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Originally posted by NY Madman:

After the war, they were a completely beaten and bankrupt country. The Treaty of Versailles beat them down even further. Yet in a very short span of a few years they rose to be one of the most powerful nations on earth. Literally one step from European domination and who knows where it would have went beyond that. The atrocities would have also followed.
Stopping before the atrocities and the invasion of other countries does that make Hitler a great leader as opposed to someone like Pol Pot who destroyed their country?