Yes! You should respond!

Look, as Zak says "what could have happened to the state if their respective totalitarian leader had never taken power?" Well- I pose this same question: hitler? Would Germany/Europe have be a happier or different place? Most definitely a different place; however, one thing to consider is the fact that if Hitler didn't come to power, some other bloodthirsty tyrant might have had similar ideas, destroyed many cultures, and waged war on the world itself. Hitler isn't the only fascist dictator to come to power in Europe- we've got Mussolini and Stalin as examples that even if Hitler hadn't come to power- there would still have been a lot of death in Europe during the first half of the 20th century. Would the "Final Solution" ever have been proposed or put into action if Hitler wasn't its ringleader? As i've said in previous posts- after WWI, Germany was in a rough place and it needed a change. This changed took the form of Adolf Hitler. A man bent of changing the order of Europe and doing whatever he needed to do to feel as though he created a safe and pure environment for his fellow aryans to live in. I'd like to believe that if Hitler had never come to power- millions of Jews would have been spared. But we know this isn't true. Due to the environment that Hitler came out of- i'm sure that some other power thirsty individual would have jumped up at the chance to take control of Germany and try and spread Germany's cloak of power all over Europe. As said on this website, Hitler did not personally kill 6 million Jews and therefore we shouldn't place all the blame on one individual. I understand what this website is saying- maybe we should blame the environment and perhaps even the malleability of the society that fragile Europe had created during the 20th century. BUT- it certainly is easier to blame one person. It always is because no one wants to take the blame on themself. Zak- for Napolean: do you agree that if he had never come to power someone else would have come and done similiar things (sure the details would be different) due to the structure of society and the environment that had been created by prior events? Basically- would things really have been that different? Do you actually think that millions of people's of lives would have been saved if, for example, Hitler hadn't come to power? I don't think it would've been that different. But who knows!