I am not an apologist. Hitler waged war. We agree he destroyed Germany due to that, at least the forces against Germany destroyed Germany.
Hitler in effect lived two lives. His first life was causing Germany to recover from a wild depression. Germans loved that about him.
He really did wrong for Germany and other nations by invading them.
I too was a soldier in Germany not a lot of years after Germany lost the war. When you got to Germany, it was a very new and sophisticated country. I crossed into DDR myself and saw the wall in Berlin very closely.