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 little debate the Nazi dictator is one of the most evil men to have ever lived, with unprecedented depravity against people he didn’t think worthy of living under the Third Reich.
Around 85 million people were killed during the Second World War, a devastating and bloody conflict sparked by his relentless pursuit of a global empire.
Yet, 79 years after he killed himself in a Berlin bunker, more than one in 10 (11 percent) of Americans believe the barbaric German tyrant leader had some ‘good ideas’.
A DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners poll found that more than one in five (21 percent) of both Gen Z and black voters and 19 percent of Hispanic voters agreed with the statement.
The survey asked 1,000 likely voters whether they think Hitler had some ‘good ideas’ or if he was ‘evil and had no redeeming features.’
77 percent said he was ‘evil’, 12 said they were ‘unsure’ and a surprising 11 percent believe he had some redeeming qualities.
When broken down by age group, 21 percent of those under the age of 29 said Hitler had good ideas, compared with 16 percent of those between the ages of 30 and 49, seven percent for voters between 50 and 64 and just five percent for those over 65.
Fourteen percent of Donald Trump supporters said Hitler had some positive aspects, compared to nine percent of Kamala Harris.
‘If you need an example of the corrosive impact that social media can have on younger Americans’ view of the world, this is it,’ James Johnson, founder of J.L. Partners, told DailyMail.com of the startling results.
The poll results seem part of a startling trend with Gen Z being more sympathetic towards some of history’s most evil individuals.
Earlier this month, TikTok was forced to remove AI-generated and translated videos of Hitler’s speeches that had racked up more than one million views.
In one heavily-edited clip, Hitler suggested he didn’t want to the Second World War and essentially attacked when he had no 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 prompted Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
The TikTok clip is also translated in a way to suggest the Fuhrer wanted to protect the lives of women and children.
In reality 1.5 million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust. Tens of thousands of Romani (Gypsy) children and up to 7,000 German youngsters with physical and mental disabilities were also among the murdered.
A comment on one video that racked up 270,000 views read: ‘AH was a good and kind man… this changed my views on him.’
One account with 20,000 followers found by Media Matters had four million views of 12 videos of Hitler speeches.
‘Growing up is realizing Who the villain Really was,’ text around an outline of Hitler reads on one of the posts.
The poll also raises the question of whether children and younger Americans are being taught the full extent of Hitler’s systematic bid to annihilate the Jewish population.
A Pew Research poll in 2020 found that while half of U.S. adults knew what the Holocaust was and when it happened, but less than 50 percent could answer how many Jews were killed and when Hitler came to power.
In December, a 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 three in 10 Gen Z voters believe the views of the anti-Semitic terrorist leader who slaughtered thousands of innocent people were a ‘force for good’.
Family members of 9/11 victims said at the time the findings were ‘horrifying’.
A month earlier, anti-Israel TikTok users sent Bin Laden’s 2002 ‘Letter to America’ with his justification for 9/11 viral.
Some users said their ‘eyes had been opened’ and backed his claim that the attacks were a retaliation for the U.S. supporting Israel.
In the letter he also accused the American government of spreading AIDS throughout the world and described homosexuality as ‘immoral’.
Another DailyMail.com poll from October 2023 found 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.