Whoa. Will, what are you trying to pull? I am a bit dumbfounded as I am with Mel Gibson. I can respect naivette, what I can't respect is BLINDNESS. Black people were among some of the first people exterminated by Hitler's Final Solution. You need to take a step back and reassess your knowledge of history and understand what Hitler is all about. Visit YAD VASHEM, I'll go with you as my invitation. Jon Levi USA

Will Smith may have a point. I doubt that Hitler considered himself evil.

At least on film you look smart. And by the way, you just lost a large part of your fan-base. Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

I guess those that raped and pillaged and killed your bretheren also thought they were doing the right thing for you. Give us a call when you invite the guy who raped your grandmother for dinner at your house. Sheesh. Does acting kill neurons?

They are so twisted in their thinking - the moral relativism so pervasive that they believe the planning to hit a goal of slaughtering 10,000 or more Jews per camp per day was actually created out of good? Was it good to enslave Black people if the idea was born out of someone's twisted idea of good?? Yeah, sure, BUT GOOD FOR WHO and what purpose?? Wake up, wake up, wake up!! Hitler DID wake up and carefully plan evil. How can you slaughter millions and somehow believe the idea was borne of good intentions. G-d, please help us!

If Hitler was basically a good person, slavery must have been a picnic in the park. If Adolf didn't get up every morning with intentions to do evil, he made damn' sure he had maniacs in charge who did exactly that. Do I get tickets to Will's World from Disney or Criss Angel??

That's what it sounds like to me.

WILL SMITH'S. KNOWLEDGE AND DESIRE TO LEARN BEFORE UTTERING THESE SENTIMENTS IS APPAULING...THERE MUST BE A GREAT FAILUREIS TO INFORM SUFFICIENTLY YOUNG PEOPLE WHICH MUST BE REDRESSED,THE DEVIL MUST NOT BE PORTRAYED AS A SAINT!

And I'm sure there are plenty more like Will Smith walking around. Braindead.

Dieudonné is a French black actor who said many times that Jews suck and that Shoah was not important at all.

He undoubtedly thought that he was doing a great job getting rid of Jews, communists, gypsies, homosexuals and all non-Aryans! That doesn't mean he wasn't evil. Mike

Reading the comments, it's unbelievable how dumb most people are. He never said Hitler was a good person, he said that in his twisted view, Hitler thought that what he was doing was right. Ever heard the quote "The path to hell is paved with good intentions"?. Obviously Hitler thought he was doing the right thing, nobody sets out to do what they believe is the wrong thing, is all Will Smith was saying. Articles like this are what makes me hate the news media, taking what somebody says, and completely twisting it to make an interesting article, regardless of the possibility of ruining someone's career or even life. Unbelievable.

Or, rather, a sensationalist one. Sure, it's good for the website, but is it good for truthiness? Will Smith didn't say "Hitler was essentially good". He said "Hitler thought he was good". That's it. It is a very rational thing to say and no reason to vilify anybody. Also... "Hitler's totalitarian leadership as Germany's leader from 1934 until 1945 resulted in the deaths of an estimated six million Jews in the Holocaust and his invasion of Poland in 1939 led to the start of World War II. " Irrelevant, unless the author of the article means Hitler was, in fact, evil. Seeing how the word is rapidly becoming obsolete, this doesn't make the author any (non-hyper-defensive-Jewish) friends.

You would have been the first one Hitler would have killed!

Piece of cake right? The masters were'nt really that mean. C'mon already! Are you serious about saying hitler was "good"? I'm NO longer a fan of yours. All your money has gone to your head and you seem to have forgotten were you came from.

This is exactly the reason why people stay with what they do best: actors act, soccer-players play soccer, musicians mak music.... The minute you ask these guys something not of their profession bullshit like this gets to the news.

seems to state fact which is hard to challenge; the german dictator did not think that the monstrous, unspeakable, evil that he did was evil. most people who do evil think that they are good people. THE HEADLINE OF THE STORY IS NOT SET IN QUOTES. IF IT IS A QUOTE, THEN, smith is so wrong, so lost, so foolish, so stupid, that he is beyond salvation.

Why does it matter one whit what a US actor thinks about anything, or even if he thinks at all?

What, blaming the Jewish people for all the ills of Germany and demanding the eradication of the Jews from the face of the earth is not evil? Will Smith either has serious mental problems or he is a closet anti-Semite or possibly an African American Neo Nazi! His statement is particularly offensive when you take into consideration the rise of anti-Semitism in the USA and the statements by some denying the Holocaust. I would like Will Smith to give us a straight answer. Does he agree with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Israel should be "wiped of the face of the map? Mr. Smith, a simple YES or NO will do. No explanations just a massive apology to Six Million Jews, 13 Million Russians, countless Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill people and "Enemies of of the State" is what is required! He and Mel Gibson should get together and fight it out for the title of the next Fuhrer of the USA.

We are quoting a scotish newspaper. I have lived in scotland in the past and know at least one thig about the Newspapers there, they are tabloid lies. I am not defending this man, I am just letting you in on the sources at hand.

What he says sounds strangly worded, so some here don't understand it right: He didn't say that killing Jews is good. But that it would be absurd to think that they were going out thinking "today I'm going to be evil" While it is nothing horrible he said. It is also nothing new: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem

Folks, chill out a bit. Yes, what Smith said was incredibly naive, and insensitive considering he's a public figure with a large fan base. But before jumping down his throat, consider that Anne Frank, in her diary, wrote basically the same thing; i.e., that all human beings have a foundation of essential goodness in spirit, no matter how warped their behavior and how sick their minds. Give Willy a break. Let him recant, clarify, grovel, visit Israel as a guest of the ADL, etc....