I was sitting in my room reading What Nietzsche Really Said, and I got to the part where it talked about Nietzsche's connection with Hitler (or lack thereof). It got me thinking: it's generally accepted that Hitler went to hell. Especially in entertainment media, Hitler is a fixture in hell. In Little Nicky, Hitler is portrayed as the Devil's favorite sadistic plaything. And it probably gives a sense of security, that the Bad Guys go to hell and the Good Guys go to heaven. But it's just not that simple. Didn't Jesus take on the sins of humanity so that we wouldn't HAVE to endure hell? Hitler conceived of himself as a Christian, and indeed thought that what he did was right in God's eyes, as he says in Mein Kampf: "Hence today I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the Lord." As such, wouldn't one expect him, at the Judgment, to atone for his sins, to beg for forgiveness, and to accept Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Light? Hitler didn't bring about the Holocaust because he thought "Hey, what's the most evil thing I can do?", he thought he was doing the right thing, and he did it well. He was a brilliant man. Horrifically misguided, but brilliant. But the winners write the history books, and since the Allies won WWII (inasmuch anyone can be said to have won), Hitler was condemned in the public eye to the worst possible scenario (granted that he was already dead), which, in the predominantly Christian American and British eye, was hell. Eternal torment for one fairly directly responsible for several million people's deaths and torture. Sounds like a fair deal, right? Well, maybe, apart from two key points: one, we are not the ones to make that decision, and two, God's forgiveness is available to ALL who seek it, including those with bad P.R. Just as we can be forgiven for our own (somewhat smaller-scale, I hope) sins and offenses, so can Hitler and others who have committed various atrocities, if they and we simply ask.