Racist megalomaniac Adolf Hitler was directly responsible for the murder of around ten million Jews, Gypsies and others he considered "racial inferiors", and caused the deaths of countless others in the Second World War.
(This survey is best suited to measuring the opinions of those living in modern Western democracies. Adolf Hitler obviously doesn't fit into that category, so these results should be taken as loosely illustrative only.)
These are the answers which we judge Adolf Hitler would have given to the survey. Where appropriate, answers
are accompanied by a rationale which explains why
we believe this person would have given the answers we claim.
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New roads and railways should be built by private companies, not the government.
Nazi infrastructure projects such as the autobahns were built by the government, often with forced labour. |   |
Services like health care, education and social security should be provided by the government, not by private enterprise.
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Sometimes interest rates should be raised to reduce inflation, even if doing so would cause a large number of job losses.
Although heavily influenced by the trauma of the 1920s hyperinflation, Hitler preferred to have his bankers print money than allow unemployment to rise. | |
Drivers should pay enough tax to cover the cost of environmental damage caused by motor transport, even if that would price some people off the roads.
Anachronistic, but Hitler took steps to make cars more widely available in Germany. | |
The wealthy should pay a larger proportion of their income in tax than the poor.
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The government should raise revenue by taxing consumption rather than income.
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Overall, economic migrants bring benefits to our country.
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The government should subsidise farmers so that they stay in business, even if it would be cheaper to buy food from abroad.
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Smokers should be required to kick the habit before receiving medical care for smoking-related illnesses.
Hitler hated smoking and started public health campaigns encouraging Germans to quit. | |
Everyone bears a moral responsibility for the actions of their government, even when they do not support them.
... though he would brook no dissent anyway. | |
Anybody who wants top-quality health care should expect to have to pay for it.
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The mix of minorities in public institutions should reflect their numbers in the general population.
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Having individual local representatives is more important than electing parties in exact proportion to their support.
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Officials like public prosecutors should be directly elected rather than chosen by the government.
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For society to be cohesive, it is important that everyone shares a common language.
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Legal protection for free expression creates more trouble than it's worth.
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Nobody should go hungry, even if they refuse to work.
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Some art should receive government funding.
The Nazi régime generated scads of "state art". | |
Our nation has a glorious history.
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A person's social status shouldn't depend on who their parents are.
Sought to impose his racial theories on Germany. | |
We should offer sanctuary to anybody fleeing persecution.
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There are some ethnic groups who can never be fully integrated into our society.
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Everyone should stand up for the National Anthem.
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Class distinctions should exist.
Created numerous "underclasses": of Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, etc. | |
To protect society from drug abuse, narcotics must be banned.
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Alcohol is a more dangerous drug than marijuana.
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Shared religious beliefs should be an important part of our society.
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Family is more important than society.
Family members were encouraged to snoop on one another. | |
Sometimes the only way to make a legitimate point of view heard is to break the law.
Staged an unsuccessful coup. | |
Our society needs more lawyers.
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Some crimes are so serious that the only proper punishment is the death penalty.
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Dealing with nuisance crimes like petty vandalism makes serious crime less likely.
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Everyone should have the right to trial by jury.
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It's more important to rehabilitate criminals than to punish them.
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It is only acceptable to use proportionate force to defend your property from criminals.
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Members of our society should be familiar with the history and traditions of our culture.
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Overall, young people benefit from compulsory military service.
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Schools should concentrate on training people for the workforce.
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Schools should not teach children anything which contradicts their parents' religious faith.
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Some people should not have access to the Internet.
Anachronistic, but the Nazi régime restricted access to other sources of information, for instance radios and newspapers. | |
Correct grammar is important.
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Scientists bear no moral responsibility for how their discoveries are used.
Expected German scientists -- those he hadn't murdered or driven into exile -- to work for the good of the State. | |
Some technologies should never be used, whatever their benefits.
Investigated every type of weapons technology in the war, though having been gassed during in the trenches, refused to use chemical weapons. | |
Some medical research would require so many animal experiments that it should not be done, whatever the benefits.
Hardly likely, since he was happy for medical experiments to be done on people. | |
Religious faith should be based on the literal word of God.
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There is a place for organised religion in government.
Co-opted the German churches to bolster the power of the Nazi state. | |
There are some sexual acts which are immoral, even between consenting adults.
Imprisoned homosexuals in concentration camps. | |
It is immoral to be lazy.
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It is never moral to break the law.
Though he rose to power by breaking the law, when in power he demanded absolute obedience. | |
No woman should be allowed to have an abortion, whatever the circumstances.
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National law should always override international agreements.
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Sometimes civilians are a legitimate military target.
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The people of this country have a very different character to those of our neighbours.
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Aid projects abroad should always be funded by charities, not the taxpayer.
Used state money to fund some overseas projects, though whether destabilising other European states is "aid" is perhaps questionable. | |
It's acceptable for a businessman to bribe a foreign official to complete a sale.
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Our armed forces should intervene to stop genocide in other countries.
Yes, if it's genocide against Germans. Mostly, of course, it was German armed forces doing the genocide. | |
Our sense of right and wrong comes from religious faith.
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Children should always obey their parents.
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In the right circumstances, cutting taxes can increase government revenue.
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Economic globalisation will increase inequality.
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It's more important to make the poor richer than to decrease the gap between rich and poor.
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There is a danger that some large corporations will become more powerful than governments.
Not in Nazi Germany there wasn't. | |
Aggressive foreign policies can put a stop to international terrorism.
Hitler apparently believed that aggressive foreign policies could put a stop to anything. | |
Drug abuse is a problem primarily because of its effects on drug users, not its effects on the rest of society.
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The only way for some workers to achieve fair pay is through collective bargaining.
Hitler co-opted the trade unions, breaking their power completely. | |
Nobody should be sacked for going on strike.
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Small businesses are more important to the economy than large corporations.
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The government should act to stop companies paying executives excessive salaries.
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Workers in the public sector should be paid as much as those doing similar jobs in private industry.
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