Hitler or Stalin: Who Was Worse

[dunn]

Josef Stalin

Only reason why people would vote for Hitler is because they lack information when it comes to Stalin...

I guess my five semesters in contemporary history were totally useless. Damn!

Well, okay, the reason why I voted for Hitler had a at least partially ironic or even sarcastic background.

or are Jewish themselves

Either that or a gypsy, or gay, or handicapped, or a Jehovah´s witness, or a communist, or a Pole, or a Czech etc. Why are people so obsessed with the Jews here? Okay, it was one of the biggest victims groups of Hitler´s regime, but is the life of a Jew more worth than of a gypsy?

No. It's the fact that Jews were singled out for being Jews. The others were singled out for other reasons: Gypsies(bums), Communists(enemies of the state), Gays(Hitler was himself bi, yes he had homosexual relationships while in the army, and was ashamed of himself), Poles(they were in his path), Jehovahs Witnesses(thier religion does not allow them to join the army or pledge allegance to a government). Czechs were not really persecuted, just occupied. Those other than Jews were not set up for EXTERMINATION for NO apparent reason. It is still a huge mystery to most people why he picked on them. People lose sleep over it.

amen

[dunn]

Hitler... the time scale is horrific... and he was only getting started...

exectly

[dunn]

What is worse is that the Roosevelt Administration pretty much knew what was going on and never publicly condemned the slaughter. That is why most Americans were shocked when they found out about the camps.

true. The allies could have bombed Auswich - they knew and had the maps

[dunn]

Bombed Auswich? Wouldn't that have killed a lot of innocents? I hope you are being sarcastic.

with 10,000 innocents gas to death daily bombing the facilities wouls probably killed dozens/hundreths that are about to die anyway and save hunderths of thousends, this offer was considered

[dunn]

When it comes to the soviet union, it really wasn't communism, it was socialism....

The basic ideals behind communism arent' that bad, just they don't work and can't be implemented.  Well, some unions of today could have communistic ideas in some cases.

No
it was Bolshevism

[dunn]

No
it was Bolshevism

True

[dunn]

People forget that Stalin also killed millions of Jews, and also Catholics, serfs, and pretty much anyone who disagreed with him including Trotsky (OUCH!).

Stalin was definately worse. However, Hitler has an identity for being worse because he admitted he was evil. Stalin just tried to hide it

Stalin ruled for 30 years, can you imagin what it would look after 30 years of Hitler?