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Old 18-05-2008, 10:57 AM   #21 (permalink)
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Thanks GH. So, did Hitler get to lead a nation as big as Germany because he was a fantastic orator, the situation the German people felt post WW1 and very lucky? Or is that too simple?
Don't want to turn this into a big debate, just really interested.
Too simple I think.

He wasnt a fantastic orator, in the sense of great logical debater. His speaches are theatical performances, he was manupilative, he would engineer the meeting right down to details. Its whats called spin now. It was the whole package.

The climate had to be right I think. When things started looking a bit up in the early thirties he wasnt doing that well, not untill umployment went nuts that he started getting a bigger following.

Quite an amazing story that basically a loner down and out gets to kill 50 million people.

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