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Hitler was a 'good guy'

Will Smith has stunned the world by declaring that even Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was essentially a "good" person.

Will Smith has stunned the world by declaring that even Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was essentially a "good" person.

The Men In Black star, 39, is determined to see the best in people, and is convinced the former German dictator did not fully understand the extent of the pain and suffering his actions would cause.

He says, "Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today'.

"I think using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good'.

"Stuff like that just needs reprogramming."

Hitler's rule from 1933 until his suicide in 1945 resulted in the extermination of an estimated six million Jews in the Holocaust, and his invasion of Poland in 1939 led to the start of World War II. - Wenn

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