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Napolean and the Roman emporers of which you speak had some actual military victories to counterbalance their other atrocities. Hitler brought nothing but ruin and dishonor to his beloved German people, and lost the war to boot. No. History will remember Hitler forever as a blustering fool who invented industrial scale genocide. He'll be sitting alongside Nero and Caligula in the collective memory, not Napolean and Julius Caesar.

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This is the current sentiment yes, but time will shed a bunch of facts.

I personally find Napoleon and Julius Caesar as completely uninspiring figures. Their accomplishments are worthless but for some reason praised from the perspective of history.

A big reason for this is that history finds explanations after things happened. They attribute to these "leaders" way too much.

> This is the current sentiment yes, but time will shed a bunch of facts.

Reveal these hidden facts! To which facts do you refer, exactly?

Facts related to the atrocities committed during his rule. The current sentiment does not really tell how the future will look at the events.

Russians have monuments that praise the rulers that were ruthless and brutally destructive towards the human spirit and it's been less than 100 years ago since these events happened.

Just because current rule in Europe/Germany finds him horrible it does not mean that in 200 years these events will be looked at with the same eyes.

> Facts related to the atrocities committed during his rule.

If I had asked "The facts to which you refer are related to what?" then that would be an excellent answer to the question!

I asked "To which facts do you refer?": What are these facts?

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