Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "Why didn’t Hitler End the War when he Failed to get the OIL of the Caucasus?" video.

  1. You can't take notice of anything Goering said. He was a lazy waste of space who much of the time didn't know which way was up, and when he did know, he told nonsense anyway. He's the guy who told Hitler and Germany that the other side would never be able to drop bombs on Berlin. Yeah, right. Elon Musk is quite wrong when he said that Goering's praise of Hitler had no bearing on Goering's defence. The primary defence of the Germans at Nuremberg was that they followed orders. This is easier to justify if you claim a "genuine" belief in the person giving the orders (Hitler). If Goering (or any of the others) had said the truth, i.e., Hitler was out of his depth and not mentally fit, the next question from the prosecutors would have been "Well, why didn't you do something about it, then?" Yes, I know Hitler could order someone shot, but if the top Nazis had ganged up on him, he would have had to step down. As I said in a comment on another of TIK's videos, you should not over emphasise Hitler's antagonism and measures against the Jews. He was a politician playing for his audience - the German people who at that time had immense racial prejudice against the Jews. He could claim the allies were being led against Germany by the Jews, but that doesn't mean he believed it. He most likely didn't. But it made good propaganda copy. Why didn't Hitler end the war when it all went downhill? Well, when you are a dictator who started a war, subjected your people to hardship during the war, had lots of propaganda broadcast, and enemy bombs are dropping, if you then say "Uh, sorry, it's no good, I'm going to cease the fight", the people would probably lynch you. You certainly would not be able to retain power - the one most important thing that politicians strive for. And Hitler had Parkinsons' disease and was on nasty drugs anyway. He was fine at the beginning of the war, but was rapidly going mentally down hill and not really able to grasp what was going wrong. And he was partly surrounded by yes-men. This rat-forced-into-a-corner situation for Hitler is a critical thing to understand, because we have a situation now. Western politicians think that by sanctions, diplomacy, and other measures, they can get North Korea to give up ICBM's and nuclear weapons. It's not going to happen. After having for years distorted their economy and caused hardship among the people to prop up their military and develop missiles and nuclear bombs, to give it up now would make the leadership look really stupid and it would cause a revolt.
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