Growing Up in Hitler's Germany

[Timmy]

If somebody is interested in a life story of a young German who was not duped, did not want to enlist and later fight, I recommend memoirs of Bruno J Trappmann - I Deserted Hitler.

A lot of people have said if it werent for Hitler starting the war and what he did to the Jewish people he may have gone down in history as one of the greatest leaders and politicians ever.

That only confirms fact, that majority is usually too lazy to get basic facts right (or read Mein Kampf, for example).
There was no Adolf Hitler without a hatred of the Jews...

You can find several books published by people who were anti-Hitler but there is far more published of people who did indeed believe in the Führer.

Which basic facts are you talking about here? I've read Hitler's books: Mein Kampf, Zweites Buch, Table Talks.

Many other politicians "hated" the Jews around that time, a lot still do...

[wm]

Many other politicians "hated" the Jews around that time, a lot still do...

Not really. The Jews were a potent economic and political force - although fragmented, individualistic, internally divided and frequently inept - so they were hated sometimes, as any potent economic and political force.
A political group not hated by someone is just a bunch of hopeless losers.

Before the war Hitler did indeed bring back Germany out of the depression.

Any reasonable German politician was capable of doing that.
And Hitler introduced his own economic problems by his extensive and rapid rearmament, and then swept those problems under the rug. By doing that he severely damaged the German economy.

[Timmy]

Not really. The Jews were a potent economic and political force - although fragmented, individualistic, internally divided and frequently inept - so they were hated sometimes, as any potent economic and political force.
A political group not hated by someone is just a bunch of hopeless losers.

Yes really, even the British politician who would not agree with Hitler's offer to peace was anti-semitic. There were quite a lot of people who believed like Hitler that Europe must be free of "international jewry".

Any reasonable German politician was capable of doing that.
And Hitler introduced his own economic problems by his extensive and rapid rearmament, and then swept those problems under the rug. By doing that he severely damaged the German economy.

It's very easy for you to turn around and say that now but this was not the case. Hitler's the only man to have made such a quick and rapid change in figures of unemployment to employment. In the early 1930's Hitler was the only man who offered the German people "hope" and "change" and he stuck exactly to what he said he would do. Hitler's propaganda posters like "Give me four years' time" in 1937 was believed by so many because of the changes he had made so quickly.

Hitler's rearmament again was just a policy that was accepted and wanted by most everyday life Germans, the average German hated what the Treaty of Versailles had done to Germany during the interwar years.