What did people think of Adolf Hitler?

Answer 1

At the start Hitler was not very popular but when he was sent to jail for trying to gain power by force (beer hall putch) he only got sent to jail for 9 months and it was in a comfortable cell. It was there in jail that he realised that could only gain power by persuasion. It was a slow process but Hitler was determined to reach the top. In the end he had a lot of power and if anyone stood in his way, or was a potential threat they would be killed. You have to keep in mind that Hitler had taken over the Nazi's and they were the leading group. By that time every German adored Hitler and if they didn't they were killed. It was as simple as that. Jews were hated and blamed by Hitler for starting the war and everyone believed that this was true and some even ratted out their neighbours, friends and family. Other people in different countries however hated Hitler but they couldn't do anything about it.

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Answer 2

There is no single definition of 'Aryan' but all the major definitions include both Germans and Scandinavians ... including the Danes and Norwegians who were under Nazi domination for 5 years. Certainly not all of these people had the same opinion of Hitler as the people who brought him to power.

Since the word Aryan comes from the Sanskrit word Arya, used to describe the lighter-skinned Indians, the scholarly usage up until WW2 included many Indians, Iranians, and nearly all Europeans as Aryans. The French and Poles and Ukranians did not think well of Hitler.

Since WW2, scholars avoid the word and 'Aryan' is today mainly (incorrectly) used to mean light-skinned Caucasian people. By that definition, French, English, Canadians and Americans, Belgians, Dutch, and Germans and Austrians all were Aryans. There was a tremendous range of opinion.

Any attempt to categorize the feelings or thoughts of an entire race will produce poor results.