Pat Buchanan on Hitler.
Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan - The Dark Side
In 1977, Buchanan wrote:
"Those of us in childhood during the war years were introduced to Hitler only as caricature. ... Though Hitler was indeed racist and anti-Semitic to the core, a man who without compunction could commit murder and genocide, he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier's soldier in the Great War, a political organizer of the first rank, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him."
And is that incorrect data? No, it is absolutely right on the money.
What should he have done? Pretended that none of that is true?
I think you're confused about how history works.
If I told you that Ghegis Khan was great general and an even better adminisitrator of occupied territories, would that make me a MONGOL?
He went on to say:
"Hitler's success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path."
And you think recogtnizing how Hitler rose to power means PB was a NAZI?
Every historian who studies the build up to WWII would agree 100% with that accessment.
I know I do and I am not a NAZI, not NAZI sympathizer, either
I still think you are not doing your OWN research but instead are counting on others, and counting on them taking words out of context to prove a point.
Nothing PB said about Hilter is NOT TRUE.
None of it reaches the level of sympathy for Hitler, either.
But when the word HITLER is mentioned?
People stop thinking.
As you just so admirably showed us right here on this very board.