Best Leader during WWII

[Csargo]

Who do you think was the best leader during WWII?

[Csargo]

I don't want to offend anyone but I voted for Hitler because I believe that Hitler did the best in turning around his country from being a third world country with limited military into probably the best economically sound and strong country in a limited amount of time so that is why I believe Hitler was probably the best leader during WWII.

[GoreBag]

What, Hirohito didn't make the list?

[PanzerJaeger]

Hehe, if the author of the poll cannot even remember the names of the "Italian Dictator" and the "French President" - I doubt they are going to make much of an impact in said poll.

[Aenlic]

As soon as I saw "Italian dictator" and "French president" I started looking for a "gah" option.

[Papewaio]

No Gah! no Vote!

USA... their standard of living went up during WWII.

Where did the great Axis leaders lead their countries to?

One country ended up bisected in half with a wall through its capital.

The other ended up living up to its name of the Rising Sun not once but twice as it was the first country to have nuclear weapons dropped on them.

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Australia had a interesting side effect of all the Italian prisoners of war they picked up... they ended up being released into the local community to work, the cane farmers found them such good workers that they ended up being married into the families... they must have been the best treated POWs.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Italian "Dictator"- Mussolini (Great Man)
French President: First it was Daladier, but for the majority of the war, it was De Gualle.

I'm probably going to have to say Mussolini, because my political beleifs fall closest to his own (I'm more leftwing in some aspects, more right in others). Hitler, with the exception of the Holocost, wasn't a bad leader either, though his economic policies are too, well, socialist for me.

[Marcellus]

I would say Churchill. He was the most inspirational, the one who boosted morale the most at a time when morale would have been very low otherwise.

[caesar44]

Hitler, with the exception of the Holocost, wasn't a bad leader either, though his economic policies are too, well, socialist for me.

Belive me Kaiser , I am really trying to understand this , really . how can any one say that he was great , best , good etc'
After 12 years , Germany was hell . 10,000,000 people less , divided , no economy , no nothing , so how can he be some thing positive ? What , his craziness ? his madness ? His hatred to any thing except himself ? His beauty ? His nose ? His hair ? His vision of smashing all minorities ? His belief in Satanism ? His prosecutions against Jew and Christians ? His militarism ? His boots ? His stupid swastica ? His ideas about Aryans ? What ?

Again I say , tell me some thing new (not the "all the Germans had jobs" thing) , some thing to make me understand how people think of him as a good thing .

[caesar44]

I don't want to offend anyone but I voted for Hitler because I believe that Hitler did the best in turning around his country from being a third world country with limited military into probably the best economically sound and strong country in a limited amount of time so that is why I believe Hitler was probably the best leader during WWII.

[Kagemusha]

I would vote for the other.Marshall Mannerheim of Finland.He had only bad choises to choose from during the war and managed his post better then well.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I would vote for the other.Marshall Mannerheim of Finland.He had only bad choises to choose from during the war and managed his post better then well.

Not a bad vote. He did lose both the direct conflict with the Sovs (because of #s not quality) and by siding with the Krauts for so long, but his range of options did more or less suck. Others would probably have done a lot worse.

Seamus

[Duke Malcolm]

Were there not 2 French presidents, That of the Free French Government in Exile, and of Vichy France?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Both FDR and Stalin. They achieved the same thing--Victroy over their enemies, a bolstering of the economy, a radical change in the way their countries worked.

The means do so however, were quite different.

Stalin plunged his country into economic disaster. Oh, sure, his friends and the scientists did real well, but think about the peasants, the regular soldiers...