Did Hitler like Americans (...and britons...) at least at some point in his life?

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Below are three interesting quotes from 'mein kampf', clearly showing Hiler's admiration for the States and England/britain: 

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"The difference in the territorial area alone between the German states prevents any comparison with the American states. The great difference in territorial area between the very small German states that then existed and the larger, or even still more the largest American Union, demonstrates the inequality of their achievements and shows that they could not take an equal part in founding and shaping the federal Empire."

"In North America, the population of  which consists for the greatest part of Germanic elements 
which mix only very little with the lower, colored races  displays a humanity and a culture different from those of Central and South America, where chiefly the Romanic immigrants have sometimes mixed with the aborigines on a large scale. By this example alone one may clearly and distinctly recognize the influence of the race mixture. The Germanic of the North American continent, who has remained pure and less intermixed, has become the master of that continent, he will remain so until he, too, falls victim  to the shame of blood-mixing. "

"The question whether or not a nation be desirable as an ally is not so much determined by the inert mass of arms which it has at hand but by the obvious presence of a sturdy will to national self-preservation and a heroic courage which will fight through to the last breath. For an alliance is not made between arms but between men.
The British nation will therefore be considered as the most valuable ally in the world as long as it can be counted upon to show that brutality and tenacity in its government, as well as in the spirit of the broad masses, which enables it to carry through to victory any struggle that it once enters upon, no matter how long such a struggle may last, or however great the sacrifice that may be necessary or whatever the means that have to be employed; and all this even though the actual military equipment at hand may be utterly inadequate when compared with that of other nations."
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So to summarize: At least in Mein Kampf hitler (for the most part) likes Britain and America. 
But in some of his speeches he accuses them in racism (go figure...), propaganda and imperialism. 
Also, in Mein Kampf a critique towards propaganda is also mentioned - but he is clearly expressing positive views overall even when commenting ww1 and his battles vs the allies then.

Andy F · Accepted Answer

Thanks for sharing.  I knew Hitler admired the British for being "Aryans" who kicked a lot of butt in the world.

I didn't know that he had anything good to say about the USA.

But you know what?  I DON'T CARE.

Hitler was monster (a)  in terms of his individual psychology, (b) in terms of his vicious racism against Slavs & African Americans and Roma /Gypsies as well as Jews,  and (c) in terms of his arrogant fantasies that he always knew how to wage war better than his generals did.

Out of a mixture of racist contempt for Slavs, a fairly vicious hope of enslaving the Russians and Poles of Eastern Europe and decimating their populations to make "Lebensraum" for the Germans, and his military egotism, Hitler stupidly invaded the USSR in 1941 and ended up seeing the German army's butt get wiped out by fierce Russian resistance and the rigors of the Russian winter.

This was DUMB, and it spelled the end of his precious Third Reich.

From what I've read, when it was clear that Germany would lose the war that he'd started, Hitler then expected his generals to sacrifice themselves and their men in doomed battles against the invading Allied forces, and toward the end he's supposed to have embraced the idea of Germany itself being destroyed in a "Gotterdaemerrung" rather than accept defeat.  Far from loving his own people, he wanted them to accept annihilation because they'd failed to achieve HIS grandiose plans.

These were the acts of a sociopathic monster, IMO.  Even without the Holocaust, which raised his evil legacy to an even higher level of infamy.

If you really admire this guy as you seem to indicate, you need to rethink your ideas of heroism and accept someone who was more positive in his approach to racial and religous differences, other nations and nationalities, and the occasional weakenesses of other human beings.  Hitler is a bad role model for you.

For all these reasons, I don't care what other virtues he may have shown.  He's supposed to have been kind to dogs and an ethnical vegetarian - but so what?

Philip H · Answer

Hitlers actions demonstrated he had the same views as American Leftists and Liberals. 
He believed assets were limited and the only way his Superior German Nation could thrive was to steal the assets of others. Even if he had to kill them for those assets. 
What it takes to create wealth is to take what we are given by the abundant generosity of God and nature and through the intelligent application of Work, raise the value of those assets. Any other method of of gaining Power is a crime because it involves some sort of either deception, extortion, manipultion or other unethical activities all the way up to mass murder.
Hitler liked America's and Great Britian's creativity, productivitiy, and enginuity and sent many spys to the USA and England to steal anything he could. He did that well prior to WW2.

? · Answer

America had and still has the largest population of ethnic Germans and German Americans thus the point for Hitler comparing his country's culture with ours. We should recognize that fact that we have adopted many things that Germany created as being American. Such as hamburgers, hot dogs and pretzels(from Bavaria), dumplings, mustard, those are all German foods.

Anonymous · Answer

Maybe, once. It is said that Castro did & so did Ho ChiMinh. But, your first quote shows that he saw us only as competitors & therefore must be eliminated. He wrote a second book, never published, on world economy. He explained that the worlds economy relied on German engineering.

YB Logical · Answer

Both Mussolini and Hitler were lionized by the left on both sides of the Atlantic early on in their careers.
It wasn't until both men began their atrocities in Europe that the left began to distance themselves from them and began the false narrative that it was the right who promoted the NAZI movement.

? · Answer

He wanted an alliance with the brits, and later commended america for it's racial segregation policies, but that's about it

Peace Through Blinding Force · Answer

Yes, he COPIED the American Progressives - just as literally 100% of today's elected Democrats did.

? · Answer

The Brits, he did, because of their colonization skills. It was before their fall.

dr.pepper106 · Answer

I have never read or heard anything about him liking either.

Anonymous · Answer

He didn&#x27;t mind them. Until they went against him.

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