June is such a lovely time of year. It's hot. It's sweaty. And there's always down time. Behold, the 10 Most Hated Enemies in American History:
10. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945). Let's get the easy one out of the way. Hitler has always been one of the republic's most-hated enemies, and for good reason. The genocidal German Chancellor would probably make this list 150 years from now, too. To make things interesting, here is a counterfactual: Would Hitler have come to power if the United States had not entered World War I? The First World War was drawing to a brutal, bloody close until American entry turned the tide of the stalemate into a rout that destroyed not only the German Empire but the other polyglot empires in central and eastern Europe, too. The power vacuum that followed the collapse of the German, Russian, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires practically handed over the reins of power to people like Hitler.
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