Hitler is a product of eurocentrism, and imperialism. The ideas he had in his book were nothing at all new, they were a product of the thinking that was going on at that time. When he was growing up the extinction of human races was being explained by respected scholars of the time. These people were seen as experts on the issue and it was being justified with their theories. Racism was accepted and became a central element in British imperial ideology. The British committed genocide against the Tasmanians, but nobody ever talks about that.. No Tasmanians exist today. Churchill was just as racist as Hitler and shared a lot of the same ideology, yet he is seen as a hero... The thinking at the time was the racism was scientific, it could be explained with science, giving it justification. If one were upset about genocide, that person would be looked at as uneducated. Germany's intention wasn't to kill Jews, much like the American's intention wasn't to kill Indians, but it was to expand Germany. Germany was only doing what the other European countries had been doing for a long time before it.. Yes, Hitler was bad, I'm not saying he wasn't but the idea I want people to understand is that Hitler was a product of something bigger. He wasn't the root of the problem only a product of it. So your question should be more like will there ever be some bogus excuse that "justifies" killing people..
There has been people that shared Ideology with Hitler both before and after Hitler I mean whats worse, to name a few, what the Americans did? What the Germans did? What the British did? What the Spanish did? Because they're all the same to me. Not to cheapen anything that happened, they are all equally heinous. If you're interested, Exterminate all the Brutes is a good book, that talks all about this..
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