iamwhatiseem
Diamond Member
Interesting series. I haven't read Hitler in depth, but I really had no idea that the people that surrounded Hitler were responsible for a great deal of the atrocities committed by his regime. Mein Kampf for instance would have never been written if not for Rudolph Hess's insistence that he write a book. And Hess heavily rewrote Hitler's words and injected much of it himself.
I didn't know that Hitler was against rounding up the jews at first, and that it was Goebbels who began persecuting them in the beginning. And Hitler had little to do with the building/planning of the concentration camps, but it was Himmler. Unlike Goebbels who wanted to publicly kidnap/kill jews, Himmler wanted it to be done out of sight of the German people. And thus built the camps, and gas chambers to quietly mass murder them out of the public eye.
Not to defend Hitler, of course he was an absolute monster... but he was way more off hands than I knew.
I didn't know that Hitler was against rounding up the jews at first, and that it was Goebbels who began persecuting them in the beginning. And Hitler had little to do with the building/planning of the concentration camps, but it was Himmler. Unlike Goebbels who wanted to publicly kidnap/kill jews, Himmler wanted it to be done out of sight of the German people. And thus built the camps, and gas chambers to quietly mass murder them out of the public eye.
Not to defend Hitler, of course he was an absolute monster... but he was way more off hands than I knew.