As a Jew, when I think of Hitler, I don't think of Hitler as some evil mastermind, nor do I think of him as a misunderstood soul, nor do I think of him as a non-human demon. Instead, I think about Hitler before it all began for him; Hitler before WWI.
Before WWI, Adolf Hitler was a no-name loser transient hanging out between Vienna and Munich. He was from an upper middle class background but became dirt poor, not due to injustice or misfortune, but rather through his own stupidity, ego, and refusal to get an actual job. He made a living drawing kitschy mediocre paintings for tourists while living in a hostel for homeless people. He got his opinions from racist tabloids and from passive absorption of Nietzsche. A man of below average intelligence, mediocre talents, little social skills and very, very little maturity.
The Hitler I see is not a mastermind or evil genius. He was a thoroughly mediocre man, a deeply awkward and childish man who never let go of his teenage years (which he called the best years of his life in Mein Kampf lmao), a man who seems ironclad resistant to letting go of his daydreams and joining the real world.
And that was Hitler. Hitler never progressed from that. He remained a mediocre, immature loser from the days he was a Vienna transient until his death in the bunker in 1945. He only gained one talent: A trained ability to manipulate, abuse and persuade people into submission, and he used that one talent well to lie, cheat, bluff, torture, two-time and scam his way into his role in history: The overseer of the industrial slaughter of the European Jews. Anyone else could have filled that role instead of him, he just happened to trip his way into the position.
Hitler was not a genius. Hitler was not a psychopath. Hitler was not Satan. Hitler was a painfully average and incompetent Gentile, and he is not one of his kind.
Hitler drew a lot of inspiration from Karl Marx as well, who was from the same breed.
He was a racist, sexist, anti-semitic upper class twit who never had a real job in his life. The Communist Manifesto was written when he was supposed to be working in his father's factory to learn responsibility. He wrote that book off the backs of the real working class. Not to mention he was a deadbeat dad who knocked up working class women, threw them out on the street, and made long winded excuses about how he doesn't need to feed his kids.
Most dictators throughout history seem to come from this sort of background. Almost like there's some sort of pattern...
