Why, PoppaGator? Because people use Hitler as a handy repository for all their own hatred, fear, and negatige karma. It is comforting for them to make him ever bigger and more evil in their own minds. It saves them having to examine themselves and their own faults more closely.

The Americans did this recently with Saddam Hussein too, but they have killed far more innocent people and invaded far more countries than Saddam ever managed to.