Is Putin another Hitler?

THE Holocaust Encyclopedia, a publication of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, summarises Nazi Germany's responsibility for the outbreak of World War II.

It says: "Adolf Hitler came to power with the goal of establishing a new racial order in Europe dominated by the German 'master race'. This goal drove Nazi foreign policy, which aimed to: throw off the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles; incorporate territories with ethnic German populations into the Reich; acquire a vast new empire in Eastern Europe; form alliances; and, during the war, persuade other states to participate in the 'final solution'."

An important aspect of Nazi goals, the publication adds, was to control Lebensraum (living space) in Poland and the Soviet Union, populate it with Germans by enslaving or expelling the "inferior" Slavic population, and make Jews disappear entirely from all German-dominated territory.