| | '''Reductio ad Hitlerum''', also known as '''Argumentum ad Nazium''', the '''Hitler Card''',<ref>[http://www.fallacyfiles.org/adnazium.html Logical Fallacy: The Hitler Card]</ref> and '''Hitler Ate Sugar''',<ref>[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlerAteSugar Hitler Ate Sugar]</ref> is the [[fallacy]] that, where the subject expresses views that may have been held by [[Hitler]], the subject must of the same nature as Hitler. It is an example of the [[Guilt by Association]] fallacy and is commonly found in [[liberal]] [[smear campaign]]s against [[conservative]]s.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107426,00.html Ad Comparing Bush to Hitler Gets Heat], from [[Fox News]]</ref> It is commonly used even when Hitler demonstrably did not hold the view that is being attacked, although it is fallacious even if he did. | | '''Reductio ad Hitlerum''', also known as '''Argumentum ad Nazium''', the '''Hitler Card''',<ref>[http://www.fallacyfiles.org/adnazium.html Logical Fallacy: The Hitler Card]</ref> and '''Hitler Ate Sugar''',<ref>[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HitlerAteSugar Hitler Ate Sugar]</ref> is the [[fallacy]] that, where the subject expresses views that may have been held by [[Hitler]], the subject must of the same nature as Hitler. It is an example of the [[Guilt by Association]] fallacy and is commonly found in [[liberal]] [[smear campaign]]s against [[conservative]]s.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107426,00.html Ad Comparing Bush to Hitler Gets Heat], from [[Fox News]]</ref> It is commonly used even when Hitler demonstrably did not hold the view that is being attacked, although it is fallacious even if he did. |