Many of his decisions during the war were based more on political considerations as opposed to strictly military ones.
Well I belive ALL decisions regarding war are political/economical, but hitler used a key factor that we still use today but with less counter-midia influense.
My great-grandpa was a nazi, and a hard-core one too and I allways wondered why he(like most Germans at the time) where so easely "pulled in" into the nazi regime, some say propaganda, others say that they were forced into to nazism byt threat of death but nobody never considers the state of mind of the German people at the time.
I had a history teacher wich to this day is the best teacher I've ever had and he used to say "We know only half the history of our world, REMEMBER! History is told by the ones who won the war!! Not thoose who lost cause by the end they are either dead or powerless"
This is something i realy take into consiferation when looking back, the Hitler we know is a image. We can only speculate his type based on what we "Think" we know about him and by what we "think" we have of information.
I find amusing how NT's are droped into the "all brains no heart" category, it's simply ridiculous to judge us that way (or any one for that matter). How come other revered political figures are seen as visionaries or brave... I mean if we were to realy analyse other influent leaders...
Napoleon: Killed a shit load of people including his men on the impossible quest of invading Russia in winter, and even more! Stole national treasures that to this very day never returned to their homelands (Monalisa, Venus statue... well praticly the whole louvre museum) made him self tyrant, changed the rules and spilled some blood for it. And yet we se him as one of the most good and influencial people of his era.
Alexander The Great: Responsible for a 10 year campaing of "conquering" wich we think that was simply glorious for a man before his 30's to have one of the biggest empires known to man. Do you honestly think that Alexander convinced macedonians to march for a "Unified world were everybody just gets along" I don't think so... the sodiers were in for the gold and women.
Hitler: Responsible for the greatest rise in the economy of a country in the shortest time ever, created a company called "Volkswagen" wich means Volks(people)+Wagen(Car)= Car of the people on the premis that every german family should have a car. Used the propaganda in a way never used before, found a comon enemy BUT never played Risk, sucked military wise, was very disorgonised, had a thing for picking bad leaders. Yet we look to our history books and read as follows "Hitler=Jew Killer". Funny hu?
I'm not a nazi, just think we are rapping history when we look at Hitler the monster not Hitler the polictitian.
I THINK he has an Idealist or Visionary to unite people so fast under a comon cause is not so NT.