The French Fuhrer: Genocidal Napoleon was as barbaric as Hitler, historian claims

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Likewise, and perhaps more disturbing, is the effort to diminish the horror that is Hitler by comparing him to Napoleon. While Napoleon was a man of his age, and guilty of the crimes and excesses that the ages of empires produced, Hitler does not have that excuse. His dark dreams, while having their roots in another age, were committed in the middle of the 20th century, 100 years removed from European slavery and it's excesses. To attempt to drag Napoleon down to Hitler's level diminishes the horrors Hitler perpetrated as a goal of his nation and his government.

I'm sorry but Hitler does have that excuse. To say that Hilter was an aberation of his age, is somewhat overstating your case. How many died under Stalin's Pogroms, or Japan's rape of China? How many have died in Africa and Asia over colonial rule or fighting amongst themselves for power? What about the 'killing fields' in Cambodia? How many in Red China have died or been re-educated.
Do you remember 'Ethnic Cleansing' in Bosnia or Iraq? And what does this say for the countries that stood by and watched it all happen?
Man is still the 'Killer Angel'.:kill: and Hiltler was a product not an aberration.:(