Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2059440-20170504220050

alright, here's the deal.. recent takes on alignment has led me to a serious problem on this wiki.. we keep adding Hitler to Lawful Evil and I believe this is wrong, almost all depictions of this tyrant would be neutral evil and/or chaotic evil.

Hitler did not obey any laws he did not personally create, he also regularly backstabbed allies and was extremely unpredictable - the slightest insult could cause him to fly into an uncontrollable rage and his ideology was constantly shifting as he added and divided whenever he saw fit.

take his famous racism, Hitler used it as a tool and often changed things on a whim - he allowed some "undesirables" to survive, killed some "pure" types and so forth, for varying reasons.. he also frequently changed his mind on important war strategies and eventually became a Caligula figure stuck in his bunker and ordering Paris to be burned down, he also was reported to say he wanted Germany completely erased and was glad the Russian would wipe them out, saying the Russians were proving themselves strong (despite originally teaching that they were inferior).

in short, Hitler was a chaotic leader and madman.. I don't think he can be put as Lawful Evil in this wiki - Chaotic Evil can and will enslave people, it may aspire to rule the world, CE can do all the things we associate with LE.. except follow a code of conduct.. Hitler had no code, he was treacherous, easily angered and extremly destructive.. he would even endanger his own goals if he got a new idea, abandoning old ones and leaving them to burn away.

in fiction he is often depicted much as he was in reality - with this knowledge I can not in good faith say Lawful Evil can ever apply to this figure after research. 