User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/The Civil War - Why it is great/@comment-1600847-20121031011532/@comment-5135631-20121101180015

I have read the dossier, but it lists Ulfric as an 'asset' not an agent. 'asset' is almost definetly in the context of fighting the Empire; Ulfric hates the Thalmor more than any one else. He wouldn't knowingly help the people who tortured him, banned worship of his 'favourite' god and sunk their teeth into his country's government.

As for the Iron Draugr's point, I can see where the comparison with Hitler comes from; he is seizing power. But he is not like Hitler. Just comparing the two heavily implies that Ulfric is an insecure, genocidal, evil (and I don't use the followng term loosely) psycho. Ulfric is none of these things, but he is calculating and determined, like Hitler was. But he's not a bad person, whereas Hitler was undeniably evil.

Unlike the Empire/Skyrim, Germany planned the war they lost quite meticulously, rightfully took most of the blame for starting it, used it for territorial gain and were losing from the later stages of the war (in fact, the only time they had the upper hand, on the Western front at least, was right at the start and a couple of offensives in 1917). The Empire had no wish to fight the AD, weren't ready for an attack, were defending themselves, mainly used Redguard and Cyrodilliic troops (though from what is written we can tell Nords and Bretons were utilized near the end) and made strong progress near the end, drawing it as close to a stalemate as seemed possible at the time. Therefore, Germany lost in what are considered more 'fair' (inverted commas because unlike in day-to-day life, fairness tends to generally yield less of an advnatage in war) cicrcumstances, whereas if the Empire had a real chance, they may of drawn things much closer to the wire or perhaps even won.