Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5122856-20140627170757/@comment-3398633-20140630171331

Local Mafia Boss wrote: Hitler wanted to kill most of the World, and create the Aryan Master race. That would have involved the deaths of most of the population of the World. Also, he was a nutter that was almost single handedly responsible for the largest conflict the world has ever seen, thus he is responsible for all deaths in the Second World War.

Also, before the Second World War, Stalin was isolationist. Most of the USSR would not have had to suffer under Stalin without Hitler. So that's on Hitler as well.

And so is the victory of the PRC over the RoC in the Chinese Civil War. No Hitler, USSR isolationist, PRC defeated.

So both Mao's, and (some of) Stalin's crimes were pretty much down to Hitler as well. That's the issue. People still want to blame everything on Hitler and ignore the fact that people such as Stalin and Mao had complete control over their actions. Mao's murder of sixty million people came in the 1960s, twenty-five years of Hitler. Stalin was killing people long before Hitler batted an eyelash at him. The Great Purge came before Hitler's invasion of Russia, and the twenty million people Stalin killed took place throughout his rule of the Soviet Union, and well after that. Remember, Hitler didn't start the war. Chamberlain did. Chamberlain made the decision to go to war with Hitler over Poland. France jumped in to help in the fight, and the rest of the world was under the thumb of France and Britain, so it was really between two colonial empires, and one very aggressive country. While I don't doubt Hitler was insane and probably would have waged a war of increased expansion, Chamberlain going to war over some second-rate country didn't help either.