silverpig
Lifer
Originally posted by: mchammer
I think what is being missed here is that Hitler is worse because he started WWII, which resulted in people being killed everywhere and much fighting that would not otherwise have happened. It is possible that without that, the Japanese would not have been bold enough to attack Pearl Harbor and the Soviets would not have had control over East Germany for all those years, cold war would have been different too.
Hitler didn't have much at all to do with the Pacific. The US wasn't involved in the European war at all when Japan bombed PH, and Japan was already well on their way to taking over the East Pacific. They attacked PH because they were worried the US would step in on them, so they wanted to cripple the US Navy before they got their asses in gear.
But yeah, it was because of Hitler that the Soviet Union was so worried and industrialized so quickly. It forced the Soviet Union to become paranoid of the west, and well, that led to a bunch of crap too.