Resolved: Hitler deserved a nobel peace prize

Burdens I am not required to show why there should be such a large historic change since this accepted to in R1 by the acceptance of the debate. He and I must both assume the position that Hitler survived WW2 and it requires no proving because it is equally important that he must prove that Hitler is undeserving of the award than I must show that he is deserving of the award. There is no need to show why there was a change in history because that is off topic and unnecessary since this was accepted by me and him. He then goes on to show that a Nobel Peace Prize is a significant award and is rarely received. I have demonstrated in my contentions that Hitler went to extraordinary efforts to prevent a second world war! If you think that attempting to stop a world war is not peaceful enough then what is peaceful? I know that Hitler was nominated in 1939 but after the war Hitler had gone through great efforts to prevent the war. After the war, if these efforts had been acknowledged and Hitler had survived I believe that Hitler should have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Hitler was a mass murdering f**k head Hitler wasn’t an anti-Jew. Yes, he killed people but death is inevitable during war [1]. I admit that he was against Jews but that was not why so many Jews were killed. There is a lot of evidence suggesting that Hitler liked Jews more than he let people know. Jews fought for Germany and Hitler during the war [2]. These Jews weren't made to fight and they claimed that they believed in what Hitler was doing and they were fighting because they had a common enemy [2]. “Hitler may have [...] “married a Jew" shortly before he committed suicide, a television programme has claimed, after analysing DNA from Eva Braun's hairbrush” [3] The sourcing is reliable and comes from the Telegraph - one of the biggest English Newspapers. This is also coincided with the documentary that is referred to in the quote. You cannot just allow yourselves to be attacked during a war. You are going to have to fight back or you are just going to allow more people to be killed and allow powers to get involved. As the leader of Germany it was Hitler’s responsibility to fight back [1]. It was just emphasized on the different groups of people that died however this emphasis is baseless. If every single war documented the different ethnic minorities that were killed then in certain wars, certain minorities may outweigh others. That doesn’t mean that we should jump to the conclusion that the country was against that minority and wanted them dead. It means that this minority were killed more than others purely by chance - mostly. Hitler wasn't homophobic: “... during a rare period of tolerance, homosexuals served the armed forces with distinction during the Second World War [4]” The key word in this quote being distinction. This war had more homosexuals fighting, it is clear that more homosexuals are going to be killed. There is also a strongly supported theory that homosexuals in the army are beneficial - especially at the time since men primarily fought. Homosexuals can form stronger relationships with each other in the army and this is effective when fighting since they work better together as a team than if they were just working alongside their ‘colleagues’. This evidence to show why evolution hasn’t got rid of homosexuality [5]. A - Confiscation “After World War II, according to the Potsdam conference held between July 17 and August 2, 1945, Germany was to pay the Allies US $23 billion mainly in machinery and manufacturing plants. Reparations to the Soviet Union stopped in 1953.” Germany ended up paying $23 billion [6]. My opponent has admitted that only $8 of private property was destroyed so that leaves us with an extra $15 billion. What was that for? You may say that this was for the deaths but Germany ended up suffering 5.3 million dead [7]. Nobody else had to pay for the German damage and deaths. Why is it fair that only the Germans have to pay reparations? B - Imprisonment and Forced Labour Poland used concentration camps before the war even began as mentioned in my contentions [8]. These concentration camps were far more severe. Young German boys were castrated [9]! The idea of concentration camps in the war were not introduced by the Germans. They were introduced by the allies, more specifically Poland. If anybody is to blame it is the allies. C - Eugenics The Nazi’s gave everyone in concentration camps clean and adequate quantities of drinking water [10]. In regards to Auschwitz, possibly the most notable Nazi concentration camp: “Each year for decades, tens of thousands of visitors to Auschwitz have been shown an execution "gas chamber" in the main camp, supposedly in its "original state." In January 1995 the prestigious French weekly magazine L'Express acknowledged that "everything" about this "gas chamber" is "false," and that it is in fact a deceitful postwar reconstruction.” [11] [12] It is also exaggerated how extreme Auschwitz was. It was no secret, extermination camp: “More than 200,000 prisoners were transferred from Auschwitz to other camps, and about 8,000 were in the camp when it was liberated by Soviet forces. In addition, about 1,500 prisoners who had served their sentences were released, and returned to their home countries. If Auschwitz had actually been a top secret extermination center, it is difficult to believe that the German authorities would have released inmates who "knew" what was happening there.” [11] [13] Now this is possibly the most important quote since it directly responds to what my opponent was referring to in regards to disease and death. ‘As ordered, German physicians in Auschwitz carried out wide-ranging and intensive measures to reduce the [prisoner's]' death rate. For example, in a letter of Feb. 25, 1943, camp physician Dr. Wirths informed the central WVHA office, which was responsible for the SS concentration camp system: "As already reported, after the typhus epidemic in the Auschwitz camp had practically been suppressed in November and December, there followed a new rise in typhus cases among the Auschwitz inmates as well as among troops, brought by the newly arriving transports from the East. In spite of the counter-measures that were immediately taken, a complete suppression of typhus cases has still not been achieved."’ [11] That is how concerned they were for the prisoner’s health. They only set up the concentration camps in response to the horror that Germany had been put through before and during the war (as my contentions describe). Now, my opponent turns to Nazi war crimes but he is forgetting all of the ally war crimes that occurred too. It is also worth noting that my not every Nazi decision was made directly by Hitler [10]. Here are some examples of ally war crimes: “After the fall of Berlin, Germany was in ruins. Occupied by millions of foreign troops, none of whom had complete control over any given entity, Germany quickly descended into anarchic lawlessness. The Soviet Army alone was responsible for the rape of up to two million women and children, as well as the subsequent death of 240,000. Claimed to be the largest mass rape in history, many unfortunate victims were assaulted up to a hundred times. It is [also] believed that the US was responsible for over 11,000 rapes, while the French have been accused of over 1,500. This is clearly not on the same scale as the Soviets – but it doesn’t make it any less terrible.” [14] This clearly is much worse than just trying to change the eye colour of people. Rape and murder on this scale is horrific and I will be very shocked if my opponent contests with this. The allies committed many other war crimes including: Civilian Air Raids, Murder of Noncombatants Operation Teardrop torture The London Cage Torture Chinese War Crimes, Murder of POWs and Noncombatants, Torture, Looting, Rape, Mutilation Sterilization of German boys [9] [14] Now let’s compare this and the mass rape to what the Nazi’s did: They tried to change people’s eye colour Mass Sterilization Now I know that what the Nazi’s did isn’t right after but before you accuse Hitler for doing all of this, you should be considering what the allies did and comparing the two. 2) WW2 Germany had no choice other than to invade Poland. Poland were torturing and castrating German soldiers and even German children [9]! Germany were provoked and Hitler did his best not to invade Poland but since Poland knew that they were had back up they continued to attack [9] and therefore gave Germany no choice but to resort to self defense. If the most peaceful man on Earth was in charge of a country, assuming that he is mentally stable, if he is being attacked by the British and all of the allies he wouldn’t just sit down and allow the German army to be killed. He would fight back - in self defense. I understand that not all of the German battles were done in self defense however this is understandable because once it got to the point that Hitler wasn’t going to make peace with the other countries he had no choice to fight [10]. Hitler’s efforts did not represent a negative for peace. He was advocating peace and trying to end the war. He had to fight in self defense but whilst he was doing it he trying to find ways to end the war. Sources [1] http://huff.to... [2] http://bit.ly... [3] http://bit.ly... [4] http://bit.ly... [5] http://bit.ly... [6] http://bit.ly... [7] http://bit.ly... [8] The Journal of Historical Review, winter 1982, 454-5 [9] Fish, Hamilton, FDR: The Other Side of the Coin, 86 [10] http://bit.ly... [11] http://bit.ly... [12] http://bit.ly... [13] Arthur Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, pp. 157-159 [14] http://bit.ly...