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I'm referring to the political/social Hitler, not his personal issues.
If Hitler had just kept the land he had won in December of 1933, and fortified it, and demanded German nationalism and loyalty, he would have saved Germany from the Bolshevik scum coming out of Russia who are now called progressives.
Hitler's invasion of Poland was too logistically and culturally difficult and costly. He didn't need to do any more land grab to protect Europe from the Soviet scum. He could have come to Poland's aid instead of taking them over, making the Polish hate the German people.
Again, all of this came at the cost of blaming the Jews for everything that had befallen Germany in WW1 and since. They were subjected to heinous human rights violations and property appropriation by his regime long, long before the Holocaust ever became a formal action. Hindenburg saw him as dangerous before he came to power and rightfully so.
I agree that, had he stopped at, say, reclaiming Pre-WW1 borders and done nothing more, his human rights travesties to that point may have been largely forgiven. But even on a political level, what he had done to ascend to power, even before WW2, wasn't really admirable. He gave the German public a racial scapegoat to fuel the fire, and his election platform was more or less to dispose of the Jews and their influence (one way or another, possibly forced emigration) and to literally do away with democracy.