there are a lot of things from Sun Tzu that you can apply to Hitler but it's all in the opposite way.
That's Lao Tzu. Sun Tzu does not consider war to be a path toward power, but towards life (the preservation of the state and the people). Hence in his description of warfare he always considers the General to be a servant of the state and never a renegade in search of power.
Merling did you see the one with the watermelon? I had it on my computer but we deleted everything off couple days ago. Edit: I found one but its not the same as I had on my computer before.
I donno any sites jsut search around the web and you will find many things http://www.funnypictures.dk/funny-picture-416.htm Just by typing "funny hitler" in google I can look for mroe but I have to reinstall google tool bar because apprently some idiot took it of my computer.
What are you saying, Warcloud? "Don't judge poor Hitler, he was only trying to do what was best for Germany"?
No... that he was a man that controled millions of people... if you were german once you would've been in his groups, fighting for him...
Now, this could easily be taken as an insult but even if we presuppose that I would have, what difference does that make? He was in control of millions of people, yes. He also ordered the systematic killing of millions of people. He also started a war that ended up killing many more millions of people.
Quite a few people have controlled millions of people without making as much of a mess of their country and the rest of the world. Hitler just had a knack, it seemed. My reference to their country in particular is not even a reference to WW2 - Hitler set up a nation where the economy would have collapsed in 1940 had they not gone to war in 1939. His system of government revolved around giving several large bodies overlapping powers to encourage them to compete with each other. While it did effectively prevent them from plotting against hitler, it made the running of the nation very inefficient. Plus, as stated before, he was a psychotic, murderous junkie.
Sorry, but this really doesn't make sense. Just because he controlled millions of people (Oh and incidently as has been pointed out, could only maintain his Empire by encouraging dangerously wasteful inter-departmental bickering and rivlary, could only finance the Empire by plundering conquered nations directly and indirectly, started a world war which ended in his suicide and the utter destruction of his empire and began an industrialised genocide of millions of people) doesn't place him above criticism. I have no doubt that if I had lived in Germany at that time I almost certainly would have been a part of that, probably in the German army, but equally that doesn't place Adolf beyond criticism and in all honesty is utterly irrelevant to his capabilities as Fuhrer or lack thereof. Could he really control an Empire? Seems to me he didn't do a fantastic job in any case, after only 12 years his "Thousand Year Reich" was in total utter ruins. Were there any other real Empires that rose so quickly and collapsed so fast and completely? He was a delusional, strategically incapable, drug dependant, mega-murdering, lunatic whose rise to power and prominence was as much down to luck and timing combined with his oratory ability as it was to any kind of actual skill or competence.
Simon can you make a case for Hitler being drug-dependant? I donno about Hitler but Goering obviously was.