Who is your favorite historic figure and why?

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Other than Adolf Hitler as my favorite Historical figure. I'd say after him; It'd be Thomas Cromwell, Hugh Capet, and then Joseph Stalin.
Can you explain why Adolf hitler is your fav>? im just curious.
 
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A tiny hamlet in the Carolina Sandhills
My favorite is Charles Darwin. But that is only because of my debate with Wittgenstein. Gimme 20 minutes, and that'll change.
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Can you explain why Adolf hitler is your fav>? im just curious.
Cause he rose from basically this homeless art loser guy to one of the most powerful dictators ever in history and then destroyed it all himself and all the while leading one of the first racist countries that according to its laws all Jews needed to be killed. Though on top of that it was reading about Hitler that got me interesting in history in the first place.
 
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Bulgaria
Not only Nazi Germany prosecuted the jews, many countries did.
One country in which they found peace was the Ottoman empire (and some western countries).
Still jews were blamed for many things.
 
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Tsuki-Kuni
Cause he rose from basically this homeless art loser guy to one of the most powerful dictators ever in history and then destroyed it all himself and all the while leading one of the first racist countries that according to its laws all Jews needed to be killed. Though on top of that it was reading about Hitler that got me interesting in history in the first place.

I don't consider Hitler a favorite but yes, I think I understand why you find him interesting. I'm reading "The Spear of Destiny" and it talks about his younger years, how he became interested in the occult and legends in which I am pretty much interested, too.
 
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I don't consider Hitler a favorite but yes, I think I understand why you find him interesting. I'm reading "The Spear of Destiny" and it talks about his younger years, how he became interested in the occult and legends in which I am pretty much interested, too.

Well I mean it has more to do with how he rose from the Ashes of homelessness to the throws of being the Fuhrer than any of his misdeeds or grievances that makes him more interesting to me. It makes you know that all things are possible. At least that is what I see when I read about a man like Hitler.
 
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Abraham Lincoln, george washington, thomas jefferson, benjamin franklin, john f kennedy, robert f kennedy, theodore roosevelt, martin luther king jr, rosa parks, octavius, julius caesar, caesar augustus, winston churchill, peter the great, henry VIII, catherine the great, elizabeth I & II, mary queen of scots, hapshepsut, petolemy I, sety I, ramesses II, ghengis khan, constantine I, john d rockefeller, the "general" & the "author" ulysses s grant, thrugood marshall, and so on and so on.
 
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Melbourne, Australia
Thomas Aquinas. Genius of religious philosophy and the balanced conflation of reason and faith. The Russian Tsars.
 

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