Adolf Hitler

[Kalimori]

Adolf was at the same time a genius, AND an imbecile. An evil one at that.

 

[Macroman]

He was a genious, not for what he did but how he did it. He planned every attack every raid with perfection he commanded his armies in perfect harmony in a wave of destruction.

Yet he was an Imbecile, Murdering millions for a cause that was not needed, so that all may look think and believe the same.

 

[xxtrem3]

i just like his moustache.
He's bad in every way.

 

[Cocaine Busniss]

I don't like him much.
He make the jews look bad.
But they ain't.

 

[OxyMind]

He obviously isn't an imbecile if he can convince the majority of Germany to follow him. I would say he was a verbal genius, and an extremely good public speaker and military leader. Yeah he was friggin' crazy! but that doesn't mean he wasn't some sort of genius. He went from bum, to leader of germany within like 15 years.

 

[Search]

If my memory of military history is correct, some of his most famous speeches were rehearsed before a "test" audience beforehand, so as to achieve the greatest emotional effect.

He had some brilliant decisions, some terrible decisions (Operation Barbossa), but overall, his massive military successes lay in the technology, efficiency, and leadership of the German army.

It took him a rather large amount of time to realize that mass machine gunnings were less efficient than gas chambers. Once he acquired this knowledge, however, the Nazi party became one of the most cost effective genocide machines of all time. Then mean ol' Russia came along and spoiled their fun.

You haven't answered the question. And to be more precise, he had six million Jews put to death, excluding another great number of non-Jews.

I believe in WWII it amounted to 17 million total murders, including gypsies, etc.