Off topic comment here, but I can't let this stand as it is.
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Originally Posted by bilbo
but his beginning motives were rather noble.
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Mein Kampf was written in 1924 already. His antisemitist and racist motives were laid open in it, as were his plans to go to war. His motives were never noble.
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Originally Posted by bilbo
Perhaps insanity and power drove it from his mind in the later years (1935-45), but following the collapse of Germany after WWI, Hitler was deeply moved by the plight of his fellow Germans, and it was his patriotism, not necessarily insanity, that began his struggle to bring Germany back into the "Successful Nations" list.
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While it is true that he was deeply moved by Germany's defeat - as well as the following unfair peace treaty - it is not possible (at
any time) to sever his patriotism from motives you would label insane, like the ones I mentioned above. He didn't "go insane" around 1935, but before 1935, he simply didn't have the means to realize those motives in a larger scale yet.