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Hitler’s Brain Trust — The Men Who Abetted Evil
No one leads alone, not even an absolute ruler
When people study history, they like to focus on individuals. These people are given absolute credit for the deeds of their time as singular people. The best examples of this are Julius Cesar, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler. They are attributed with all of the triumphs and atrocities that occurred on their watch but boiling down these challenging periods of history to single men give a pass to all of the people who supported them in their time.
Adolf Hitler perhaps gets the most potent amount of attention. He is labeled one of the evilest men to ever walk the Earth, and his very life is associated with atrocity. And rightfully so. But focusing all of our time and attention on Hitler as an individual often gives a pass to the dozens of high-ranking officials that made his evil possible.
No one leads alone. Not absolute monarchs. Not dictators. Not presidents. No one. Adolf Hitler surrounded himself with some of the most terrible people in the world at the time and forged a brain trust that has gone down in history as perhaps the most violent regime to ever be assembled.
These are the men that propped up and abetted absolute evil.
