I&#x27;ll probably maintain for all my days that there is no good or evil, just acts. Yes, cry &quot;moral relativism!&quot;, but morals are social constructs, whether you like it or not - there is no universal law of morality, even if your name is Kant.<p>Hitler thought he was good. Those who followed him thought he was good. In the narrative and perceptive reality of nazi Germany he <i>was</i> good. My grandmother waxes lyrical about the wonderful and charismatic Herr Hitler (she&#x27;s Austrian, was a hitlerjugendherberge), and listening to her makes oh so clear the dreams and glory that hitler successfully sold to the very disillusioned masses.<p>He wasn&#x27;t evil. He just served a moral code so alien and repulsive to us today that we write it off as &quot;evil&quot;. In fact, at the time, his politics were aligned with those of the US, UK, and other allied powers - eugenics, fascism, and antisemitism were rife in all - but it was their expansionist policy which ultimately led to the branding as evil and ww2.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong - I&#x27;m no apologist - but I do try to understand events from a contemporaneous and empathic perspective.