Why do historians tend to deny Hitler was a psychopath? He seems to exhibit most traits of ASPD to me
>>18247182Not a broken human (psychopath), but a fully operational ideological engine. The traits are the required features for running a specific program: National Socialism. Diagnosing him misses the truth. He was the perfect, rational processor for a monstrous ideology.
>Anti-Social Personality Disorder>Names its party the National SOCIALIST Germans Worker's PartyPick one.
Which historians deny this anon?
>>18247424David Irving
>>18247182Hitler was an empath
>>18247182Almost every competent world leader has to be a little bit of a psychopath
Because he wasn't. He was a turbo normie.
He was right about everything
>>18247182Because he showed intense emotional investment in his ideology, art, and Wagner, which is more typical of a fanatic than a cold, detached psychopath.
>>18247434Wrong.Pretty much every historian asserts that Hitler was not a psychopath.The most fundemental criteria for being a psychopath is the lack of empathy.Hitler had empathy, and he is generally described by everyone who was near him, as being loving and caring.Evil is subjective and humans often justify their violence on others by a vicious smug self-righteousness, often from those who are empathetic and pride themselves on the fact that they are. In their mind, their violence is justified against their opponents, because this person believes he serves good and so the other serves evil.It's a strife for utopia, if they could just remove a group of people so that we may finally make this world a better place. A lot of people around us completely tick every box of having been a nazi, not because they specifically subscribe to nazi ideology, but because of the nature of their character. My point is that Hitler truly believed he was acting for the greater good, that his work was going to benefit everyone. He truly believed he was fighting a defensive war against people and states. Even today, nearly all wars of aggression are believed to be righteously defensive by the aggressor. He also truly believed jews and communists were evil and conspiring to destroy everything that is good. He believed that he HAD to act, and that only radical solutions was the only solution.There are people who reason like this today against others. They are fully convinced that their violence is justified because of an imagined hyperbolic plot by their opponents unless they act. This is what ideology does to you, and it's the true lesson of ww2, but people mostly focus on "not being nazi", while missing the greater picture of why it happened and what makes humans do these things. Whenever you feel that violence is justified based on your own self-righteousness, you're becoming the person that made the nazies (or communists) do what they did to others.
