i think of it this way. Hitler was an evil genious, and stalin was geniously evil(if thats such a term:))
While Hitler had good intentions to start with, his evil side took over being fueled by his intelligence, and his arrogence. Stalin was not so much of an all round genious more that when it came to the horrible acts, he was just very good. If that makes any sense

I wouldn't say Hitler had good intentions.  In Mein Kampf he already had outlined his plans for all inferior peoples.  Didn't Stalin kill his closest advisors and family?

I personally think that Hitler was worse than Stalin.  It's true that Stalin killed more people than Hitler did, but Stalin killed to control his people (like any evil dictator)-Hitler killed just for the sake of killing.  He hated a particular group of so called "inferior" people and wanted them wiped out even though they really didn't oppose him.  Therefore, Hitler was worse.

I hate them both.

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I couldn't have said it better myself.   

As for who killed most - If you attribute the 50 million deaths of WWII directly to Hitler (after all, popular opinion dictates that there would have been no "world war" had it not been for his and Germany's agression, at least not on the scale that resulted), then Hitler is probably ahead by 20 million or so.

But then we really don't know how many Stalin is responsible for, do we. Estimates put it at 30 million, but who really knows.

As for Hitler being 'Intelligent' - I doubt he actually was of more than average intelligence. He certainly had a gift for oratory, and he also had a knack for getting to the heart of the people's 'pet peeves'. It's these skills that he used to 'fool' and 'rile' the German people (who didn't need alot of persuading anyway), that allowed for his rise. The Allies total blindness and apathy regarding the state of the German economy and other socio-economic consequences of Verseilles would have to be counted among one of the main reasons for WWII coming about.
Many (before me) have said that WWII was a direct result of the stupdity of WWI. Just a different type of stupidity. Period.

The tactics that won the campaigns in Polland, The Lowlands and France were due to mainly the 'Blitzkreig' philosophy, which was not Hitlers at all. The great Tank commanders, such as Rommel and Guderian were responsible for speed of those victories, and Hitler knew it. Along with the rest of Europe's 'lack of stomach' for war.

No, not a genius by any stretch. Talented, yes. His biggest problem was that he actually thought he was right!!

As someone pointed out earlier, the mans evil leanings and his 'unreasonable' and 'unfounded' ideas about race and superiority were well documented when he was a nobody. So he was always going to be 'trouble' 

They're really equal. I mean Hitler killed off 6 million people of his own race (he was half jewish) & Stalin killed off all of his officers. Hitler wanted to rule Europe & Stalin already ruled half of Asia. Hitler never went higher in the army than coporal. (Churchill would call him Coporal Hitler before the war) Stalin had little military experience. Only thing that saved Russia (and Stalin) from  annihilation was the winter. Hitler was too busy sleeping to stop D-Day. Truthfully they both sucked when it came to commanding an army. Personally i think that they were equally bad commanders (though its obvious that Stalin was either a little better or a little luckier than hitler)
To Round it off they were both mean #$!!#@$!& & its good thing they're both dead. (If we were talking anybody else that would see cruel, huh)

I think Hitlers father came from a Jewish background. But with Nazi ideology this didn't matter as the jewishness went down the mothers side of the family.

As for Stalin being a useless military commander, this he was, but unlike Hitler, Stalin realised this and quickly gave control of his armies to his Generals and didn't interfere.

As for who is worse, it is Hitler, simply because of the brutal efficiency at which he disposed of those ethnic groups he didn't like.

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He didn't do that just one single time...the whole german army after 1935 was -seen from the treaty of Versailles- completely "illegal".
He didn't care about it either,he just wanted revenge for it on the French.


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Graf von Stauffenberg. Stunning plan for an assassination and the "life after",but a wooden table saved Hitler's life. This wasn't the only attempt to kill him. There were dozens,if not  hundreds more...

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Gavrilo Princip was spared from a death sentence only because he was a minor (17) when he fired the bullets.  The Austrians would have concocted some other excuse to "deal with the Serbian matter"  even if it had not been handed to them on such a nice platter as the assasination of the Archduke.