Despicable Hitler?

Napoleon once said: History is the version of the past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Adolf Hitler, the so called worst dictator of all times has also been victimized by the historians and chroniclers. It is true that he was an autocratic ruler, he was a war monger and his actions led to massive destruction not only in Europe but throughout the globe. He was not the only one to do so, his predecessors from the civilized world and from the great democracies have also committed same crimes but, as they were victors, no one blames them for their acts of maintaining the civilized order of the world.

To this day the media including the print and the electronic media portray the Nazis as a band of psychopaths who first captured Europe and then unleashed their reign of terror, conducted the genocide of the European Jews known as the holocaust and in the end were defeated by the Allies. No one says that Nazi rivals committed all those crimes that were committed by them during the twentieth century.

The Pax Brittania  ushered in an era of extended peace in Britain, this in turn led them to wage more wars and capture more colonies across the globe and by late 1920s, 25% of world’s population lived under the British Rule. These colonial possessions were not gained through peace, but through brutal tactics.

The loot and plunder of the Indian subcontinent at the hands of the British is the worst possible atrocity committed by any nation against another. During the two hundred years of the Anglican rule, the Brits fought several wars against the natives; exiled, executed and imprisoned thousands of Indians who were against their reign of terror.

They used India as a factory to produce valuable goods and export them across the globe. But this was considered as a civilized act by the most highly intellectual beings on the earth. And even after this we replicate Mr. Churchill’s victory sign ‘V’ to celebrate our triumphs. Yet the Nazi salute is a taboo and if someone makes this gesture in public, he gets prosecuted and is imprisoned in Europe.

This shows that historians’ pen is the most prejudiced pen in the world; they can carve you as a saint and on the other hand can also carve you as a demon. To sum up the world only follows the victors and the defeated masses are always demonized.

Hitler was not a demon if we put him at par with his adversaries and one can replicate him as he replicates Churchill.

Hail Hitler!