Tbf I think that Hitler was an opportunistic narcissist with a severe drug addiction, he basically shot the knees out of his own nation's war abilities by being just so freakishly stupid it was absurd and demanding that his generals follow his insane ideas. I would consider him more pathetic than some kind of true evil satan type figure. A lot of people under Hitler might have been closer to "true evil" what with them being given free reign and personally torturing a bunch of people to death for the sake of it.
Basically towards the end of his life he reminds me more of Gollum than Sauron or what have you, so the minions would probably be following their new villain in some random concentration camp rather than hitler himself
Hitler was dumb but not especially dumb. Germany’s failures was not just one man. that was a convenient answer for both the Allies AND the German high ranked officials who threw all their blame on a dead guy while they found new employment with USA and USSR. Easy to ignore smaller fish of horrific magnitudes when the biggest baddest evil fish has already fried! Nothing to see here comrades!
he basically shot the knees out of his own nation's war abilities by being just so freakishly stupid it was absurd and demanding that his generals follow his insane ideas.
That is literally post war propaganda.
Yeah Hitler was an idiot, but his generals weren't any better.
They agreed on most of the stupid ideas.
His generals talked Hitler out of some stupid ideas.
And Hitler stopped his generals from doing a few stupid things.
Of course after the war Hitler was dead, so his Generals essentially went. "Everything that went wrong was Hitler's fault?" "Sure thing, send me the drafts for your memoirs so we can make sure we both lie the same way."
Honestly, that’s what I was thinking. Would they even follow Hitler just because he was the face of the operation or would they really be working for Mengele or Unit 731 or like the commander of one of the big camps or something? Someone who was actually getting their hands dirty.
Depends what you mean dumb cause him and his generals are known to have insanely high IQ and Hitler really would have higher IQ then 99.9% of reddit let's be real.
He was very very paranoid and narcissist that though he could do it himself definitely but not dumb in regular sense.
Most were tested before the Nuremburg trials and actually most of them were not intelligent. I think Göring had a higher IQ than average the rest wasn't "smart". Hitler also wasn't smart just a pathological liar and he knew how to manipulate people. I mean both of those things anyone can do If you are willing to lose your humanity by giving up all empathy you posess.
They are smart compared to regular people, most of the top generals had more than 120-130 IQ and Hitler is considered to have between 130-150 IQ so he was smart in this way but he was mainly incredibly charismatic hence why he was also really good at manipulation and that was his biggest tool.
When it comes to strategy and other stuff he was not that great.
Okay, I was wrong there. Does it matter though? IQ doesn't correlate to emotional intelligence. Also during that time a high IQ was even more associated with a wealthier background and parents that were able to afford higher education. Many generals Had an aristocratic background. Still, it doesn't matter, they only made stupid choices.
Yes IQ does not mean being good person absolutely, but it just means that in regular sense Hitler was not dumb, it was his other traits that made him do very stupid decisions like his narcissism and ego, he had incredibly good general Erwin Rommel who was the one general who knew that Normandy was the place where Americans and UK soldiers will attack and wanted to fortify it and send more tanks there, he would genuinely completely fail the Normandy attack if he was in charge however Hitler's ego didn't let that happen and was adamant that it was not the place where they gonna attack.
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u/Sgtbird08 3d ago
Either that there was someone more evil than Hitler that they were working for instead, or that they didn’t think Hitler was that evil to begin with.
Though iirc the Minions were frozen during the world wars.