Hitler brought a lot of development to Germany, achieving notable economic successes during the first 5 years of his rule. He substantially revived the industry & economy. Unemployment - so pivotal in bringing him to power - dropped from 6 million (when he came to power) to less than 1 million between 1933 and 1937, at a time when the US was still wallowing in the Depression.
National production and income doubled during the same period. This was partly owing to Hitler's rearmament policy, but also to more benign forms of public spending. The world's first major highway system, the autobahns, began snaking across the country, and a vision to providing every citizen with a cheap automobile, the people's car, or Volkswagen - gave birth to what is today the world's largest and one of the most respected car-makers.
Nazism took root in the world's most powerful scientific culture, boasting half of the world's Nobel Prizes and a sizable fraction of the world's patents. German science and medicine were the envy of the world. The world's first magnetic tape recording is of a speech by Hitler. While the Englishman, Farnsworth, gets credit for the invention of a very rudimentary television, it was the Third Reich that perfected television and conducted the first television broadcast, featuring Hitler's speech at the opening of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
On the social welfare side, in 1938, all artisans came to be covered under compulsory social insurance, and in 1941 public health insurance coverage was extended to pensioners. In 1942, all wage-earners - regardless of occupation - were covered by accident insurance, health care became unlimited, and maternity leave was extended to twelve fully paid weeks with job protection.
But does the entire world - and almost every, if not every, German - remember Hitler for his growth agenda or for his politics of hate? Of the 9 million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately 6 million were killed, including over 1 million Jewish children and approximately 2 million Jewish women. Did Germany (and Germans) not suffer under the Hitler regime because of his supreme ambition of being the supreme ruler of the world, under the pretext of bringing Germany glory.
Should the world forgive Hitler's sins of the holocaust just because he brought development to not just Germany, but many other countries (including foes) who benefited from the Nazi inventions? Should we Indians take a learning from this, or should we be ignoramuses who forget the same while selecting our own national leader in 2014, just for the sake of development? I can't; hope you won't.
National production and income doubled during the same period. This was partly owing to Hitler's rearmament policy, but also to more benign forms of public spending. The world's first major highway system, the autobahns, began snaking across the country, and a vision to providing every citizen with a cheap automobile, the people's car, or Volkswagen - gave birth to what is today the world's largest and one of the most respected car-makers.
Nazism took root in the world's most powerful scientific culture, boasting half of the world's Nobel Prizes and a sizable fraction of the world's patents. German science and medicine were the envy of the world. The world's first magnetic tape recording is of a speech by Hitler. While the Englishman, Farnsworth, gets credit for the invention of a very rudimentary television, it was the Third Reich that perfected television and conducted the first television broadcast, featuring Hitler's speech at the opening of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
On the social welfare side, in 1938, all artisans came to be covered under compulsory social insurance, and in 1941 public health insurance coverage was extended to pensioners. In 1942, all wage-earners - regardless of occupation - were covered by accident insurance, health care became unlimited, and maternity leave was extended to twelve fully paid weeks with job protection.
But does the entire world - and almost every, if not every, German - remember Hitler for his growth agenda or for his politics of hate? Of the 9 million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately 6 million were killed, including over 1 million Jewish children and approximately 2 million Jewish women. Did Germany (and Germans) not suffer under the Hitler regime because of his supreme ambition of being the supreme ruler of the world, under the pretext of bringing Germany glory.
Should the world forgive Hitler's sins of the holocaust just because he brought development to not just Germany, but many other countries (including foes) who benefited from the Nazi inventions? Should we Indians take a learning from this, or should we be ignoramuses who forget the same while selecting our own national leader in 2014, just for the sake of development? I can't; hope you won't.
