Fun Fact: Liberal PM McKenzie King had a hard-on for Hitler
(www.cjnews.com)
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Newsflash: Lots of world leaders were friendly with Hitler in the beginning. Even after he started rounding up Jews
Makes you think
Yep. They had the Olympics in Germany in 1933.
No shit! Here are some quotes from his diary on his visit to Berlin in '37,
"He smiled very pleasantly and indeed has a sort of appealing and affectionate look in his eyes. My sizing up of the man as I sat and talked with him was that he is really one who truly loves his fellowmen.
It is truly marvelous what he has attained unto himself through his self education. He has much the same kind of composed exterior with a deep emotional nature within. His face is much more prepossessing than his pictures would give the impression of. It is of a calm, passive man, deeply and thoughtfully in earnest. His skin was smooth; his face did not present lines of fatigue or wariness; his eyes impressed me most of all. There was a liquid quality about them which indicate keen perception and profound sympathy. He looked most direct at me in our talks together at the time.
He would turn and look at me sideways and would smile in a knowing way, he would give a look of recognition and smile pleasantly. He has a very nice, sweet wearing an evening dress, I could not but think of Joan of Arc. He is distinctly a mystic feel that he was a mission from God. He is a teetotaler and also a vegetarian. Is unmarried, abstemist in all his habits and ways. Indeed his life as one gathers it from those who are closest to him would appear to be that very much of a recluse, excepting that he comes in contact with youth. There was a little girl who wanted to get his autograph, when he saw this little child, she changed his whole nature to one of joy. He said his passion for the youth of the country is very great. He is particularly strong on beauty, loves flowers and will spend more of the money of the State on gardens and flowers than on most other things."
The guy was a fucking loon and it's a shame we didn't hang his Granddaddy so we could have avoided him too.
That description of Hitler actually sounds pretty consistent with other historical accounts of him. Hitler was a very charismatic guy
He must have been considering he was a rent boy in Vienna before WWI.