That is odd, but every place has odd fads and what not. 

Hitler was okay.  whenever a state gets restricted, you get a yuga like that.  It was actually really convenient because it keeps power in a row.  Blonde hair and blue eyes is a rare combo.  The people they were talking about had black eyes.  Blue eyes were a marker for something if they are brown and if they are green, they are actually green.

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Wow, I guess appreciating leadership skills makes sense, but I just wonder if they forgot about a man named, oh, I don't know, Ghandi! Maybe the youth are tired of the same-old same-old.

Hitler is a pop icon everywhere.  Usually, it involves making a fool out of him.  Just look at all those Downfall parody videos out there.  He may have been a monster, but Hitler humor is some of the best out there.

Appreciating a good leader? Sure, but like you said, I think his cons outweigh his pros. He's mainly remembered for the horror he induced, so I'm not sure why they would pick him as an icon in general.

are you shitting me??? how can someone simply brush away the holocaust??so its okay to call a mass murderer OKAY?? and everyone has a positive and negative side  i dont think hitler had any bit of a positive side left in him after he decided to kill.why cant they stick with their tree-hugging ghandi, instead of trying to be cool and ending up looking like fools? typically indian.

@pistolxgirl@xanga - Actually, Hitler already knew quite a bit about India through his friends in the German inteligencia.  German scholars had long been studying Indian culture, and Hitler mis-appropriated numerous Indian (mostly Hindu) concepts and symobols -- for instance -- The Swastika and the term 'Aryan' are both of Indian origin and the Swastika is still used to this day by Hindus as a religious symbol.

I find it odd, but at least they agree that killing Jews is not okay. I think what people fail to understand is that the culture in India really respects self-discipline and patriotism - both arguably good qualities in a leader, and certainly needed in a corrupt and emerging country like India. I think what the kids fail to see is that it is these qualities they should be admiring, not the guy himself. There's a difference.

this is the biggest bs I have ever seen.

A friend of mine does not have Xanga, but he wanted to reply, so I'm posting for him. If by any chance you read everything he has to say and would like to respond, he posted his response as a blog on this website: http://brainwipe.blogspot.com/2010/11/am-i-only-person-who-thinks-like-this.htmland you can comment there. Below is his comment.

Though I would never go as far to say I Idolize Hitler; I do have to say that I can understand this phenomena.  Like it or not, Hitler was absolutely brilliant! There is no way around that. His methods could have used some improvements and yes mass genocide is never good. But whether that's the case or not, Hitler still managed something that hadn't even been attempted for years. He expanded a little, economically depressed, demilitarized country into an Empire seemingly over night.

Now for all of you people out there who are too simple minded to realize this, and want to point the blame for every single bad thing that happened in WWII on Hitler. Please, either shoot yourself, or take a history lesson. For those of you who don't know, the Allies knew of Hitlers plans (not right away of course, but definitely before the war broke out) and what did they do? Nothing. In efforts to "avoid another war" the Allies appeased Hitler and let him keep pushing the limits a little further and a little further, until eventually the only remedy was to declare war against him.

The Holocaust.  I'm against and disgusted by the Holocaust just as much as the rest of you, however I tend to see it in different eyes in the aspect of Hitler being a Pop Icon.  Millions and millions of Jewish people were degraded and killed in the most humiliating ways possible, they weren't even treated like humans.  All of this at the hands of Hitler. But apart from that, what about Hitler is so different from any other (dare I say) world leader?  Dare I be more risqué  and say, how is he so different than the Pope? Or God?

The amount of Jewish people killed under Hitlers dictatorship is nothing compared to the amount of other religions who were killed in "the will of God". These "infidels" or in today's terms, "sub-humans" were a plague that needed to be taken care of. In fact a popular term around the time of the Crusades was "To kill an infidel is NOT murder, Tis the path to heaven". So tell me, what is so different about that, to the Holocaust?

Hitler did the same thing any other disgruntled World Leader would do. Take the United States for example. Depending on your stance on the subject that is 911 it is very comparable to Hitler.  Terrorists attack the trade centers, and the president declares war against his enemies. And they're still over there 9 years and counting.

Germany is absolutely destroyed after WWI and is blamed for the entire outbreak, even though it was caused by Serbian rebels assassinating Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand. After the war is over, Germany is forced to pay restoration fees too all of the countries that were damaged by the war, they are forced to assume the blame for the war and are forced to demilitarize the entire country leaving them completely vulnerable to attack.

After WWI comes the Great Depression. For everyone, but Germany feels the effects even more. Until Hitler comes around. He designs an affordable car and offers it to anyone that follows him. This creates jobs and sparks a fire in the German economy. He continues cons like this and using words to manipulate the vast majority of the country until he becomes the leader of the country. The first thing he does as leader of the country is outlaw elections, Germany is now a dictatorship. Using this power he eventually re militarizes the country and starts the conquer of the enemies that wronged his country.

A lot of you probably don't want to admit it but Hitler helped the rest of the world too. Without the start of the second world war, who knows how long the depression would have lasted! With the start of the war came an vast influx in jobs. Not only that but with all the men away at war women started to have a place in the work force. Which in case you haven't noticed is still in place today because after WWII the social norms were changed so much that society just couldn't handle reverting to the way it was before.

Whether you want to see it or not, Hitler did vast amounts of good for the world. Maybe it wasn't his intentions but they were the ramifications of HIS actions nonetheless! So in a place as war torn and poverty stricken as India it makes sense that they idolize a figure like Hitler. There hasn't been a leader like him since his death. He knew how to get shit done. Hitler was brilliant. Crazy but brilliant. Did a lot of bad things, but it doesn't take away from his brilliance at all.

"The killing of Jews was not good, but everybody has a positive and negative side."

LOL is it wrong that i laughed at that? i'm sure everyone has a negative side but i'm not so sure everyone is a homicidal maniac...although, maybe that isn't fair. hitler had a hard life. grew up poor and couldn't make it as an artist...how differently the world would've been if he had become a successful painter.