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"All you had to do was stick to oppressing your own people, and we would've kept looking the other way..." (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sadly not a new story, most of the world considered Hitler a great man (He made the cover of Time Magazine) and had an "Aww shucks" attitude to most of the negatives what he did... then he started invading other countries, and even then the first one (Poland) got a shrug at first

"Not In My Backyard!" types have let all kinds of fuckery grow until it became their problem

[–] frezik@midwest.social 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's worth reading the actual Times article that they ran with that cover.

https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539,00.html

Führer of the German people, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, Navy & Air Force, Chancellor of the Third Reich, Herr Hitler reaped on that day at Munich the harvest of an audacious, defiant, ruthless foreign policy he had pursued for five and a half years. He had torn the Treaty of Versailles to shreds. He had rearmed Germany to the teeth— or as close to the teeth as he was able. He had stolen Austria before the eyes of a horrified and apparently impotent world.

It's not complimentary. Time's Man of the Year is based on influence. It's not saying that influence is good.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Same reason Trump was on it during his presidency iirc. Quoting them:

TIME has a long history of featuring presidents on the cover and Trump, whose presidency defied precedents and fractured norms, has been no exception. Eight of the top 10 people to appear most often on TIME’s cover are U.S. presidents.

Nixon, Reagan, and Bill Clinton have all been on more than Trump.

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hitler made the cover of time as a monster, not because he was "great".