Talk:Adolf Hitler/Archive 2

Not sure where to start, but...

I'm moving the paragraph below, as just one example of a great deal of assumption about Hitler, stated as fact with one fairly obscure source:

Historians have discovered the mystical and occult sources of Hitler's racial ideology. For Hitler, race was not simply a political issue, but the foundation of world history. He believed that the Aryan race, "to which all 'true' Germans belonged was the race whose blood (soul) was of the highest degree." To Hitler, the Jews were not members of a religious creed, but a specific race, which was "the embodiment of evil." Hitler's views were influenced by pseudoscientific racial studies and the revival of an interest in occultism in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. Leading occultists emphasized the racial superiority of the Aryan Germans and employed a variety of occult symbols, including the swastika. In addition, during the 1920s, Hitler associated with the Thule Society, an occult group in Munich.

Hitler's motivation is decidedly not a matter of consensus. Ron Rosenbaum's 1998 Explaining Hitler, for example, is a collection of analyses of essays with different explanations of his motivation. Howard C. Berkowitz 03:35, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

OK, moved in the rewrite and archived earlier talk

Still improving the article and waiting for more reference books to arrive, but I believe it to be a considerable improvement. Both National Socialism and The Holocaust also need work. Howard C. Berkowitz 02:19, 16 December 2010 (UTC)