Was Hitler Dumb or Smart?

[Toolbox]

Very good at convincing desperate people, though I wouldn't say that requires intelligence, just social awareness. He definitely wasn't a great long term commander of his military.

 

[kartofel]

Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos.

He was smart enough to identify the problem and try to do something about it. That is more than can be said of a lot of world leaders, past or present. The West's political/economic system is fundamentally fucked, and what is worse, we are trapped in stasis because acknowledging the problems we have would mean admitting he was right about a lot of the things he was butthurt about. Globalism(aka international finance) produces dysfunctional societies and our ruling class only really seems to fear National Socialist ideas. In consequence, I think we are actually in the very early stages of a rebirth of National Socialism and I think that the more dysfunctional society gets, the stronger that rebirth will be.

 

[SwanSwanson]

Being bad at school and believing in conspiracy theories doesn't make you dumb. This one girl I know actually got her IQ tested with a score of 122 and she did bad at school, and had to get a GED instead of a highschool diploma.

 

[OrangeJuliusEvola]

Hitler is what happens when you combine high functioning autism with extraordinary public-speaking charisma, a trait he actively cultivated with an autismal hyperfocus. He was absolutely bizarre and strange in his casual interpersonal behavior. The fact he wasn't the most bizarre in the Nazi Germany leadership (that would go to Himmler) obscured it.

 

[Certified_Autist]

He was very smart in some areas and very dumb in others. Excellent at identifying problems in society, excellent at domestic politics and rallying people around a common cause. Not so great when it came to foreign diplomacy and rather bad when it came to micromanaging military tactics.

 

[Boss Hawg]

He was smart enough to bring a weaken destitute nation to a military power house that challenged most of the world powers for a couple years. Other than that idk average maybe.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

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I'm starting to get "whitey be holding back the black man!" vibes from Hitler.

 

[FiddleAFox]

Turning a war-ravaged Germany into an economic and military superpower in less than 20 years, capable of instilling fear into the minds of the Banking Tribe over 7 decades after his death?... Yeah, he must've sat on his thumbs for most of his life doing nothing and eating paint chips.

Try less than half a fuckin' decade. He certainly was smart, but unfortunately the kindness was certainly not reciprocated by the current kikes in power that hate him to this very day even after incentivizing kikesses to breed in the concentration camps to then be shipped to Madagascar. I wouldn't say dumb, but more or less shortsighted and I guarantee if he actually DID attempt a holocaust, jews probably would have had a much harder time trying to prove it than what is currently known today.

 

[JambledUpWords]

He was very charismatic and knew how to get many to side with him, but to me, I think his pitfall was in his foreign policy, which ended up creating issues in maintaining a good military as the war went on.

Operation Barbarossa was probably one of his least thought out plans. By the time Barbarossa happened, his armies were already fighting the Western front. I understand that it was to fit into the Lebensraum plan to go after other parts of Eastern Europe, but in doing so, it made the war into two fronts at once. I think it would have been better to stay fighting the Western front and go after Eastern Europe once things calm down.

Sure, the Nazis could put up a fight, but Hitler greatly overestimated the ability of his military. For as much strength as he had in charisma, he lacked in strategy.

I think it shows the pitfalls of more autocratic rule in general. Hitler as Chancellor was able to exert a lot more power at his position than a US President realistically could (FDR tried, but he would get blocked by even his own party from doing things, like trying to pack the SCOTUS). If there was more checks in the Nazi government, Hitler may have made more strategic moves. He had military experience, but just having that doesn’t mean you know how to lead the entire military. So, for as much credit as I give him to giving people something to rally behind, the areas he lacked in were fatal.

 

[A-Stump]

If he'd spent less time sperging out and fucking his dogs and more time listening to his competent war council it'd have done a lot of good.

 

[White_N]

Turning a war-ravaged Germany into an economic and military superpower in less than 20 years, capable of instilling fear into the minds of the Banking Tribe over 7 decades after his death?... Yeah, he must've sat on his thumbs for most of his life doing nothing and eating paint chips.

Turning a war-ravaged Germany into war-ravaged Germany

Thank you Adolf, very cool

 

[millais]

They say his mental abilities deteriorated over the course of the war due to the syphilis and the drug injections.

So 1933 Adolf was probably smarter than 1945 Adolf.

 

[Weed Eater]

Hitler used meth and put his soldiers on meth because people in the 30s-40s thought meth was some "superpower" drug. Hitler was a methhead, therefore he was most definitely dumb.

 

[JambledUpWords]

Turning a war-ravaged Germany into war-ravaged Germany

Thank you Adolf, very cool

Hitler was so effective, that he split Germany in two by the end of the war.

 

[Maurice Caine]

I dunno but the guy's legacy was absolutely awful.

 

[Street Peter]

Hitler larping as a Military strategist was dumb move.

 

[Yuri_]

He figured many things out before the early life section existed. Very impressive feat.

 

[WeWuzFinns]

Hitler was smart but he would have been genius if he had eaten meat instead of being vegan.

 

[byuu]

Hitler was smart but he would have been genius if he had eaten meat instead of being vegan.

If he was smart he wouldn't have been a vegan in the first place.

 

[Queen Elizabeth II]

If he was smart he wouldn't have been a vegan in the first place.

He wasn't. Hitlers personal chef made lots of money telling people via his book what he ate; his favourite thing being a kind of meat dumpling.

The reason this was spread is apparently the Germans thought it would make him look more like Ghandi, go figure.

No joke.