Also yes, articles about Nazis tend to have a demonizing slant, for as yet unknown reasons.
But they're not unique. There have been many genocides since the holocaust.
And while what they did was certainly evil many of the individuals involved were just regular people.
Asking this question is pretty insightful; it becomes clear that Hitler fills the role now more because we need to have somebody in there than because his life was so shocking that everyone's perspective was changed forever after it happened.
The answer to the question is also interesting, but a little less so -- at least for the US, it was a biblical reference, "Pharaoh".
"In the air strike, witnesses said patients were burned alive in the crowded hospital of medecins sans frontieres. Among the dead were three children being treated".
War crime, last week. Almost 200 patients and employees in the hospital.
To talk about how crazy was Hitler this week seems really convenient. Very pleasant and distracting exercise of history.
source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/05/us-afghanistan-att...
Particularly when the article avoids comparison to either modern military drug usage, or allied military drug disbursement at the time. "British troops used 72 million amphetamine tablets in the second world war and the RAF used so many that "Methedrine won the Battle of Britain" according to one report."
But I mean the guy is, literally, Hitler.