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Originally posted by jm951
Makes you wonder about Time's judgement.
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Actually not at all. Things are never black & white - even though life would be so much easier if such were the case. Hitler is a great example of this point. The name is universally held as one of the worst examples of evil - yet much of what he accomplished was fabulously impressive stuff. Everything in leadership is a matter of perspective, context and outcome.
Often in following powerful leaders, people get so caught up in the vision and the apparent victories along the way that they willingly end up in a place that they would never have seen themselves in the first place.
History has countless examples of this phenomena - Hitler is only one.