Was Adolf Hitler Banal?

Was Adolf Hitler really just a decorated German war hero saving his country or was he an evil mastermind who planned to exterminate all Jewish people? Questions such as these have been asked for decades, are people naturally evil or are they ordinary people doing what they think is right. Is evil really banal or is it just a different way of thinking that some people do not agree with? The dictionary definition of banal is “so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring” which means that it is unoriginal or normal. Some might say that going to school or to work everyday can become banal because it is the same process repeatedly, every day is the exact same. The dictionary definition of evil is “profoundly immoral and malevolent”, by this definition, anything could be evil in someone's eyes. Some people say that hunting or fishing is evil, but then other people do it to survive and to provide for their families, this shows that evil is more of an opinion because every person on
On September 11, 2001 over 150,000 people died, this is the average amount of people that die around the world on a daily basis, whether it be murder, accidents or natural causes. Over 150,000 people died that day, but we only talked about around 3,000 of them, this is because the other 147,000 people did not die in an attack on one of the largest cities in the world. It is sad to say but these people did not die in a way that was exciting enough for the world to care that much, the world was focused on the people that died as a result of evil. The people who died in car crashes or war or sickness were too banal for the world on that day. Those types of deaths are things that we can all understand: wars happen everyday and people expect them to end in death and sorrow, car crashes and diseases take lives daily as well, it is only the unthinkable tragedies that we focus