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Question: Are we fascinated, despite hating them, of the Nazi leaders!?
Of course Hitler is too well known!. But what can we say of their many leaders they had!? I choose two: Josef Goebbels and Reinhard Heydrich!. Goebbels was the minister of propaganda, the one who said "lies often and they will believe you eventually"!. Wrote interesting diaries of his observing the world [including discussing USA's racial problems and British imperialism] Yes, the guy was rotten, but had a Phd in letters and philosophy!. An intellectual!. Heydrich was the assistant chief of the SS!. He was the "brain" implementing the Jewish holocaust!. Yes!. the guys "we love to hate"!. Feedback, please!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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No, we are not!. Most people here on Yahoo! Answers have some sort of fascination for Adolf Hitler, judging by the two or three questions on Hitler and the Nazis seen here everyday!. There are far less questions on Himmler, Speer, and Rudolf Hoss!.

People like Goebbles and Heydrich were weak, and would not have lasted two days on the Russian front where the majority of the German soldiers died in the Second World War!. For me, there is no fascination for people like Goebbels and Heydrich, who were just administrators in fancy uniforms with fancy titles doing someone else's dirty work!.

The dirty work I refer to is maintaining the illusion of the Third Reich as any thing but a foul dictatorship that murdered its opponents, and anyone else who did not fit into its skewered racial theories, as well as the systematic implementation of murder of those already mentioned and more!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

They helped the rest of the world realize how wrong and cruel discrimination can be, and they prevented Europe (and the rest of the world) from all becoming communist, the US would otherwise be part of the USSR!. Aside from that, no, they're not good, they're infinitely arrogant, uncaring, cold harsh and ruthlessly uncaring and mean, and you'd regret or resent being under them!. Don't aspire to find leaders following in their footsteps !!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

I always find myself watching documentaries on the History channel about Nazis, Hitler, the Holocaust and WW2!. But of course I don't support anything that they did, but yes I still think it's fascinating!. Part of the reason I loved history class!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Heydrich always fascinated me!. The epitome of the blond Aryan, expert fencer, violinist and charmer of women, he was ruthlessly efficient!. He was referred to as 'Hitler's evil young God of death!.'

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Oh yeah, everyone in my class was really interested in Josef Miguela just because he was so sadistic and deranged, but really polite at the same time!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Well despite being terrible people, they were still incredibally smart!. No one can deny that!. They were smart, but did stupid, horrible things!.
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Yes people are fascinated with them in the same macabre sense as they are fascinated with serial killers!. What is so fascinating about them is they were educated men with for the most part benign former lives (Himmler was a chicken farmer, most of the architects of genocide at the Weinsee conference were PhDs) The fact they were able to blindly guide a decimated population to commit acts of brutality is nothing short of astonishing!. The mass consensus is that Nazis were monsters, but the reality is they were human beings with human emotions, thats what makes them so fascinating!. How everyday people are able to perpetrate acts of genocide and sleep at night is the cornerstone of many psychological debates!. We are fascinated by the thin veil of civility that seperates us from people like this, how would we have acted in a dictatorship handed absolute power!? These were people just like you and me, and as history shows us (now in Darfur, Bosnia, China, the list could go on) the haves will always oppress the have-nots!. Yes we are fascinated by what people will do to others under certain cisrumstances!. If you are interested in this sort of study there are two sources you should examine one is a movie called Conspiracy about Heydrich and the Wannsee conference, the second is a psychological study called the Stanford Prison experiment conducted in California by a renowned psychologist named Phillip Zimbardo, I highly advise checking these out if you are seeking more information about what people will do to each other!. "Man is wolf to man"-Janush BardachWww@QuestionHome@Com