Did Adolf Hitler possess exceptional intellectual ability that exceeded that of his subordinates?
>>18361613Obviously.His IQ was never measured but it must have been in the 160s
>>18361618why didn’t Hitler just build an atomic bomb if he was a Los Alamos–level genius?
>>18361648He was an ideological genius, not a physicist
>>18361613SAAR
>>18361613Probably not. Just on base rates, the outer face is less intelligent than the advisor, planner, etc.
>>18361613According to one of the higher ups in the nazi leadership I don't remember who it was but according to him Hitler had the mind of an artist. He didn't have the logical-rational brain but more like the artsy-emotional brain. I remember him saying something like the analytical brain looks at the situation and then plans accordingly while Hitler had a dream and then tried to make it like his dream was or something like that.
>>18361613Most of his subordinates worshipped him as a god so probably
Because he was a cuck
>>18361613Reminder that the most intelligent nazi Hjalmar Schacht was a traitor who had been unsuccessfully conspiring to replace Hitler since 30s and was acquitted at Nuremberg because of his covert anti-nazi resistance activities during the war.
Hitler was a genius, no doubt about it. But these scores from surviving Nazis are dubious. As the text says, this is adjusted for old age; compared to men aged 20-30, these guys with IQs in the range of 120-130 would have had IQs closer to 100-110.Also, a lot of these men weren't exactly geniuses in terms of their actions. I know, it's hindsight, but they made a lot of mistakes.>Seyss-InquartDeliberately caused a famine in the Netherlands, where he was the German military governor in 1944-1945. This was a war crime in every possible sense, it served absolutely no military purpose, and it ended up getting him hanged. It was just him being irrationally angry that the Allies had captured a third of the territory he governed by late 1944.>GoeringAs the wartime German joke goes: if you see a white plane, it's American. If you see a black plane, it's British. If you see no planes, it's the glorious Luftwaffe.>RaederTried to do what generations of German admirals had tried before: match the Royal Navy's surface fleet. And like all German admirals before him, he failed, badly, wasting a lot of time, men and resources in the process.>Von SchirachWas a Hitler loyalist until the bitter end, then became a 'reformed Nazi' too late - at least Speer had the common sense to do it early on and avoid further unpleasantness.
