Top 10 Things the Nazis got Right (ARTICLE)

Taken from one of my favorite webistes, Listverse.com

Here is a list of 10 things the Nazis did that were arguably good in nature and practice. The list does not glorify Germany's most notorious regime, but rather humanizes it.

Top 10 Things the Nazis Got Right

The thing I found most fascinating was the Autobahn. I did not know it was a Nazi construction, nor did I know it preceded the U.S. Interstate system. Those damn Germans are always doing things first I guess. Interesting...

I fail to see how torturing people with hypothermia and phosgene gas is "getting it right".

This list could have 100 different examples, and its still is nothing in comparison to the 60 millions lives lost... sorry, I really don't care...

I'm beginning to wonder about some of the stuff on OT... more support here for Hitler than at an Aryan punk concert...

pretty good list except for #6

Listverse, or as I like to call it Lagverse! Seriously is it just me or is that one of the slowest to load websites in the world! Anyway I do like the site, even if it's very, VERY American biased but then they are based in America. It's like a lot of lists that talk about things like 'Top 10 bands you never heard of" would list some British bands that are almost house hold names here in the UK. Plus they fill up a lot of the top sports lists with Baseball and American Football. I think they realise this themselves so they make sure the number 1 spot always goes to somewhere foreign but that's such a blatant suck up.

Yeah, if it weren't for the thing with the Jews and attacking the West, the Nazis would be very well thought of.

I'm beginning to wonder about some of the stuff on OT... more support here for Hitler than at an Aryan punk concert...

heysharpshooter

Really? I usually avoid the "H!tler" topics, so I guess I wouldn't know.

how great the Nazis would be if they weren't Anti-Semites...heatsinkhole

Yeah, if it weren't for the thing with the Jews and attacking the West, the Nazis would be very well thought of.

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I'm beginning to wonder about some of the stuff on OT... more support here for Hitler than at an Aryan punk concert...

Palantas

Really? I usually avoid the "H!tler" topics, so I guess I wouldn't know.

Your smarter than me I suppose... I can't seem to aviod them... and they pop up pretty regularly...

As a treehugger, I am pleasantly surprised.

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Harisemo

Wow, the first one on the list is "banning vivisection". I'm guessing this list was written by an animal rights activist, because only they could be so ignorant as to forget that while the Nazis had a problem with vivisection on animals they had zero qualms about performing vivisection on concentration camp prisoners.gameguy6700

[QUOTE="gameguy6700"]Wow, the first one on the list is "banning vivisection". I'm guessing this list was written by an animal rights activist, because only they could be so ignorant as to forget that while the Nazis had a problem with vivisection on animals they had zero qualms about performing vivisection on concentration camp prisoners.Blaminator1221

Medical Advancement at the cost of hundreds of thousands used for experimentation. Nazi sympathizers are all I could think as I read that article, that's not a good thing by the way.

As much as I love the Volkswagen, I would still say the cons outweigh the pros.

[QUOTE="heatsinkhole"]how great the Nazis would be if they weren't Anti-Semites...wslacker2

Facism =/= Socialism

[QUOTE="gameguy6700"]Wow, the first one on the list is "banning vivisection". I'm guessing this list was written by an animal rights activist, because only they could be so ignorant as to forget that while the Nazis had a problem with vivisection on animals they had zero qualms about performing vivisection on concentration camp prisoners.Blaminator1221

Did you completely ignore what the guy just said? Does it matter that they created a law that banned Vivisection IF THEY STILL CONDUCTED VIVISECTION?

During the Civil War the United States freed slaves, granted African Americans civil liberties, granted them the right to vote, granted them equality... Yet for the next 100 years they still had none of these in most cases... Does that mean the United States did it right? Does that mean the United States was a haven of freedom? No. Not unless you were white. Not until the 1960's.

how great the Nazis would be if they weren't Anti-Semites...heatsinkhole

I fail to see how torturing people with hypothermia and phosgene gas is "getting it right".

sonicare

Yes they were brilliant in many areas. However, the insanity in others makes you kinda forget about the good things they brought into the world.

The thing I found most fascinating was the Autobahn. I did not know it was a Nazi construction, nor did I know it preceded the U.S. Interstate system. Those damn Germans are always doing things first I guess. Interesting...

Uncle_Uzi

Medical advances ? But they messed with people and tested people to see what would happen. It's hardly something they got right.

Medical advances ? But they messed with people and tested people to see what would happen. It's hardly something they got right.

sambo2011

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Medical advances ? But they messed with people and tested people to see what would happen. It's hardly something they got right.

Deihjan

I know, but these people were forced into this because of the type of person they was. Morally they got it wrong really

[QUOTE="heatsinkhole"]how great the Nazis would be if they weren't Anti-Semites...wslacker2

I fail to see how torturing people with hypothermia and phosgene gas is "getting it right".

sonicare

I fail to see how Germany can be considered Nazi simply because the governing party is Nazy.

THats like saying the US is entirely made up of democrats, or Norway is entirely socialist, etc, etc.

The simple fact is many of those improvements and innovations came from honest hardworking Germans, not nazis, and a lot of them occured prior to the Holocaust.

I really, really, really hate this political oversensitivity...

...its better to call all Germans as Nazis because, God forbid, we say something nice about the Germans from 1930-1945.

...its better not be able to play as a Luftwaffe pilot or a German soldier in WWII video games because, God forbid, we'd be playing as a member of something that unknowingly supports the extermination of the Jews.

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[QUOTE="Deihjan"] You can't advance in science without a few failures first.Deihjan

I know, but these people were forced into this because of the type of person they was. Morally they got it wrong really

morality always has a place, wtf are you talking about?

I'd rather stay right where we are and retain my humanity, than advance without it.

Even though the Holocaust was horrible, the time of the Nazis was somewhat a renaissance for Germany. There were many expeditions to uncover artifacts, such as El Dorado (if you ever played Uncharted, you can see German Uboats throughout the game), and (sort of like a necessary evil), many breakthroughs about medicine and the human body were made (since the Jews served as test subjects for Nazi doctors). It was a horrible time no less, but it did have a small amount of good that came out of it. Rheiken

Even though the Holocaust was horrible, the time of the Nazis was somewhat a renaissance for Germany. There were many expeditions to uncover artifacts, such as El Dorado (if you ever played Uncharted, you can see German Uboats throughout the game), and (sort of like a necessary evil), many breakthroughs about medicine and the human body were made (since the Jews served as test subjects for Nazi doctors). It was a horrible time no less, but it did have a small amount of good that came out of it. Rheiken

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[QUOTE="Deihjan"] You can't advance in science without a few failures first.Deihjan

I know, but these people were forced into this because of the type of person they was. Morally they got it wrong really

I suppose you are right thinking about it. They did give us a lot of medical information which we do use today.

[QUOTE="Deihjan"][QUOTE="sambo2011"]

I know, but these people were forced into this because of the type of person they was. Morally they got it wrong really

I suppose you are right thinking about it. They did give us a lot of medical information which we do use today.

[QUOTE="sambo2011"]

[QUOTE="Deihjan"] Morality has no place when you want to advance. I'm not saying it was right, to put bleach into the eyes of jews, to see if they could turn irises blue, or cutting off the chest skin of young jewish men, to make lampshades, but you really have to take chances when you want to see changes.lowkey254

I suppose you are right thinking about it. They did give us a lot of medical information which we do use today.

[QUOTE="lowkey254"][QUOTE="sambo2011"]

I suppose you are right thinking about it. They did give us a lot of medical information which we do use today.

Deihjan

It's a sad truth of the world, but I don't think morality has to go out the window. Humanity, on the other hand...

I'd have to disagree with firstly point 10. Vivisection on animals is wrong and they were right to ban it, however it's somewhat hypocritical to ban it on animals and then continue to carry it out on POW's and in concentration camps which is an utterly disgusting act. Point 6 ignores the fact that the rocketry that the Nazi's did introduce was used on London in the form of V2 rockets which completely destroyed parts of my Capital killing thousands in a hail of fire. Finally point one seems to point out that these medical advances were the concequence of torture on prisoners and then completely ignores it!

In my opinion such means never EVER justify the result.

Very much dislike.