The Hitler Icon

Butler Shaffer has this to say:

Following World War II, Nazi Germany and Hitler became the standard by which "tyranny" was to be defined. Other regimes were just as vicious and murderous as Hitler’s (e.g., Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot), but their wrongs received little attention from the establishment mind-setters. If you doubt this, go to any library or bookstore and count the number of books written about (a) the Nazi Holocaust, and (b) Stalinist despotism. How many movies have been made about the evils perpetrated by Hitler, and how many about Stalin? So continuous has been the effort to single out Nazism that television’s The History Channel is often referred to as The Hitler Channel, for its frequent showing of films and programs concerning this period.

Stalin had much better press in the media and academia than Hitler.LewRockwell.com