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I'm still curious as to what Hitler's good points were. There was a comment made about the industrial revival Hiitler took credit for after WWI.
Even if he was directly responsible, we have to remind ourselves that the economy could be doing great, but the people aren't.
Before WWII, Hitler was a darling of the business world in the 1930s because of his facism. Now remember that fascism doesn't mean gas chambers, it is a special kind of an economic arrangement, where the government and the corporations mix. Mussolini preferred the term "corporatization" over fascism.
What happens with fascism? The government and the corporations come together and decide how much investment, research, and consumption goes on every year (something that goes on right now in Japan every 2 years), unions are destroyed, and national assets are auctioned off.
In essence, the market was doing great in Germany, but that doesn't mean the people were. I don't believe that being forced to work two jobs to support a family is "progress".
Incidentally, FDR called Mussolini "an admirable Italian gentlemen." Fun in a can.
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