User blog comment:Fimber/Things that went wrong in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"/@comment-28600204-20121022101719/@comment-5102537-20121022144040

The difference is that Hitler was insane which was even obvious when shouting like an idiot in his speeches. Uther wasn't insane.

The reason why he hunted magic down has already been explained. There is no way of comparing anything about Hitler to Uther, not even about the point of view of people because we had a lot deeper insight into Uther's personality and what was really going on than anyone had in Hitler's personality, aside from actually seeing that he was insane - which didn't bother a lot of people since he gave them what they wanted: power, wealth, a flowering economical system and an excuse to live out their lowest instincts of hate.

When people didn't see that Uther was insane it was simply because he wasn't insane. Or a monster, for that matter ;-)