Hear me out - wouldn't it have been better if Hitler was taken down through non-violence? That'd he'd be voted out by his own people? That his own Aryan brothers would shake their heads at him as he walked away crying? Even after conquering all of Europe, wiping out the USSR and doing the genocide on a few races, yadda yadda yadda? Despite all that winning, his own people would still reject him and jail him on abuse of power while in office, reinforcing the rule of law. It would only take, like, a few more million lives, but fascism would really be proven wrong if it completely won, but centrist liberal democrats would get Hitler on a technically nevertheless.
No, because then that would lend credence to the idea that nonviolence is not only desirable but effective. You cannot vote out fascism, it can only be cleansed with blood and fire. Plus most people in Germany would have definitely not "rejected" Hitler at the time by any margin. There's a reason de-Nazification took so long in the East, and failed miserably in the West.
Hear me out - wouldn't it have been better if Hitler was taken down through non-violence? That'd he'd be voted out by his own people? That his own Aryan brothers would shake their heads at him as he walked away crying? Even after conquering all of Europe, wiping out the USSR and doing the genocide on a few races, yadda yadda yadda? Despite all that winning, his own people would still reject him and jail him on abuse of power while in office, reinforcing the rule of law. It would only take, like, a few more million lives, but fascism would really be proven wrong if it completely won, but centrist liberal democrats would get Hitler on a technically nevertheless.
No, because then that would lend credence to the idea that nonviolence is not only desirable but effective. You cannot vote out fascism, it can only be cleansed with blood and fire. Plus most people in Germany would have definitely not "rejected" Hitler at the time by any margin. There's a reason de-Nazification took so long in the East, and failed miserably in the West.
You'll never convince me that fighting Hitler was good, because I am doing what the Germans call "der Sarkasmus."
Then I looks like I'm "der Tor." My death haiku will be ready at sunset.