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Hitler could string a sentence together. And wrote his own book. It was utterly bloody batshit (& of course the day I turned up in the Buttery with two copies of it [needed the English translation because I read Fraktur slowly] was the day that I ended up eating lunch with half a dozen Germans AND a British friend born & raised there, not awkward at ALL that, noooooooo) but he wrote it All On His Own.
You know, I think even Hitler would take issue with Trump. I mean for a start he's not persecuting the RIGHT religion, but what I'm ACTUALLY meaning is that the decisions he's making are rash & imprudent & he is lowering the standing of America on the world stage. His plans aren't actually thought out. His "America First" won't actually serve the Volk or the Reich just the Führer (as it were).
Am certainly not on some mad revisionist kick here, so we are VERY clear, but Hitler was a very effective leader who turned Germany around from the horrific hyperinflation of the Depression into a functioning successful state. He did it using horrific methods & left a legacy that continues to impact on the German people today (massive issues with collective memory though increasingly as that generation dies out that morphs into issues around the collective sense of shame/disgrace) but he was more skilled as a Leader - at least he deliberately plunged the world into war, I suspect Trump will bring about Armageddon via his idiotic blustering & posturing.
While we're talking C20 dictators, though, let's not forget Stalin either. Again, a better & more skilled Leader who would also undoubtedly hold Trump in contempt. And who slaughtered many millions more than Hitler (but never seems to get namechecked in the same way) & also had a system to camps.
And it was, of course, the British who came up with the idea of concentration camps in the first place, during the Boer War. Well done us. Ugh.
(If you want a lighter look at the thought of Hitler reappearing, there's a film called Look Who's Back, which sees him return to present-day Berlin... it's on Netflix.)