October, Hitler began bombing British cities, including London, Plymouth, and Coventry. In April 1941, Hitler launched the invasion of Yugoslavia, quickly followed by the invasion of Greece. In May, German forces were sent to support Iraqi rebel forces fighting against the British and to invade Crete.On 22 June 1941, Hitler violated the Hitler–Stalin non-aggression pact of 1939, 5.5 million troops attacked the Soviet Union. This large-scale offensive was intended to destroy the Soviet Union and seize its natural resources for subsequent aggression against the Western powers. The invasion conquered a huge area, including the Baltic republics, Belarus, and West Ukraine. On 7 December 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Four days later, Hitler formally declared war against the United States.On 18 December 1941, Himmler asked Hitler, "What to do with the Jews of Russia?", to which Hitler replied, "als Partisanen auszurotten" ("exterminate them as partisans").The Holocaust and Germany's war in the East was based on Hitler's long-standing view that the Jews were the great enemy of the German people and that Lebensraum was needed for the expansion of Germany. He focused on Eastern Europe for this expansion, aiming to defeat Poland and the Soviet Union and on removing or killing the Jews and Slavs. The Generalplan Ost ("General Plan for the East") called for deporting the population of occupied Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to West Siberia, for use as slave labor or to be murdered; the conquered territories were to be colonized by German or "Germanised" settlers. By January 1942, it had been decided to kill the Jews, Slavs, and other deportees considered undesirable.Holocaust:The Holocaust (the "Endlösung der Judenfrage" or "Final Solution of the Jewish Question") was ordered by Hitler and organized and executed by Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich.In the middle of September 1941 Hitler ordered the deportation of the Jews from the Greater German Reich into ghettos in Eastern Europe. He thereby set in process the deportation plans which he had pursued at the beginning of 1941, without waiting for the original precondition - the military victory over the Red Army. Only a month earlier, in the middle of August, Hitler had spoken against the "evacuation" of Jews from the Reich area. The records of the Wannsee Conference—held on 20 January 1942 and led by Heydrich, with fifteen senior Nazi officials participating—provide the clearest evidence of systematic planning for the Holocaust. On 22 February, Hitler was recorded saying, "we shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jews".In 1942 Hitler approved the Einsatzgruppen—killing squads that followed the German army through Poland, the Baltic, & the Soviet Union. By summer 1942, Auschwitz concentration camp was rapidly expanded to accommodate large numbers of deportees for killing or enslavement. Scores of other concentration camps and satellite camps were set up throughout Europe, with several camps devoted exclusively to extermination.Between 1939 and 1945, the Schutzstaffel (SS), assisted by collaborationist governments and recruits from occupied countries, was responsible for the deaths of at least eleven million people, including six million Jews (representing two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe), Deaths took place in concentration and extermination camps, ghettos, and through mass executions. Many victims of the Holocaust were gassed to death, whereas others died of starvation or disease while working as slave laborers.Although Jews suffered most from the holocaust, they were not the only ones:Hitler's policies also resulted in the killing of; 1.5 - 2 million Romani people, two million Poles, over 3 million Soviet prisoners of war, communists and other political opponents, homosexuals, the physically and mentally disabled, Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists, and trade unionists.This is Just a tip of the Iceburg. I'll turn it over to my esteemed opponent.Sources:Common knowledgeWikipediahttp://www.hdot.org...The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L ShirerHitler: A Study in Tyranny by Alan BullockHitler (2 vols) by Ian KershawThe Holocaust Encyclopedia