Billionaire Praises Hitler, Denounces Democracy

ITN News
Sunday, July 5, 2009

Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has provoked outrage by reportedly praising Adolf Hitler’s ability “to get things done”.

In an outspoken newspaper interview, the 78-year-old billionaire expressed a preference for “strong leaders” like former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Max Mosley, the outgoing head of Formula One’s governing body.

He added: “In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way that he could command a lot of people, able to get things done.

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“In the end he got lost, so he wasn’t a very good dictator because either he had all these things and knew what was going on and insisted, or he just went along with it . . . so either way he wasn’t a dictator.”

Mr Ecclestone said democracy “hasn’t done a lot of good for many countries, including this one”.

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