Trump on Hitler

Trump on Hitler

According to John Kelly, Donald Trump’s longest-serving White House Chief of Staff, Trump said Hitler “did some good things” and he would like to have generals like Hitler had.

Is it every a good thing to say good things about Hitler? Simply, no. Whatever good Hitler did was so overwhelmed by the evils he did that we should never praise Hitler, even for patting a child soldier on the cheek just before sending him out to fight against the invading Allied armies surrounding Berlin.

Anyone who praises Hitler, even by simply saying “Hitler did some good things,” has to be suspected of, at the very least, being insensitive to the Holocaust. Did Hitler know about it? He certainly did. One woman, wife of a Nazi colleague of Hitler’s, during WW2, brought up to Hitler “the Jewish question” and told him she thought the Jews were being mistreated. He reacted very sharply, telling her it was none of her business, and after that she and her husband were banned from being in Hitler’s presence.

It’s like saying “At least Mussolini made the trains run on time.” So what? Anything either Hitler or Mussolini or Franco or any other fascist dictator did that some considered “good” pales in comparison with the terrible deeds they did. Nothing good should be said about any of them including “they did some good things.” It’s like saying “Well, Jeffrey Dahmer did some good things” or “Jack the Ripper must have done some good thing, too.”

And about Hitler’s generals. They were all Nazis. Some of Trump’s defenders say he didn’t know that. What? Has he never studied WW2? Maybe not. Why would Trump or anyone want generals like Hitler had? For what? The main ones were convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and either executed or sent to prison for ten or twenty years!

It seems now that Trump can say absolutely anything, however, terrible, and not turn his supporters away from him. Many people who have known and worked with him say he is a fascist. (Do your own homework, look it up on the internet and Youtube using reliable news sources; watch and listen to them testify to these things.)

America may be only a few weeks away from the demise of our democracy, whether Trump wins or loses. The situation is dire and calls for careful prayer and thought and witness.

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