But not for the obvious reason that he was a mass murderer.
I hate him for being long winded. Reading his Mein Kampf is absolutely painful. The guy cannot just state an opinion and let it be. Pompous windbag.
Interesting controversy on Hitler, though. Some people define him as rightwing (for his nationalism) and others define him as leftwing (for his socialism).
Personally, I think the terms have lost a lot of meaning.
Oh, and he mentions in his book a prior controversy about trains.
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As regards the objections of so-called practical men, they can be answered as follows: All fears regarding the terrible economic consequences of the ' breaking of interest slavery ' are superfluous; for, in the first place, the previous economic prescriptions have turned out very badly for the German people, and your positions on the problems of national self-maintenance remind us strongly of the reports of similar experts in former times, for example, those of the Bavarian medical board on the question of introducing the railroad. It is well known that none of the fears of this exalted corporation were later realized: the travelers in the trains of the new 'steam horse ' did not get dizzy, the onlookers did not get sick, and the board fences to hide the new invention from sight were given up-only the board fences around the brains of all so-called 'experts' were preserved for posterity.
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Seems even trains were controversial at one time.