Hitler was a hero

---------------- 1. I disagree with anybody who says that Adolf Hitler[1] was a hero. Although this is what we technically should be debating about, my opponent wrote in a comment, ". .. all my opponent has to do is prove that Hitler should not be regarded as a hero or was a bad person, something to that effect. " -- Which means that I am allowed to prove that Hitler was a bad person. I will try to do that, and I hope that this debate becomes very interesting for the readers. ----------------------------------------------------- 2. Why Adolf Hitler was not a good person/hero ----------------------------------------------------- The subject we are debating is about Hitler being a hero, or a good person, but a person who is considered being a hero is not necessarily a hero to everybody. It is a matter of opinion, and people have different opinions. Hitler did things that most people consider being exceptionally inhumane and catastrophic. Due to this, some people like myself consider Hitler having been a horrible man, and in no way a hero. However, there are people who do consider him being a hero, perhaps because they think his actions were justified, or because they for some reason like him so much that they support all that he did. In my opinion, for a thing or person to be considered being good, the positive sides must outweigh the negative sides, meaning that positive things should be more "visible" than negative things. For example, if any action of a person gives him 50 points, good action to the positive side, and bad action to the negative side, then a person doing two good things give him 100 points, and one bad thing giving him 50 points, which is 100[positive]>50[negative], and then he can be considered a good person. What Hitler did was not all bad. He fought for his nation, and became a leader of it[2], so politically, he can be considered a hero because he made speeches that were very convincing [giving hope to the people, and so forth][3], built a very powerful military for his people[4], and similar things. However, he also did things that make all of this seem like being used for an evil purpose. a) He ordered the killing of countless Jews. It is knows as "Holocaust". [5][6] b) He was the reason for why Germany was destroyed. [7] c) He did not care about the people of Germany. You can get more information about this if you watch the movie "Der Untergang". [8] --------------- 3. Conclusion --------------- While Hitler may be regarded as a hero to some people, most fair-minded people do not think that he was a hero, although what he achieved politically can be regarded as being heroic in some way. What he did negatively is more visible and important than what he did positively, so we should look at that, rather than to look at what he achieved politically, because what he achieved politically went to the ground in 1945. ------------- References: ------------- [1]. http://en.wikipedia.org... [2]. http://www.fff.org... [3]. http://worldfuturefund.org... [4]. http://en.wikipedia.org... [5]. http://history1900s.about.com... [6]. http://en.wikipedia.org... [7]. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com... [8]. http://www.imdb.com...