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Originally Posted by Ammi

..interesting article, Maru...did Hitler have a high emotional intelligence, obviously extreme manipulators in the things he did, have a high level of intelligence as well...but it would be the exact opposite of ‘emotional’, otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to be ‘Hitler’ and the awful things he was capable of...

That's based on the assumption that emotions are necessarily good or positive things... greed, resentment, hatred are all emotions and just as a positive emotional person can live a life full of positive emotion while staying away from hatred... it is perfectly possible for the flipside to be true. So basically it is possible to be an emotional person and yet void of empathy, sympathy, love (of the universal variety).

I would say, really, that the ONLY reason he committed and ordered the awful things that he did was out of emotion. In fact, there's a very good chance that if he hadn't been so distracted / drawn off track by his emotional pursuits (genocide, his hatred of various groups) then Germany might well have won the war.