Practically a Nazi

"'The man was practically a Nazi.' 'He stood up for his country, Veidt...never set up a company selling posters and diet books and toy soldiers based on himself...If that makes him a Nazi, you might as well call me a Nazi, too.'" (Moore 17, Chapter 1).

This interchange between Rorschach and Veidt serves as foreshadowing. Veidt calls Eddie Blake, the Comedian, "practically a Nazi," but Rorschach defends him by saying that Veidt views everyone besides himself as a Nazi. This is ironic, however, when later in the novel it turns out that Veidt is more like a Nazi than any other character. He is, in fact, almost a direct parallel to Hitler. He ends up killing millions of people, in order to make the rest of the population better, and at peace. To most this seems like a despicable act, but to Veidt and Hitler both it makes perfect sense. Veidt was trying to save the world from a massive World War that would kill more people than his experiment has. Hitler believed that, by killing the jews and anyone who was not "Aryan," he would make the world a better place; he believed these people were bad and causing the corruption of the world, and he wanted to cleanse it of corruption.