Adolf Hitler’s reign of terror led to the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust and the darkest moments in history.
There is no doubt that the Nazi dictator is one of the most evil men who ever lived, with unprecedented depravity against people he did not consider worthy of living under the Third Reich.
Around 85 million people died during World War II, a devastating and bloody conflict sparked by their relentless pursuit of global empire.
Yet 79 years after he committed suicide in a Berlin bunker, more than one in 10 (11 percent) Americans believe the barbaric German tyrant leader had some “good ideas.”
A DailyMail.com/JL Partners poll found that more than one in five (21 percent) of Gen Z and black voters and 19 percent of Hispanic voters agreed with the statement.
A DailyMail.com/JL Partners poll may reveal that one in 10 Americans believe Adolf Hitler had some “good ideas”
The poll asked 1,000 likely voters whether they thought Hitler had some “good ideas” or whether he was “evil and had no redeeming characteristics.”
77 percent said he was “evil,” 12 said they were “insecure” and a surprising 11 percent believe he had some redeeming qualities.
When broken down by age group, 21 percent of those under 29 said Hitler had good ideas, compared to 16 percent of those between 30 and 49, seven percent of voters between 50 and 64 years old and only five percent of those over 65 years old.
Fourteen percent of Donald Trump supporters said Hitler had some positives, compared to nine percent for Kamala Harris.
“If you needed an example of the corrosive impact social media can have on younger Americans’ worldview, this is it,” James Johnson, founder of JL Partners, told DailyMail.com of the surprising results.
The survey results seem part of a surprising trend in which Generation Z is more sympathetic to some of the most evil individuals in history.
Earlier this month, TikTok was forced to remove translated, AI-generated videos of Hitler’s speeches that had racked up more than a million views.
In a heavily edited clip, Hitler suggested he didn’t want World War II and essentially attacked when he had no other choice.
While the cause of the conflict has been a focus of discussion for decades, it was Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939 that led Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
The TikTok clip is also translated in a way to suggest that the Führer wanted to protect the lives of women and children.
In reality, 1.5 million Jewish children were murdered in the Holocaust. Among those killed were also tens of thousands of Roma (Gypsy) children and up to 7,000 young Germans with physical and mental disabilities.
One comment on a video that racked up 270,000 views read: “AH he was a good and kind man…this changed my opinion of him.”
An account with 20,000 followers found by Media Matters had four million views of 12 videos of Hitler’s speeches.
“Growing up is realizing who the villain really was,” reads the text around a silhouette of Hitler in one of the posts.
The DailyMail.com/JL Partners poll found that more than one in five (21 percent) of Gen Z and Black voters agreed with the statement.
The survey also raises the question of whether children and younger Americans are being taught the full extent of Hitler’s systematic attempt to annihilate the Jewish population.
TO Pew Research Survey in 2020 found that while half of American adults knew what the Holocaust was and when it occurred, less than 50 percent could answer how many Jews were murdered and when Hitler came to power.
In December, DailyMail.com found that one in five young Americans had a positive view of 9/11 mastermind and Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden.
The alarming survey also found that three in 10 Gen Z voters believe the views of the anti-Semitic terrorist leader who massacred thousands of innocent people were a “force for good.”
Relatives of 9/11 victims said at the time that the findings were “horrifying.”
A month earlier, anti-Israel TikTok users sent Bin Laden’s 2002 ‘Letter to America’ with his 9/11 justification.
Some users said their “eyes had been opened” and supported his claim that the attacks were retaliation for US support for Israel.
In the letter he also accused the American government of spreading AIDS throughout the world and called homosexuality “immoral.”
Another DailyMail.com poll from October 2023 found that one in 10 voters under the age of 30 had a positive view of Hamas, despite the group’s murderous attack on Israel that killed more than 1,300 men, women and children.