Horrible. A terrible man, but what you can't take away from him is a tremendous amount of work on himself, his presentation, his rhetoric, and his whole image of a strong leader, seasoning it all with a haze of mysticism and the "right" speeches that Germans wanted to hear at that time (who would refuse to listen to that in all his life the problems are the fault of others, whether Communists or Jews). The bar of his speeches was so high that he began to captivate the attention of millions. The state of "superhumans" was utopianly awaiting the promised. Even the obviously disastrous Beer Hall Putsch he was able to "rewrite" into his legendary epic, with martyrs, a holy relic and a place of worship.
A true inhuman evil has been embodied in the love of millions. Incapable of relationships, without compassion, completely free from emotions, filled with hatred, prejudice and a thirst for murder.
Love led to the collapse of the German worldview, the distortion of the basic concepts of good and evil. A psychopath and a criminal. They voted for him, followed him, and later died for him.
A terrible man, but what you can't take away from him is a tremendous amount of work on himself, his presentation, his rhetoric, and his whole image of a strong leader, seasoning it all with a haze of mysticism and the "right" speeches that Germans wanted to hear at that time (who would refuse to listen to that in all his life the problems are the fault of others, whether Communists or Jews). The bar of his speeches was so high that he began to captivate the attention of millions. The state of "superhumans" was utopianly awaiting the promised.
Even the obviously disastrous Beer Hall Putsch he was able to "rewrite" into his legendary epic, with martyrs, a holy relic and a place of worship.
Love led to the collapse of the German worldview, the distortion of the basic concepts of good and evil.
A psychopath and a criminal.
They voted for him, followed him, and later died for him.
A great book and (as usual) a great Lawrence Reese!
I highly recommend his previous works:
Auschwitz: the Nazis and the Last Solution / 2005
World War II: Behind Closed Doors / 2008
BBC: Nazism - a Warning to History / 1999