Adolf Hitler presented himself to the world as a socialist, and he transformed the German economy into a centrally directed dirigiste regime. Suppose that he had not lived long enough to embark on World War II and the “Final Solution”. He might today be remembered as the man whose progressive governance could have brought peace and prosperity to Europe. After all, if progressives can overlook that faults of Stalin and Mao, how hard would it have been to praise posthumously a Hitler who never had the opportunity to produce the fruits of his ideology?
Taking up that theme, I have channeled the Hitler apologia that British historian (and communist sympathizer) A. J. P. Taylor might have written, if Hitler had fallen from power in 1936, instead of the one that he actually wrote.
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