Hitler's Personal Need To Destroy All Works In the French Lourve

To try to examine the life of a human like Hitler has to expand in to more than the slaughter of millions of people when you learn he was going to destroy all the great art works in the Louvre art museum in Paris. How could a human should be so tortured to even think such a thing? Separate this from the killing of people you can add to the list by listing Stalin, Mao, Genghis Khan but exterminating a race and destroying what the soul perceives as beauty has to numb the human experience to before man set foot on Earth. How deep can madness travel? It is inconceivable to know this lost person could function at all. I cannot begin to contemplate why such a person was put on Earth and given such power. If there was a more tortured soul in the history of the world I don't know of it. Goodness or blessings come in may forms when you consider he perished at the hands of the Americans and the Russians.
I chose not to post this in the History section because it is about a human being that so impacted the world with horror his very name is horror. The question of "why" will live in the minds of good people forever.

He was also OBSESSED with Napolean and even went so far as to try and mimic Napoleans failed plans which in turn failed. Yes, he was mental IMO.

If the Islamists win here, you can kiss the Smithsonian goodbye.

rhinefire said:

To try to examine the life of a human like Hitler has to expand in to more than the slaughter of millions of people when you learn he was going to destroy all the great art works in the Louvre art museum in Paris.

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First of all.. learn to uses paragraphs!

Secondly the destruction of art, religious symbols and so on by conquering armies is a well know issue and a way to subdue areas. The Romans did it, the American military did it against the Indians and so on. It is not unheard off.

How could a human should be so tortured to even think such a thing? Separate this from the killing of people you can add to the list by listing Stalin, Mao, Genghis Khan but exterminating a race and destroying what the soul perceives as beauty has to numb the human experience to before man set foot on Earth. How deep can madness travel?

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Deep. The extermination or attempt of such by conquering armies, mad men, religions and so on, is part of our history and hardly limited to the names you listed. For example the genocide of the American Indian by Europeans, the genocide in various African countries, the genocide in China through its history is well known.. whole regions were butchered by conquering armies in China.

It is inconceivable to know this lost person could function at all. I cannot begin to contemplate why such a person was put on Earth and given such power. If there was a more tortured soul in the history of the world I don't know of it.

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There were more "tortured souls" than Hitler. By all accounts Hitler never had blood on his own hands, where as other leaders/persons through out history have. Luis Garavito comes to mind as a single person, or Pedro Lopez.

If you want politicians then people like Talat Pasha, Robespierre, Leopold II, Tomas de Torquemada, Idi Amin (actually saw him once...), Pol Pot or Vlad Dracula. All did or ordered unspeakable things against other human beings. Or Nero, Caligula who screwed his own sister and cut their baby from her body.. just saying there are plenty of examples of just as bad if not worse behavior than Hitler. Vlad for example is estimated to have killed 20% of his population if all the stories are true..

Goodness or blessings come in may forms when you consider he perished at the hands of the Americans and the Russians.

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He did not.. supposedly suicide. And nice of you to forget the rest of the allies..

rhinefire said:

To try to examine the life of a human like Hitler has to expand in to more than the slaughter of millions of people when you learn he was going to destroy all the great art works in the Louvre art museum in Paris. How could a human should be so tortured to even think such a thing? Separate this from the killing of people you can add to the list by listing Stalin, Mao, Genghis Khan but exterminating a race and destroying what the soul perceives as beauty has to numb the human experience to before man set foot on Earth. How deep can madness travel? It is inconceivable to know this lost person could function at all. I cannot begin to contemplate why such a person was put on Earth and given such power. If there was a more tortured soul in the history of the world I don't know of it. Goodness or blessings come in may forms when you consider he perished at the hands of the Americans and the Russians.
I chose not to post this in the History section because it is about a human being that so impacted the world with horror his very name is horror. The question of "why" will live in the minds of good people forever.

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Politics. If you're a militaristic despot, it makes sense that you'd move to suppress the artistic life of those residing beneath the hammer, art being an expression of spiritual consciousness at odds with the despot's requirement for uniformity. Further, though I'd find myself in the minority, I don't believe he was clinically insane. I well understand the desire for that interpretation, but it doesn't stand. Insanity doesn't lend itself to the patience, self-possession and most importantly, the stability, necessitated by long-term political and military orchestration. Because Hitler was an evil man, his actions couldn't have been the product of mental illness. It's only more comforting to believe as much. The idea of some solitary maniac with a gift for oratory is only more palatable to the masses, than the possibility of evil as a cohesive potential.

These works were to be "secured" by the Nazis, not intended to be destroyed from what I have read. They were confiscated and moved to Germany. This may be considered theft but the long view is that they were being preserved from the ravages of war. In war it is always common that once security infrastructure breaks down in a region, the looting begins. Priceless treasures, works of art etc. are highly sought after by looters. Some are lost forever. It appears what the Nazis did first and foremost was to confiscate all valuable art and to catalog them. They were then brought to Berlin for "safe keeping". While this is arguably a war crime it is preferable to the alternative, do nothing and allow the locals to steal everything that is no longer being kept secure and sell it to the black market. This is exactly what happened in Iraq where priceless treasures from antiquity are now lost forever.

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"In the months preceding the 2003 Iraq war, starting in December and January, various antiquities experts, including representatives from the American Council for Cultural Policy asked the Pentagon and the UK government to ensure the museum's safety from both combat and looting."

"The U.S. government was criticised for doing nothing to protect the museum after occupying Baghdad. Dr. Irving Finkel of the British Museum said the looting was "entirely predictable and could easily have been stopped." Martin E. Sullivan, chairman of the U.S. President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property, and U.S. State Department cultural advisors Gary Vikan and Richard S. Lanier resigned in protest."

French President Jacques Chirac on April 16, 2003, declared the incident "a crime against humanity."

"The museum has been protected since its looting, but archaeological sites in Iraq were left almost entirely unprotected by coalition forces, and there has been massive looting, especially in the period just before the invasion (when Saddam Hussein pulled forces away from site protection) and between summer 2003 and the end of 2007. Estimates are that 400-600,000 artifacts have been plundered."


Sounds to me like the Nazis were far more organized.