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microrobert
08-20-2012, 12:14 PM
Australian bank executive apologizes for calling Hitler ‘visionary’

A senior banker at one of Australia’s largest investment banks apologized for suggesting that Hitler was a great visionary.

Michael Hawker, an independent nonexecutive director of the board of the Macquarie Group, told a meeting of bank executives in Sydney Aug. 16: “You have to paint a great picture of your vision of the future if you want people to follow,” the Australian Financial Review quoted him as saying. “Hitler painted a great picture ... Well, maybe not from another point of view.”

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/08/20/3104471/australian-bank-executive-apologizes-for-calling-hitler-visionary