The Historian’s Hero
While in school, when I learnt about Adolf Hitler, I noticed that he was being portrayed as the epitome of evil. This image of Adolf Hitler as an undisputed villain is ubiquitous all over the world, to the point that anyone denying the holocaust can be put behind bars in Europe. To me, this overtly emphatic discourse somehow appeared to be a prejudiced exaggeration. There surely had to be something about this man who pulled out Germany from the utter collapse it suffered in World War I and the consequent Treaty of Versailles and made her strong and competent enough to initiate an entire World War yet again! Hence, to give the devil his due, I purchased a copy of Mein Kamph from Planet M to understand the other side of the story. So impressed was I with his views on democracy and certain other social issues that for many years hence my email address was parvez_hitler@yahoo.co.in; not out of some love for Adolf per se, but as a mark of protest against the systematic domonisation of a per